Mainstream Media Ignores Massive Campaign Finance Fraud by Hillary

By Christopher J. Petherick

While the mainstream media continues to focus on the Democratic presidential horse race between Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), an ongoing court case charging massive campaign finance fraud on the part of Mrs. Clinton’s Senate campaign has largely been ignored by the corporate-owned press in the United States.

So far, Mrs. Clinton has been shielded from charges that her Senate campaign in 2000 knowingly falsified Federal Election Commission (FEC) financial statements to hide over $1 million in illegal donations. Instead, Justice Department lawyers have converged on lower-level staff members, dragging them into court to testify regarding the accusations of fraud.

David Rosen, her former finance director, has been the only individual to have been indicted for violations. He was eventually found guilty and fined $35,000.

FBI investigators have focused on an Aug. 12, 2000, fundraiser and concert held by California media mogul Peter Paul who provided more than $1.1 million in “in-kind contributionsâ€