Subject: [big campaign] Re: Calling on Justice to investigate McCain's bundlers, like they did with Hsu
From: David Donnelly <[email-masked]>
To: David Donnelly <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:44:20 -0400
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Fixing link to letter now ‹ sorry.

DD

On 8/11/08 1:29 PM, "David Donnelly" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> http://www.campaignmoney.org/pressroom/2008/08/11/watchdog-group-calls-for-fed
> eral-investigation-into-presidential-campaign-fundraising
> 
> Watchdog Group Calls For Federal Investigation Into Presidential Campaign
> Fundraising
> 
> Washington, D.C.  In a letter to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey,
> Campaign Money Watch urged the Justice Department to investigate potential
> criminal fundraising activities regarding bundlers for Sen. John McCain¹s
> presidential campaign.
> 
> ³Media reports over the past week have brought to public attention the
> possibility that supporters of Sen. McCain¹s presidential campaign have used
> Œstraw¹ donors as a means to circumvent federal campaign contribution limits,²
> wrote the group¹s director, David Donnelly, in the six-page letter. ³We urge
> you to investigate two distinct cases where violations may have occurred 
> violations like those committed by Norman Hsu, who was swiftly indicted by the
> Justice Department earlier this election cycle after news accounts brought
> similar violations to light.²
> 
> The letter was hand-delivered today with more than 12,000 petition signatures
> and comments collected over the weekend by MoveOn.org Political Action urging
> the Justice Department to investigate. In addition, the letter was faxed to
> U.S. Attorneys in three separate jurisdictions: Southern District of New York,
> Southern District of Florida, and the Central District of California.
> 
> A copy of the letter can be found at http://www.campaignmoney.org/doj-letter.
> 
> The cases, which both emerged in news coverage last week, include two
> high-profile connections to oil executives and companies:
> 
>     * The letter urges a full examination of a series of unlikely donations
> from California that were bundled by a foreign national on behalf of a McCain
> bundler from Florida, Harry Sargeant III. While $50,000 of the Sargeant
> fundraising haul has been returned, he raised more than $500,000 in total.
> Sargeant and the foreign national, Mustafa Abu Naba¹a, are owners of
> International Oil Trading Company, which holds a controversial contract worth
> roughly $1 billion to deliver fuel oil to U.S. military bases in Iraq.
> 
>     * The letter also encourages Justice to investigate two $28,500 donations
> made by a Hess Corporation office manager and her husband, an Amtrak foreman,
> to the McCain Victory 2008 committee. The individuals, Alice and Pasquale
> Rocchio, have no federal campaign contribution history before giving to
> McCain. Hess Corporation CEO, John Hess, is a McCain bundler, and the company
> would likely profit immensely if McCain¹s proposal to expand offshore
> drilling, an idea he opposed until June, becomes law. Hess employees and
> family members donated more than $300,000 in June to the joint fundraising
> committee.
> 
> In the group¹s letter to the Attorney General, Donnelly argues that only an
> official investigation will get to the bottom of the matters.
> 
> ³Campaign Money Watch is concerned the McCain campaign¹s approach is in effect
> a Œdon¹t ask, don¹t tell¹ policy that seeks to limit political damage rather
> than to turn over to authorities those who may be violating the law,² Donnelly
> writes in the letter. ³These are not trivial matters. Individuals who are
> found guilty of making donations in the names of others face up to five years
> imprisonment for each violation.²
> 
> Campaign Money Watch is a project of the nonpartisan Public Campaign Action
> Fund. The organization works to hold politicians who are against comprehensive
> campaign finance reform accountable for where they get their political
> donations.
> 
> ### 
> > 
> 

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