Sunday, February 20, 2011

Several big donors to Hillary Clinton now facing criminal allegations

The Washington Post reports:
The indictment of a top Northern Virginia fundraiser last week marks the latest in a series of criminal cases that have ensnared campaign donors to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who relied heavily on wealthy bundlers in her failed 2008 bid for the presidency.

Federal grand jury indictments handed up in Alexandria allege that Galen Capital Group Chairman William P. Danielczyk Jr. and his treasurer illegally reimbursed nearly $190,000 in donations to Clinton's 2008 and 2006 campaigns, sometimes with corporate funds.

Under federal law, major fundraisers known as bundlers are free to help solicit and package so-called conduit contributions for favored candidates, but they are not allowed to reimburse other donors as a way to evade campaign finance limits.
Nice people to do business with.