posted April 10, 2006 07:56 PM            

Posted: April 8, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Art Moore
WorldNetDaily.com

President Bill Clinton celebrating business deal with Peter Paul and wife Andrea (Courtesy Hillcap.org)
A judge in Los Angeles yesterday dismissed Sen. Hillary Clinton from a lawsuit by business mogul Peter Franklin Paul that alleges her husband, former President Bill Clinton, reneged on a $17 million business deal.

President Clinton however, remains a defendant and will be subpoenaed early next week to testify in a deposition. A trial date has been set, and Paul plans to depose Sen. Clinton as well.

Represented by the public-interest law firm U.S. Justice Foundation, Paul claims Bill Clinton agreed to promote Paul's Internet businesses after leaving office in exchange for his financial backing of a Hollywood gala and fund-raiser for Sen. Clinton's Senate campaign in 2000.

Paul charges President Clinton caused one of his public companies to collapse by diverting his Japanese partner's investments.

California Superior Court Judge Aurelio N. Munoz yesterday granted Sen. Clinton her motion to be dismissed from the case based on the state's anti-SLAPP law, which protects politicians from frivolous lawsuits.

As WorldNetDaily reported, Paul, claiming Sen. Clinton pulled off the biggest campaign-finance fraud in history, separately is preparing to file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission charging the Democratic senator with submitting a false report – for a fourth time – that hides his personal donation of a multi-million dollar Hollywood gala and fund-raiser that helped put her in office.

Just days after the gala, Sen. Clinton suddenly moved to distance herself from her major donor when the Washington Post splashed reports of Paul's 1970s criminal convictions in a story that accused the senator of being soft on crime.

Paul insists Clinton's new amended report finally acknowledged his contributions but falsely classified them as being from his companies and from his business partner, Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee, instead of from him as personal gifts. Clinton should have refunded the money according to federal law, he contends, because it was intended for her national senatorial campaign, and the limit for such donations is $25,000.

Clinton's Senate office has not followed up WND's request to respond to Paul's claims.

Yesterday, Judge Munoz said Paul did not present enough evidence that Sen. Clinton was involved in the alleged business fraud.

USJF attorney Gary Kreep told WND he believed it was unreasonable for the judge to dismiss Sen. Clinton without first taking her deposition.

"How can you prove your case if you can't take any discovery?" Kreep asked. "If you're not allowed to do any discovery and the judge says all you have are allegations and no proof, it's a circular argument."

Munoz, however, ruled Clinton attorney David Kendall could not deny Paul any witnesses as the case proceeds, and Sen. Clinton likely will be deposed as a material witness.

Commenting on the decision to dismiss Sen. Clinton as a defendant, Paul told WND, "California's anti-SLAPP law creates the absurd situation where a candidate is protected in defrauding business people in order to finance a political campaign."

Paul insists the broadness of the protection of political speech must be challenged.

"What better case to bring before the U.S. Supreme Court than Hillary's admitted fraud on the FEC and on the voters and on my business," he said.

Meanwhile, a trial is set for March 27, 2007, and depositions will begin immediately. Also named in the case are Sen. Clinton's former campaign finance director David Rosen, Hollywood gala host Gary Smith and James Levin, an aide to President Clinton involved in the business deal.

Kreep told WND he will send out a formal notice early next week to have President Clinton deposed.

President Clinton cannot object to it, because he is a party to the case, Kreep said, but he expects delays.

At the hearing, Kendall indicated he will file a summary judgment to dismiss the case, arguing President Clinton's contract with Paul was void because of public policy considerations.

Kendall did not specify the considerations.

Kreep questioned Kendall's claim.

"[Bill Clinton] got Peter Paul to spend all this money on Hillary Clinton's campaign, he destroyed Peter's company, but he's not liable because the contract was not valid to begin with?"

Paul alleges he discussed President Clinton's future employment with Sen. Clinton on numerous occasions, at two fund-raising teas, the Hollywood gala and at entertainer Barbra Streisand's house the next day.

In her declaration, Sen. Clinton acknowledged spending time with Paul on each of those occasions, but said if there was any discussion of her husband's employment with Paul, she would have remembered it.

Paul told WND, "Mrs. Clinton has a history of memory lapses in the multiple investigations in which she's been called to testify."

"I'm looking forward for discovery to refresh Mrs. Clinton's recollection," he said. "She engaged in actions that are clear in terms of her role in assuring me that Bill Clinton would work with me."

Paul stated in his declaration to the court, "Mrs. Clinton personally assured me she would specifically discuss with her husband, the President, my interest in making a post-White House business proposal to him. She told me her understanding that such a proposal would include my offer of substantial support for her Senate campaign as a good-faith advance on the business arrangement he would be agreeing to."

posted April 10, 2006 11:34 PM            

By JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
April 10, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO - A California judge has dismissed Senator Clinton as a defendant in a long-running lawsuit brought by the underwriter of a major fund-raising gala for her 2000 campaign.

