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Hillary Clinton Accuser Claims New Evidence of Fraud in Documentary
Friday, October 26, 2007
WASHINGTON - One gift that Hillary Clinton is unlikely to enjoy on her 60th
birthday Friday is the premiere of "Hillary Uncensored," a scathing
documentary whose 13-minute trailer has been No. 1 on Google Video since
Oct. 10, with more than 1.1 million views to date.
The film's first full-length showing is scheduled for Friday night at
Harvard University, followed by viewings at universities through the weekend
and a wrap Tuesday at the Metropolitan Club in New York City.
Among the allegations summarized in the documentary:
- Bill and Hillary Clinton solicited cash from Peter F. Paul, an
international lawyer and businessman, even after Hillary Clinton's campaign
manager told The Washington Post she would not take money from him;
- FBI agents and U.S. attorneys colluded with the Clintons to keep Paul, who
was convicted of cocaine possession and fraud, tangled up in the criminal
courts for years;
- The Clintons later made sure Paul was kept in a Brazilian prison for 25
months, including 58 days in a maximum security cellblock nicknamed the
"Corridor of Death," while the Justice Department waited to extradite him;
- Hillary Clinton still hasn't filed reports to the FEC enumerating Paul's
excessive contributions to her 2000 Senate campaign.
Click here to see the trailer video posted on YouTube (part 1).
Click here to see the trailer video posted on YouTube (part 2)
Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign spares no kindness about its
view of Paul, whose long arrest record, officials say, demonstrates his
inherent deceit.
"Peter Paul is a professional liar who has four separate criminal
convictions, two for fraud. His video repackages a series of seven-year-old
false claims about Senator Clinton that have already been rejected by the
California state courts, the Justice Department, the Federal Election
Commission and the Senate Ethics Committee," Clinton's campaign said in a
statement to FOXNews.com.
While it's a coincidence that the film about the New York senator and
Democratic presidential candidate is being released on her birthday, the
movie's producers say it is no accident the film's trailer is getting such
attention.
Douglas Cogan, a businessman-turned-associate producer and researcher for
the film, said he's made it his mission to expose what he calls "the
greatest campaign finance fraud that ever has been committed."
The Clintons think "they are truly above the law," Cogan said. "My country
has never seen anyone like Hillary Rodham Clinton."
The allegations in the film are not new, although much of the video is. The
film resurrects claims made by the thrice-convicted Paul that he unwittingly
agreed to violate election-funding laws in exchange for a pledge from Bill
Clinton to work with him in his new venture, Stan Lee Media, after Clinton
left the presidency.
The documentary revisits Paul's claim that, in exchange for Bill Clinton's
promise to promote Stan Lee Media overseas, for which Paul said he was
willing to pay $17 million, he also agreed to produce an August 2000
fundraising gala in Hollywood for Hillary Clinton's 2000 New York Senate
campaign.
"My interest in supporting Hillary Clinton was specifically to hire Bill
Clinton," Paul told FOXNews.com in a telephone interview, noting that
Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign "concocted" the whole idea of the fundraiser.
Paul said he believed that in exchange for organizing the gala, "I had
accomplished the hiring of the president of the United States to work with
me when he left the White House."
The gala cost $1.2 million, which was under-reported to the Federal Election
Commission and led to the arrest of Clinton's then-Senate campaign
fundraising chief, David Rosen.
Rosen was found not guilty; a co-host of the gala, Aaron Tonken, was
sentenced in a separate case to more than five years in prison for
misappropriating funds for charity to pay for fundraisers featuring
Hollywood celebrities.
Paul never got to work with Bill Clinton. Stan Lee Media filed for Chapter
11 bankruptcy in February 2001, long after it became apparent to Paul that
Clinton wasn't going to join the company and, Paul alleges, had stolen one
of Stan Lee Media's chief investors.
Paul writes off his convictions in the 1970s for cocaine possession and
defrauding Fidel Castro of $8.7 million as part of an international
anti-Castro effort gone wrong. He adds that the securities fraud plea that
he agreed to cop in March 2005 was to get out of jail after 43 months in
Brazilian and New York prisons. He still is awaiting sentencing on that plea
despite being under house arrest since then.
As for the Rosen case, he calls that a farce aimed at getting a Clinton
crony off the hook. The accompanying civil case, he said, also set a legal
precedent Hillary Clinton later used to get out of being a defendant in his
case against her and her husband.
"I am not the one-dimensional villain that I am portrayed to be, but I am
the victim not only of the Clintons" but of their associates, who Paul says
tried to steal his assets and wrap him up in a corrupt court system.
