Peter Paul

Hillary's hubris has struck yet again! Hillary and Bill scandal lawyer and legal dissembler David Kendall has been replaced by a new legal face in misleading the media about Hillary's million dollar campaign finance fraud. Marc Elias is the latest officer of the court designated to respond to media requests to Hillary.

Once again Senator Clinton is hiding behind a spokesman to make deceptive comments concerning the more than $1. 2 million contributed by me personally to Hillary's 2000 Senate campaign. This continues the deceptions began by Hillary spokesman Howard Wolfson who deceived the Washington Post twice about my contribution just days after the Gala in August, 2000.

Hillary's joint fundraising committee, New York Senate 2000 and its treasurer Andrew Grossman have just agreed with the FEC finding of probable cause that Grossman filed false reports with the FEC hiding more than $720, 000 of my contributions, in vioilation of the Federal Election Act. Grossman's signing of a Conciliation Agreement on December 13, 2005, agreeing to pay a fine and to correct the three false FEC returns he filed, constituted a de facto "nolo contendere" plea to the FEC's civil indictment for the same offense that Grossman's underling, David Rosen, was criminally indicted and tried by the US Justice Department in May, 2005.

Hillary lawyer Marc Elias issued the following statement to the media quoting from the letter the FEC sent to Paul on December 29, 2005, attaching the Conciliation Agreement signed by Grossman. Lawyer Elias says:

"This [conciliation]agreement makes clear that there was no violation of federal election law by the Hillary Rodham Clinton for Senate Committee in connection with the August 13, 2000 event. This follows the letter from the FEC stating that there was no violation of law by Senator Clinton ... The civil payment assessed to New York Senate 2000 resolves the question of underreported in-kind contributions, and there will be no further action on this matter."

As the recipient of the FEC letter quoted by Attorney Elias, I should be in the best position to offer the true meaning of its key phrases, which conflict with the Clinton lexicon meaning of those phrases. Just as "is" has a meaning unique to the Clintons and distinct from Webster's definition, so do the phrases "there was no violation of law by Senator Clinton" , "The civil payment assessed.. resolves the question of underreported contributions" and..."there will be no further action on this matter" have a unique meaning in Clinton-speak.

The December 29, 2005 cover letter regarding FEC violations commited by Senator Clinton's senate campaign was intended to advise me, as the complainant to the FEC, of the results of its 4 1/2 year investigation into my complaint. this is a procedure the FEC follows prior to publication of its findings to the public. The New York Sun got wind of it and forced the letter's release before the FEC publishes its report in February.

The letter confirms that the Commission found probable cause that Hillary's joint fundraising committee broke the Federal election laws regarding my $1.2 million plus contributions, and that a settlement has been reached with the Clinton campaign in the form of a Conciliation Agreement dated December 13, 2005, which was attached to the letter.

Since the FEC only has civil jurisdiction over the respondents I complained of ( President Clinton, DNC Chair Ed Rendell, Senator Hillary Clinton, et al) its finding only extended to the official actions of Hillary's campaign treasurer, Andrew Grossman, who was the person who had the legal responsibility under FEC regulations, to accurately account for contributions and expenses. Only Grossman signed and submitted the three false FEC reports on Hillary's behalf, as treasurer of Hillary's campaign.

The official statement prepared and distributed to the media by Mr Elias, that the FEC found "there was no violation of law by Senator Clinton" is deceptive and completely misleading because the FEC can make no legal determination regarding violations of federal criminal statutes under Title 18 of the United States Code. Nor does the FEC letter make any effort to exonerate Senator Clinton from any and all violations of the law aside from Title 2 of the U.S. Code.

The letter addressed to me simply says that

"Regarding the other respondents [including Senator Clinton] the Commission found no reason to believe they violated the Act or Commission regulations in connection with this matter"

Any layman without legal training can deduce that the plain English of the FEC's statement could never be interpreted to mean what Hillary's lawyer stated definitively. Unfortunately, these statements made by Hillary spokesmen, especially those with law degrees, are never vetted or contested by the media.

When David Kendall told the press that "most of the allegations of Paul's civil complaint have been thrown out, and the remaining ones are meritless", he meant that through his manipulation of the judicial process since my first complaint was filed in June, 2001, he was able to have certain counts dismissed because of the statute of limitations lapsing. The remaining substantive counts for fraud, coercion and conspiracy that were meritless to Mr Kendall, were nevertheless held to have sufficient merit to the California Supreme Court that they denied Kendall's appeals and allowed the landmark suit to proceed against a President and Senator.

Similarly, when David Kendall assured the media for four years that the New York Senate 2000 FEC filings were "correct", he clearly meant that the fraud they perpetuated would continue until they were forced to be corrected by a governmental agency.

Thus, Mr Elias is now joining Mr Kendall in presenting Clinton-speak legal assessments for the media. His statement that "there will be no further action on this matter" must mean that until the august parties who are accountable for inducing, covering up, misreporting and then obstructing the federal investigation into the million dollar plus campaign finance fraud (that Mr Grossman has alone admitted to) are exposed under oath in the civil suit now pending, and finally indicted, then they will continue to deny and stonewall the truth until hell freezes over.