During an hour-long hearing Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Judge Aurelio Munoz granted Mrs. Clinton's motion to be dismissed from the case, in which a former Internet entrepreneur, Peter Paul, accuses the senator, President Clinton, and several associates of fraud.

Paul, who has four felony convictions, contends he spent $2 million to stage the August 12, 2000, fund-raiser, which featured performances by Cher, Patti LaBelle, and Michael Bolton. According to Paul, he offered the money as part of an agreement that after Mr. Clinton left office, he would work for Paul's animation company, Stan Lee Media.

Paul has also asserted that a Democratic fund-raiser close to Mr. Clinton, James Levin, helped cause the demise of Stan Lee Media by stealing a key business contact cultivated by Paul.

In his ruling Friday, Judge Munoz complained that Paul's legal team "inundated this court" with photos of Paul with the Clintons, President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, and others.

Paul "has failed to direct this court to any matters indicating Mrs. Clinton made any promises to him," the judge wrote. "The most he can show is that promises were made by other people and those promises were never performed. Even assuming plaintiff can show the promises were with the intent not to perform, there is nothing to indicate Hillary Clinton was aware that the promises were not made in good faith."

Mrs. Clinton sought dismissal of the case under a California law that allows lawsuits involving protected First Amendment activities to be thrown out at a preliminary stage.

Attorneys from a conservative group representing Paul, the United States Justice Foundation, asked that they be permitted to take Mrs. Clinton's deposition before she was dismissed, but Judge Munoz refused.

While the senator was dismissed as a party to the suit, the lawsuit is expected to continue with Messrs. Clinton and Levin as defendants, as well as two producers of the gala, Aaron Tonken and Gary Smith. Judge Munoz set a trial date of March 27, 2007.

An attorney for Paul, Colette Wilson, said in an interview yesterday that Mrs. Clinton will still be called for a deposition as a witness in the case. Ms. Wilson said Judge Munoz indicated that any attempt to prevent Mrs. Clinton from being deposed would be "dead on arrival."

Ms. Wilson said Paul is likely to appeal the dismissal of Mrs. Clinton, though such an appeal runs the risk that Paul would be required to pay the senator's legal fees. "What Hillary was doing was trying to persuade him she was highly interested in his entering into a business deal with her husband," Ms. Wilson said. "At the actual gala, they talked about it."

A longtime personal attorney to the Clintons, David Kendall, attended Friday's hearing and told the judge that many of Paul's claims were untrue "whoppers." Mr. Kendall declined to comment for this article.

In a declaration filed with the court last week, Mrs. Clinton said she remembered Paul from the gala, but did not recall any business proposals. "I have no recollection whatsoever of discussing any arrangement with him whereby he would support my campaign for the United States Senate in exchange for anything from me or then-President Clinton, and I do not believe that I made any such statements because I believe I would remember such a discussion if it had occurred," she wrote.

The star-studded gala in the Los Angeles hills delivered more than $1 million to committees backing Mrs. Clinton's Senate bid, but the event came at the price of a nasty and protracted hangover for the first lady and her aides. Days after the dinner and concert, the Washington Post reported that Paul had three criminal convictions on fraud and drug charges years earlier.

Paul's publicly traded company soon ran into financial trouble and he departed for Brazil. He was indicted for stock fraud and spent more than two years in a dungeon-like Brazilian prison before being extradited to America, where he pleaded guilty to a securities charge last year. He is awaiting sentencing.

Separately, a top fund-raising official on Mrs. Clinton's campaign, David Rosen, was indicted in 2003 on charges that he caused the filing of false campaign finance reports about the Los Angeles gala. Prosecutors said Mr. Rosen knew the reports seriously understated Paul's spending on the event by more than $1 million, but, after a three-week trial last year, a jury acquitted the Democratic fund-raising professional of all charges.

In addition, Mr. Levin has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges related to minority contracting fraud in Chicago.

Late last year, a fund-raising committee for Mrs. Clinton's Senate bid agreed to pay a $35,000 penalty to settle charges the group underreported in-kind gifts for the gala by $700,000.The committee recently amended its filings, but Paul has said the campaign is still refusing to acknowledge that the bulk of the money for the gala came from him.

The new court ruling was first reported Saturday by a conservative Web site, WorldNetDaily.com.
http://www.nysun.com/article/30698
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Tough to find that story today. Seems no one wants to cover it.

posted April 11, 2006 12:40 AM              

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Represented by the public-interest law firm U.S. Justice Foundation, Paul claims........