"Not only was the indictment and the trial (of Rosen) a scam, the judge ...
turned it into a referendum on the credibility of Peter Paul," Paul said,
also faulting the prosecutor for not objecting to Judge Howard Matz's
characterization of Paul as a con man during his instructions to the jury.
"You conclude either that the prosecutor is incompetent or, worse, that the
prosecutor is dogging the case."
Paul claims that while he has been prosecuted and marginalized by the
Clintons, his video evidence proves his case against them - that the power
couple defrauded him by falsely pledging the former president's post-White
House services in exchange for footing the bill for all the gala's expenses.
That video documentation, however, may be worth only the revenue from copies
sold. The California Court of Appeals last week upheld, 3-0, a lower court's
ruling to excuse Hillary Clinton as a defendant in that suit. The court also
noted that the new video isn't new evidence.
"In his motion to admit new evidence, Paul also seeks to admit the
videotaped recording of the July 17, 2000, telephone call to demonstrate
Senator Clinton had sufficient knowledge of Paul's business enterprises and
the president's involvement with Paul such that it would not have been a
'fishing expedition' to depose her. While the recording itself may have only
been recently obtained by Paul, the substance of the conference call is not
new evidence," reads the ruling written by Judge P.J. Perluss.
Nonetheless, the conference call with then-first lady Clinton is among the
most compelling moments in the new documentary. The video, taken in Paul's
Beverly Hills office a month before the gala, shows on one end of a
teleconference, Paul, Tonken and their business partner Alana Stewart, Rod
Stewart's ex-wife. On the other end is Hillary Clinton.
Clinton can be heard saying: "Whatever it is you're doing, is it OK if I
thank you? ... I am very appreciative and it sounds fabulous. I got a full
report from Kelly (White House adviser Kelly Craighead) today when she got
back and told me everything that you're doing and it just sounds like it's
going to be a great event. But I just wanted to call and personally thank
all of you. I'm glad you're all together so I could tell you how much this
means to me, and it's going to mean a lot to the president, too."
Paul's attorney, Colette Wilson, argues that Clinton's conversation proves
she was in violation of campaign finance rules preventing candidates from
personally having a hand in coordinating fundraising events in excess of
$25,000.
The appeals court's ruling to dismiss Hillary Clinton as a defendant is
flawed because "my evidence showed that this gala was coordinated between
the candidate and Peter Paul," Wilson said. "The whole basis of (Clinton's
motion to dismiss) was her right to solicit campaign contributions, so she
admitted" she knew about the gala planning.
Wilson said that the appeals court also erred when it cited the lower
court's claim that they were on a "fishing expedition" by demanding to
depose Clinton about her knowledge of the gala.
"I would attack that by saying that the case is defined as too broad [when
it] is asking to take a lot of people's depositions. A fishing expedition
means you don't have a clue whether the person has any evidence or not," she
said.
But Wilson acknowledged that it's the court's discretion to admit new
evidence or not.
"They don't have to allow it in. The cutoff is what was available during the
lower court submission," she said.
Wilson contends that several of the videotapes, including the would-be
smoking gun, weren't available to Paul because they were confiscated by the
FBI when the securities fraud investigation began in 2001 and were withheld
from Paul until April of this year, long after the lower court heard the
case.
"They still have the originals," she noted, adding that the FBI sent the
videos to a vendor to be copied and sent to Paul.
Wilson said she's not certain she wants to appeal for an en banc hearing of
the entire appeals court or to ask the California Supreme Court to take the
case because it could mean a delay of two years before they can return to
the underlying case - the alleged fraud committed by the Clintons in
pledging that Bill Clinton would work for Stan Lee Media.
Of that, Wilson and Paul claim to have plenty of evidence and still are able
to depose Hillary Clinton as a material witness.
Paul said he also is prepared to keep open the case against the Clintons
through other means. He is filing a new complaint with the FEC and is
requesting that when Michael Mukasey is confirmed as U.S. attorney general,
he investigate how the government could have prosecuted Rosen when
authorities knew he did not commit a crime.
Cogan said he hopes the film also shines light on Hillary Clinton's
presidential campaign.
"Hillary can no longer feign ignorance in what went on here," he said. "I
think she is absolutely an unthinkable commander in chief."
