October 18, 2006
Mr Stan Lee
Oriole Way
Los Angeles, CA
VIA FACSIMILE
Re: Correction of False FEC Report Filed on January 30, 2006 by Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Senate Campaign Attributing $225,000 As a Personal Contribution From Stan Lee to Event 39 –
Dear Stan:
On December 19, 2005 a settlement was reached by Hillary R Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign with the FEC regarding claims I have made since July, 2001 that Senator Clinton caused false FEC reports to be filed that hid more than $1.6 million in contributions I made to her 2000 Senate campaign.
As part of that settlement, an admission was filed with the Federal Election Commission by Hillary Clinton’s campaign treasurer, Andrew Grossman, and New York Senate 2000, that more than $721,000 of contributions I made to Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign were in fact hidden in three false reports it filed with the Senate and the FEC since October, 2000. As required by that settlement, on January 30, 2006, NY Senate 2000 filed an amended fourth report with the FEC purporting to truthfully detail all of the contributions made in connection with Event 39, the largest fundraising event of Senator Clinton’s 2000 campaign. (You may see these reports linked to www.hillcap.org Document Page)
Incredibly, Senator Clinton’s latest FEC report has misrepresented for a fourth time my contributions! This time, you have been cited on Page 23 of Schedule H-4 (attached) as the personal contributor of $225,000 towards “Concert Expenses†(of more than $600,000) in Event 39, the “Hollywood Gala Farewell Tribute to President Clinton†that you hosted with me in Brentwood on August 12, 2000.
An earlier, unamended report by Hillary Clinton’s campaign made to the FEC on June 30, 2000, also attributes an additional $4,000 as contributed by you and Joan - $2000 each- (in connection with the Spago VIP Luncheon of June 9, 2000 that you co-hosted with me). As you recall, this $4000 was reimbursed to you on June 29, 2000 by my agent Aaron Tonken, with funds I gave him for that purpose.
In order to finally correct what has become a five and one half year marathon election law fraud by Hillary Clinton on the voters, on me, and now on you, it is time the issue of whether you gave any money whatsoever to Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign, or to the DNC in 2000, be formally resolved.
You have stated under oath in your deposition for me on February 23, 2005, that you made no contribution whatsoever to Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign in connection with Event 39.
On page 66 of the official transcript from that deposition you are quoted as follows:
“ Q. (To Stan Lee). …And is it your understanding that you
didn’t contribute anything … anything for (Event 39)?
A. (By Stan Lee) I didn’t contribute anything.
In an article in World Net Daily dated April 26, 2006, regarding the January 30, 2006 FEC report by Hillary Clinton’s campaign committee, you are quoted as follows:
“Lee, reached recently … by independent reporter, Douglas Cogan, expressed surprise when told of the declaration. (the amended FEC report filed January 30, 2006 attributing a $225,000 personal contribution to Stan Lee).
Lee told Cogan he made it absolutely clear to the FEC, the Justice Department and the FBI that he didn’t give a single penny to Sen. Clinton’s campaign.
Lee said he did make a loan to Paul and agreed to switch checks of $100,000, but certainly did not make a donation. (Emphasis added)
In his Feb. 23, 2005, deposition in Paul’s bankruptcy case against celebrity fund-raiser Aaron Tonken, Lee testified, “I never had a hundred thousand dollars to donate to anybody.”
Commencing in August, 2000, Hillary Clinton began making false reports to the public about your alleged $100,000 contribution. Speaking through her official spokesman, Howard Wolfson, she was quoted in the Washington Post on August 17, 2000:
“Wolfson said Stan Lee donated $100,000 to cover some expenses for the event. As for the rest of the estimated $1 million-plus cost, “it was an in-kind contribution . . . and not a check,” Wolfson said.â€ÂÂ
The same $100,000 was referred to by CNN on September 21, 2000, in an article Hillary Clinton bags $1 million in soft money in August. Under a headline “Donor List Includes Comic Legendâ€ÂÂ, Jim Brewer reported,
“ And Stan Lee Media, led by the longtime Marvel Comics chief and Spider Man creator gave $100,000.â€ÂÂ
This $100,000 was also reported as being contributed by you in three successive false FEC reports made by New York Senate 2000, the authorized representative of a joint fund raising committee including the Hillary Rodham Clinton for Senate Committee, and in responses by both Hillary Clinton’s counsel and New York Senate 2000’s counsel to inquiries made by the FEC in September, 2001.
This $100,000 clearly refers to the $100,000 that you have sworn was borrowed from Stan Lee Media, at my direction and request, on July 28, 2000, and presented to David Rosen as an agent for New York Senate 2000, resulting in New York Senate 2000, on that very same date, presenting its check for the identical amount of $100,000, to Gary Smith for his production services for Event 39. This was done to make it appear that New York Senate 2000 was paying some expenses for Event 39.
This same $100,000 was represented in correspondence July 30, 2001, between by New York Senate 2000 and FEC officials as a payment made by New York Senate 2000 of hard dollars towards Event 39, when it was really the same $100,000 soft money contribution I asked you to make on my behalf in your name to Hillary Clinton’s campaign as a first payment for the production services of Grammy’s producer Gary Smith, Hillary Clinton’s choice of producers for the concert segment of Event 39.
