One of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s top fundraisers and close friend has pleaded guilty to swindling a major public school district out of millions of dollars by exploiting a program designed to help minority businesses.
The wealthy Chicago businessman, James Levin, has contributed lots of money to a number of nationally known Democratic candidates and served as a White House liaison for other fundraisers during Hillary’s first Senate campaign. In fact, he helped organize a Hollywood gala that raised millions for Hillary and landed her finance director in court for concealing the money.
A former strip club owner, Levin also served on the national finance committees for Hillary’s senate campaign as well as Al Gore’s presidential run in 2000. As president of an Illinois fencing company, he admitted bribing the owners of women and minority-owned businesses to act as front companies so that he could benefit from a program designed to help those businesses win contracts.
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2007-01-21 01:38:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
From 1998 to 2001, his fencing company, Tru-Link, received nearly $3 million in contracts from the school district after falsely representing that portions of the work would be performed by minority- or women-owned firms.
Levin also admitted that he over billed Chicago Public Schools $207,000 for snow removal work that his company won in a separate contract.
So far no comment from the New York Senator or her husband, the former president, on the conviction of a rich friend who helped them raise millions of dollars.
2007-01-21 01:39:04 · update #1
Well CK,
I say if you do your homework that you will find out that 40 Democratic Senators can be linked to Jack Abramoff.
2007-01-22 08:26:01 · update #2
Be ready for a "Well a Republican did this, and a Republican did that" response from the left.
And it's good to see that the Democrats aren't as perfect as they claim themselves to be.
2007-01-21 01:42:56 · answer #1 · answered by The Cult of Personality 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jack Abramoff, Tom Noe, Brent Wilkes, and Ken Lay were Bush Donors, and THEY were all convicted of various crimes.
What say you?
2007-01-21 09:49:08 · answer #2 · answered by ck4829 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hey, that's the Clintons for ya
2007-01-21 09:41:46 · answer #3 · answered by BAARAAACK 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"whitewater".
2007-01-21 09:45:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