Click here to view more information on the allegations made in the film:
http://www.hillcap.org/default.php?page_id=2
Click here to learn more about Peter F. Paul: http://www.peterfpaul.com/
Hillary Clinton Accuser Claims New Evidence of Fraud in Documentary
Friday, October 26, 2007
WASHINGTON - One gift that Hillary Clinton is unlikely to enjoy on her 60th
birthday Friday is the premiere of "Hillary Uncensored," a scathing
documentary whose 13-minute trailer has been No. 1 on Google Video since
Oct. 10, with more than 1.1 million views to date.
The film's first full-length showing is scheduled for Friday night at
Harvard University, followed by viewings at universities through the weekend
and a wrap Tuesday at the Metropolitan Club in New York City.
Among the allegations summarized in the documentary:
- Bill and Hillary Clinton solicited cash from Peter F. Paul, an
international lawyer and businessman, even after Hillary Clinton's campaign
manager told The Washington Post she would not take money from him;
- FBI agents and U.S. attorneys colluded with the Clintons to keep Paul, who
was convicted of cocaine possession and fraud, tangled up in the criminal
courts for years;
- The Clintons later made sure Paul was kept in a Brazilian prison for 25
months, including 58 days in a maximum security cellblock nicknamed the
"Corridor of Death," while the Justice Department waited to extradite him;
- Hillary Clinton still hasn't filed reports to the FEC enumerating Paul's
excessive contributions to her 2000 Senate campaign.
Click here to see the trailer video posted on YouTube (part 1).
Click here to see the trailer video posted on YouTube (part 2)
Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign spares no kindness about its
view of Paul, whose long arrest record, officials say, demonstrates his
inherent deceit.
"Peter Paul is a professional liar who has four separate criminal
convictions, two for fraud. His video repackages a series of seven-year-old
false claims about Senator Clinton that have already been rejected by the
California state courts, the Justice Department, the Federal Election
Commission and the Senate Ethics Committee," Clinton's campaign said in a
statement to FOXNews.com.
While it's a coincidence that the film about the New York senator and
Democratic presidential candidate is being released on her birthday, the
movie's producers say it is no accident the film's trailer is getting such
attention.
Douglas Cogan, a businessman-turned-associate producer and researcher for
the film, said he's made it his mission to expose what he calls "the
greatest campaign finance fraud that ever has been committed."
The Clintons think "they are truly above the law," Cogan said. "My country
has never seen anyone like Hillary Rodham Clinton."
The allegations in the film are not new, although much of the video is. The
film resurrects claims made by the thrice-convicted Paul that he unwittingly
agreed to violate election-funding laws in exchange for a pledge from Bill
Clinton to work with him in his new venture, Stan Lee Media, after Clinton
left the presidency.
The documentary revisits Paul's claim that, in exchange for Bill Clinton's
promise to promote Stan Lee Media overseas, for which Paul said he was
willing to pay $17 million, he also agreed to produce an August 2000
fundraising gala in Hollywood for Hillary Clinton's 2000 New York Senate
campaign.
"My interest in supporting Hillary Clinton was specifically to hire Bill
Clinton," Paul told FOXNews.com in a telephone interview, noting that
Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign "concocted" the whole idea of the fundraiser.
Paul said he believed that in exchange for organizing the gala, "I had
accomplished the hiring of the president of the United States to work with
me when he left the White House."
The gala cost $1.2 million, which was under-reported to the Federal Election
Commission and led to the arrest of Clinton's then-Senate campaign
fundraising chief, David Rosen.
Rosen was found not guilty; a co-host of the gala, Aaron Tonken, was
sentenced in a separate case to more than five years in prison for
misappropriating funds for charity to pay for fundraisers featuring
Hollywood celebrities.
Paul never got to work with Bill Clinton. Stan Lee Media filed for Chapter
11 bankruptcy in February 2001, long after it became apparent to Paul that
Clinton wasn't going to join the company and, Paul alleges, had stolen one
of Stan Lee Media's chief investors.
Paul writes off his convictions in the 1970s for cocaine possession and
defrauding Fidel Castro of $8.7 million as part of an international
anti-Castro effort gone wrong. He adds that the securities fraud plea that
he agreed to cop in March 2005 was to get out of jail after 43 months in
Brazilian and New York prisons. He still is awaiting sentencing on that plea
despite being under house arrest since then.
As for the Rosen case, he calls that a farce aimed at getting a Clinton
crony off the hook. The accompanying civil case, he said, also set a legal
precedent Hillary Clinton later used to get out of being a defendant in his
case against her and her husband.
"I am not the one-dimensional villain that I am portrayed to be, but I am
the victim not only of the Clintons" but of their associates, who Paul says
tried to steal his assets and wrap him up in a corrupt court system.