You confirmed this fact in your sworn deposition of February 23, 2005, on page 77, that this $100,000:
“has to be the check that I gave Peter..for which I received one immediately in return.†You were referring to our exchange of checks on November 8, 2000, when Rick Madden, General Counsel of Stan Lee Media , requested that you personally repay the loan from Stan Lee Media represented by the $100,000 check dated July 28, 2000 to New York Senate 2000 from the Stan Lee Media account. The exchange of checks you were referring to was your receipt of my check made to you for $100,000 on November 8, 2000, drawn on my holding company Excelsior Productions Inc, and your delivery to me of your personal check for $100,000 made payable to Stan Lee Media Inc as the personal loan repayment from you. You never made any check to me personally or through my holding company for $100,000, as you mistakenly stated through your attorney, because you used my Excelsior check to cover your loan repayment to Stan Lee Media.
Also, as a result of the FEC investigation that led to the settlement agreement in which New York Senate does not deny violating the Federal Election law by filing three false FEC reports which hid more than $721,000 of my contributions, it filed a fourth FEC report on January 30, 2006, in which our former company, Stan Lee Media has suddenly been omitted entirely as a contributor of any money, contrary to the false attributions that were made in the three FEC reports for the preceding five years. Your $100,000 “contribution†check to New York Senate 2000, referred to by Wolfson, has also been omitted .
Now Hillary Clinton’s campaign reporting committee has reported that you personally provided “in kind†cash contributions of $225,000 toward Grammy’s producer Gary Smith’s concert production fees and expenses of Event 39.
Based on your statements under oath in your deposition and to federal investigators, there seems to be a serious contradiction in the facts as presented by you and this latest false attribution made by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to the FEC on January 30, 2006.
Until this contradiction is resolved, I am unable to proceed to demand refund of the total expenditures I made to benefit Hillary’s campaign, at Hillary and Bill Clinton’s direction and insistence, which exceeded my statutory limit with respect to any candidate for election to a Federal office, which have now finally been reported in the same fourth false FEC report filed on January 30, 2006, as in-kind contributions of $839,000 from my holding companies Paraversal and Excelsior.
You should be aware that unless and until you notify the Hillary Clinton campaign, New York Senate 2000, and the FEC , that this latest FEC report filed by Clinton’s campaign is false, and you demand a correction to reconcile the facts you stated in your sworn deposition and in statements to government investigators and the media “that (you) didn’t give a single penny to Sen. Clinton’s campaign.â€ÂÂ, with the attribution by Hillary Clinton’s campaign in her latest false FEC report, e.g. that you contributed $225,000 to her campaign, you are in violation of Title 2 of the US Code, Sec 441f. Until you ensure a correction has been filed with the FEC, you are permitting your name to be used by Hillary Clinton to hide a $225,000 contribution, that was in fact made by me. You are also helping and assisting Hillary Clinton to knowingly accept my contribution made in your name in violation of 11 CFR Sec 110.4(b)(iii)
Your admission that you agreed to switch $100,000 checks with me, at my request, so that it would appear that you contributed to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in August, 2000, is also a violation of Sec 441(f) and Sec 437g(d)(1)(A)&(D) of Title 2 of the United States Code. While our actions from August – November, 2000 should be covered by the statute of limitations for government prosecution, the continuing FEC fraud being perpetrated by Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the latest false FEC report regarding your alleged contribution could possibly have the effect of extending the enforceability of that statute, affecting us both.
For the above reasons it is critical that you take action immediately to remedy the discrepancy that now exists between your sworn statements that you made no contribution whatsoever to Hillary’s campaign, or any other campaign, in 2000, and the official FEC reports filed by the New York Senate 2000 campaign on behalf of Hillary’s Senate campaign committee.
I therefore request that you forthwith notify Senator Hillary R Clinton, New York Senate 2000, its Treasurer Andrew Grossman, and the FEC, that you protest the false reporting made in the January 30, 2006 FEC Amended Quarterly Report of NY Senate 2000 that you personally contributed $225,000 for concert expenses for Event 39, the Hollywood Farewell Gala Tribute to President Clinton, and that you demand an immediate correction of that false FEC report.
Because you have been quoted as being on notice since April 25, 2006 of the false attribution to you of $225,000 in contributions to Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign through New York Senate 2000, your failure to notify the Federal Election Commission and the principals in the Hillary Rodham Clinton for Senate campaign committee regarding the sworn testimony you have given, contradicting New York Senate 2000’s FEC report, could subject you to the penalties provided under the law relating to the illegal use of your name to hide contributions you did not make. Your failure or refusal to act to correct this matter will require me to review your sworn deposition to determine if statements you made there are inconsistent with the facst that you have permitted to be placed in official federal reports.
Very Truly
Peter F Paul
c/o UNITED STATES JUSTICE FOUNDATION
932 “D†Street, Suite 3
Ramona, California 92065
tel: (760) 788-6624
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