Hillary Clinton campaign got illicit funds from D.C. scandal figure
Despite Hillary Rodham Clinton's promise that she had scrubbed illegal cash contributions from her 2008 presidential campaign, prosecutors revealed Monday that the mastermind of Mayor Vincent C. Gray's "shadow campaign" also funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to aid Mrs. Clinton's bid for the White House.
Jeffrey E. Thompson's scheme included diverting more than $608,000 in illicit funds to a New York marketing executive, Troy White, who organized "street teams" to raise Mrs. Clinton's visibility in urban areas during her Democratic primary battle against Barack Obama. Mr. White pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in the case.
Prosecutors said that from February to May 2008, Thompson used two firms to disburse $608,750 in "excessive and unreported contributions to pay for campaign services in coordination with and in support of a federal political candidate for president of the United States and the federal and the candidate’s authorized committee." That candidate was Mrs. Clinton.
Mr. Obama, too, received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Thompson and his employees, although those donations apparently were legal.
Mrs. Clinton's campaign chairman at the time was Terry McAuliffe, now governor of Virginia. Mr. McAuliffe's gubernatorial campaign said last year that it would not return a $2,500 donation that Thompson made in 2009.Also read:
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