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posted April 11, 2006 01:06 AM            

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Paul, who has four felony convictions

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This isn't the only publication who has noticed this.

Petron's also right, though he didn't need to go to USJF's site to realize that.

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Attorneys from a conservative group representing Paul, the United States Justice Foundation, asked that they be permitted to take Mrs. Clinton's deposition before she was dismissed, but Judge Munoz refused.

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This is also well-documented in the scant media reports on this.

posted April 11, 2006 01:17 AM              

Peter Paul was a lawyer in Miami, Florida, representing foreign governments and political leaders in South America and the Caribbean. He also served as President of the Miami World Trade Center[3] and was the original owner and operator of the largest Foreign Trade Zone in the U.S., Miami Free Zone Inc.[2] As a result of what Paul described as anti-Communist and anti-Castro political activities[4], he directed a fraud on the Cuban government of $8.75 million dollars by selling agents of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro nonexistant coffee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_F._Paul

The Cuban Coffee Caper
Feb. 12, 1979

posted April 11, 2006 11:27 AM            

Seems there was supposed to be a quid pro quo for his fund raising activities and direct contributions but Commander Corruption reneged on the deal.

Oh dear, the NY Times didn't report this story so to leftists, it must not be happening. Reporting it from WND makes the whole story about the trial....suspect

Well, the 2000 election proved one thing for sure. Felons vote 87% democrat...so said the Miami Herald which reviewed the illegal felon vote in Florida and broke the numbers out. Felons, one of the most important democrat constituent groups along with illegal aliens and the dead.

posted April 11, 2006 11:49 AM            

Of course, Hillary really needed the Puerto Rican vote to win her Senate seat so that was understandable

And the Clinton's really needed that money from Rich's wife...so that was understandable too

For the story behind the story...

Tuesday, June 12, 2001 6:40 p.m. EDT

Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign accepted $2 million in unreported "direct and in-kind" contributions from a man who says he was also solicited for cash in exchange for a presidential pardon from her husband, a Washington, D.C.-based public interest law firm charged Tuesday.

Judical Watch went public with the new allegations based on the account of international businessman Peter Paul, who has been a client of the legal watchdog group since early this year.

Mr. Paul has produced canceled checks for donations he made to Mrs. Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign as well as personal thank-you notes from all three members of the former first family.

The money went to finance an August 12 Hillary 2000 fund-raiser headlined "A Hollywood Tribute to Bill Clinton," which was attended by Barbra Streisand, Brad Pitt, John Travolta, Cher and others, Judicial Watch said.

Paul also alleges that when he sought a pardon from the ex-president for two prior fraud convictions, he was solicited for $150,000 by former Democratic National Committee Chairman Ed Rendell.

"Paul asked for the pardon through an intermediary," Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman told NewsMax.com. "Then Rendell called and asked for the the $150,000."

Paul's previous convictions were related to activities he had undertaken against Castro's government in Cuba, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.

"The Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney's offices would have never known about these allegations if Peter Paul and Judicial Watch had not come forward," Klayman stressed.

The Judicial Watch chairman said Paul has been cooperating with the Bush Justice Department since late January 2001, offering new evidence against the Clintons that he described as clear cut and compelling.

Last Friday, Mr. Paul was indicted for improper securities transactions, but is cooperating with prosecutors in a wide-ranging probe that involves U.S. Attorney's offices in New York, New Jersey and California, Klayman said.

Both the New York Times and ABC News are said to have interviewed the Clinton accuser for upcoming reports on his charges against the former first couple.
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/2clinton.htm

posted April 11, 2006 02:20 PM            

A trial date has been set after the Clintons managed to stall the case for all these years. I would say it is coming to a head.

Further, it will be interesting to see what the depositions of Bill and Hill reveal.

I wonder if Commander Corruption will perjure himself in this civil case as he did in the Paula Jones case. That one cost CC a $96,000 fine and loss of his license to practice law.

Hill will undoubtedly not be able to remember...as she was unable to remember 250 times to questions before Congressional Committees investigating various aspects of the Clinton corruption.

Which brings me to the next point.

posted April 12, 2006 05:51 PM              

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what the hell were Bill and Hillary Clinton doing consorting with a four time convicted felon while they were in the White House..later renamed the House of Ill Repute because of the Clinton's corruption.

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House of ill repute you say?

Boy are you ever on to something....lookee here....

