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Partying With Dems Is Trouble?

Mike

Well-known member
Accused Financier Under Federal Drug Investigation (Partied with Pelosi & Clinton in Denver)
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6907429&page=1 ^


The SEC's fraud charges may be the least of accused financial scammer R. Allen Stanford's worries. Federal authorities tell ABC News that FBI and others have been investigating whether Stanford was involved in laundering drug money for Mexico's notorious Gulf Cartel.

Authorities tell ABC News that as part of the investigation, which has been ongoing since last year, Mexican authorities detained one of Stanford's private planes. According to officials, checks found inside the plane were believed to be connected to the Gulf cartel, reputed to be Mexico's most violent gang. Authorities say Stanford could potentially face criminal charges of money laundering and bribery of foreign officials.

Authorities say the SEC action against Stanford Tuesday may have complicated the federal drug investigation.

The federal investigation, however, did not stop Stanford from using corporate money to become a big man at last year's Democratic convention in Denver.

A video posted on the firm's web-site shows Stanford, now sought by U.S. Marshals, being hugged by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and praised by former President Bill Clinton for helping to finance a convention-related forum and party put on by the National Democratic Institute.
 
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Anonymous

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Mike said:
A video posted on the firm's web-site shows Stanford, now sought by U.S. Marshals, being hugged by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and praised by former President Bill Clinton for helping to finance a convention-related forum and party put on by the National Democratic Institute.

As details poured out about the illegal and unseemly activities of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, White House officials sought to portray the scandal as a Capitol Hill affair with little relevance to them. Peppered for days with questions about Abramoff's visits to the White House, press secretary Scott McClellan said the now disgraced lobbyist had attended two huge holiday receptions and a few "staff-level meetings" that were not worth describing further. "The President does not know him, nor does the President recall ever meeting him," McClellan said.

The President's memory may soon be unhappily refreshed. TIME has seen five photographs of Abramoff and the President that suggest a level of contact between them that Bush's aides have downplayed.


Repubs have a short memory to be casting too many stones...Remember one of the top donators to GW's campaign (that GW said he hadn't ever met until this picture and several others was released), and financier for such top Repubs as GW, Tom Delay, Conman Burns, Congressman Bob Ney, etc. etc.- along with donating a little to every person in D.C- either party...

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Convicted Lobbyiest Jack Abramoff and GW
 

Mike

Well-known member
I can cast all the stones I want. It's a new day and..........in case you didn't know...........Bush is no longer in office. Nancy is. :lol: :lol:

You're much too easy. :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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