"Not only was the indictment and the trial (of Rosen) a scam, the judge ...
turned it into a referendum on the credibility of Peter Paul," Paul said,
also faulting the prosecutor for not objecting to Judge Howard Matz's
characterization of Paul as a con man during his instructions to the jury.
"You conclude either that the prosecutor is incompetent or, worse, that the
prosecutor is dogging the case."
Paul claims that while he has been prosecuted and marginalized by the
Clintons, his video evidence proves his case against them - that the power
couple defrauded him by falsely pledging the former president's post-White
House services in exchange for footing the bill for all the gala's expenses.
That video documentation, however, may be worth only the revenue from copies
sold. The California Court of Appeals last week upheld, 3-0, a lower court's
ruling to excuse Hillary Clinton as a defendant in that suit. The court also
noted that the new video isn't new evidence.
"In his motion to admit new evidence, Paul also seeks to admit the
videotaped recording of the July 17, 2000, telephone call to demonstrate
Senator Clinton had sufficient knowledge of Paul's business enterprises and
the president's involvement with Paul such that it would not have been a
'fishing expedition' to depose her. While the recording itself may have only
been recently obtained by Paul, the substance of the conference call is not
new evidence," reads the ruling written by Judge P.J. Perluss.
Nonetheless, the conference call with then-first lady Clinton is among the
most compelling moments in the new documentary. The video, taken in Paul's
Beverly Hills office a month before the gala, shows on one end of a
teleconference, Paul, Tonken and their business partner Alana Stewart, Rod
Stewart's ex-wife. On the other end is Hillary Clinton.
Clinton can be heard saying: "Whatever it is you're doing, is it OK if I
thank you? ... I am very appreciative and it sounds fabulous. I got a full
report from Kelly (White House adviser Kelly Craighead) today when she got
back and told me everything that you're doing and it just sounds like it's
going to be a great event. But I just wanted to call and personally thank
all of you. I'm glad you're all together so I could tell you how much this
means to me, and it's going to mean a lot to the president, too."
Paul's attorney, Colette Wilson, argues that Clinton's conversation proves
she was in violation of campaign finance rules preventing candidates from
personally having a hand in coordinating fundraising events in excess of
$25,000.
The appeals court's ruling to dismiss Hillary Clinton as a defendant is
flawed because "my evidence showed that this gala was coordinated between
the candidate and Peter Paul," Wilson said. "The whole basis of (Clinton's
motion to dismiss) was her right to solicit campaign contributions, so she
admitted" she knew about the gala planning.
Wilson said that the appeals court also erred when it cited the lower
court's claim that they were on a "fishing expedition" by demanding to
depose Clinton about her knowledge of the gala.
"I would attack that by saying that the case is defined as too broad [when
it] is asking to take a lot of people's depositions. A fishing expedition
means you don't have a clue whether the person has any evidence or not," she
said.
But Wilson acknowledged that it's the court's discretion to admit new
evidence or not.
"They don't have to allow it in. The cutoff is what was available during the
lower court submission," she said.
Wilson contends that several of the videotapes, including the would-be
smoking gun, weren't available to Paul because they were confiscated by the
FBI when the securities fraud investigation began in 2001 and were withheld
from Paul until April of this year, long after the lower court heard the
case.
"They still have the originals," she noted, adding that the FBI sent the
videos to a vendor to be copied and sent to Paul.
Wilson said she's not certain she wants to appeal for an en banc hearing of
the entire appeals court or to ask the California Supreme Court to take the
case because it could mean a delay of two years before they can return to
the underlying case - the alleged fraud committed by the Clintons in
pledging that Bill Clinton would work for Stan Lee Media.
Of that, Wilson and Paul claim to have plenty of evidence and still are able
to depose Hillary Clinton as a material witness.
Paul said he also is prepared to keep open the case against the Clintons
through other means. He is filing a new complaint with the FEC and is
requesting that when Michael Mukasey is confirmed as U.S. attorney general,
he investigate how the government could have prosecuted Rosen when
authorities knew he did not commit a crime.
Cogan said he hopes the film also shines light on Hillary Clinton's
presidential campaign.
"Hillary can no longer feign ignorance in what went on here," he said. "I
think she is absolutely an unthinkable commander in chief."
Click here to view more information on the allegations made in the film:
http://www.hillcap.org/default.php?page_id=2
Click here to learn more about Peter F. Paul: http://www.peterfpaul.com/