V.P. GEORGE H.W. BUSH CAUGHT IN WASH. D.C. POLICE PEDOPHILE STING RAID JUN. 29, 1989 SEE WASHINGTON TIMES REPORT

Washington D.C. Police Pedophile Sting Raid
Catches Vice President Bush and President Reagan

"One former top-level Pentagon officer said that for the past eight years, military and civilian intelligence authorities have been concerned that "a nest of homosexuals" at top levels of the Reagan Administration may have been penetrated by Soviet backed espionage agents posing as male prostitutes, said one former Pentagon official."
- Washington Times, June 29, 1989

ThiS BANNED EDITION OF THE WASHINGTON TIMES WAS DESTROYED EN MASSE BY VICE-PRESIDENT GEORGE H. W. BUSH. THIS TURNED OUT TO BE NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT REPORTS STARTED TO SIFT OUT THAT VICE-PRESIDENT BUSH WAS A KNOWN PEDOPHILE!

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Then there always Jeff Gannon....Remember him?

The now-notorious Gannon, a well-known American homosexual pornographer and also a close worker with the Republicans in the White House, is revealing everything about the powerful ring of homosexuals that now are controlling the President Bush.

Gannon, made many secret tape recordings while he was a "front" reporter for the right-wing Republicans at the White House. These tapes, which clearly show the influence of powerful perverts inside the most advanced of the American political circles, were made secretly by Gannon over a two year period.

With the assistance of a literary agent, Gannon has offered these most revealing and very private conversations, to a Russian publishing company's offices in Malaysia and it is confidentially stated that a very dynamic and revealing book will be produced in the coming future!

Gannon claims intimate connections with not only Mr. Bush himself but also with top leaders in the Republican party and most especially acting as a connection with the very powerful and controlling American Christian militant organizations. He claims that several very famous Christian leaders are also homosexual and that these work together with others in high political circles!

Our reporter advises us that both Russian and English language editions of this book will be printed and this promises to be the important study of the true and inner workings of the leadership of the American government!

http://www.geocities.com/bushgaygate2/

Yup! Lotsa "ill repute" in that ole white house....

posted April 12, 2006 05:55 PM              

feisty Rainbow

posted April 12, 2006 08:35 PM            

Yep... that's brilliant.

And why the gay angle? If there was any pedophilia there would have been serious arrests and court cases.. but you seem to enjoy posting something that may indicate Bush is a homosexual.

posted April 12, 2006 11:06 PM              

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Do you have something against homosexuals Rainbow? It sure seems like that and well... that is FREAKING offensive.

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Trying to 'bait me,' Pid???

You know damn well I'm not against homosexuals, since you posted right under MY post on the THREAD Thorshammer started about the ugly treatment of a lesbian and his anger by it.

You had to have read what I said, since your post was right under mine...so don't even try to go in that direction.....

NO! It's not the homosexuality that I'm against, but the HYPOCRISY...the sneaky cover up...but that's no surprise coming from the bushman....

LMAO at your question meant to act like you actually thought I was against homosexuals and your supposed "offense" by it....

posted April 13, 2006 02:34 PM              

Do you think you will ever get over this fixation that you seem to have on Bill and Hillary Clinton?

Petron and rainbow you guys crack me up.

I noticed how fast that homosexual scandal in Bush's White House was squelched in the media. Most likely by the White House's Mafia style intimidation and threat tactics.

This is a new bumper sticker saying I have seen:

Would Someone Please Give Bush A ....Job So We Can Get Him Impeached.

posted April 13, 2006 10:47 PM              

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So you post something that doesn't actually exist, without proof and call it good?

Yep... that's brilliant.

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In the first place, I don't recall that I ever posted anything and then called it "good." (What in god's name are you talking about, woman?}

...and it would appear that you were referring to the thing I posted about Bush Sr. and Reagon and the male prostititutes in the white house....

(I'm really getting good at this graphics stuff to make up something like the above)

......as well as the "fake" white house reporter Jeff Gannon who turned out to be also a prostitute of the gay persuasion....

....and how did you come to the brilliant conclusion that I posted something that "didn't exist?"

You saw the HEADLINE with your own eyes...and yet deny it exists....

You saw the pictures of Jeff Gannon and the revelation of who he REALLY is, and then try and tell me that that situations "doesn't exist" either???

TALK ABOUT DENIAL....sheese....

posted April 14, 2006 01:16 AM              

People are catching on, I'd say...

posted April 14, 2006 10:04 AM            

I have an unpopular neighbor. No one in the neighborhood likes him. His dogs bark at night which wakes everyone up and he has loud parties till way past midnight and he just doesn't seem to give a rats ass that he's disturbing the peace and quiet of the neighborhood.

We always thought he was unpopular because he annoyed the hell out of all of us.

I'll bring your theory up the next time his name comes up. Could it be our unpopular neighbor is unpopular because he's "corrupt"?

posted April 14, 2006 12:10 PM              

"...birds of a feather...." they say....Yup! That's what they say....

CORRUPTION PERSONIFIED!