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Hillary leads in 'dirty' donor refunds
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 Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:00 am Post subject: Hillary leads in 'dirty' donor refunds |
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 Hillary leads in 'dirty' donor refunds
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign has cut nearly $1.3 million in refund checks to hundreds of donors since July 1 — more than triple what the rest of the Democratic field returned to supporters combined, new campaign filings show.Mrs. Clinton returned nearly 700 contributions to individual donors, including $804,850 to 249 donors linked to disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign has cut nearly $1.3 million in refund checks to hundreds of donors since July 1 — more than triple what the rest of the Democratic field returned to supporters combined, new campaign filings show.Mrs. Clinton returned nearly 700 contributions to individual donors, including $804,850 to 249 donors linked to disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu.Several donors contacted yesterday declined to discuss why they received refunds. A woman who answered the phone number registered to San Francisco donor Wai King Yeung, to whom the Clinton campaign reimbursed $4,600, said she did not speak English.Mr. Hsu was charged last month in federal court in New York with running a massive Ponzi scheme. A major Democratic fundraiser, the New York businessman also faces charges he contributed to various campaigns using straw donors as a front, threatening investors if they did not support his favored candidates.Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, yesterday said the campaign "acted out of an abundance of caution" in returning the money."We had no knowledge that these individuals made donations using Mr. Hsu's or anybody else's money," Mr. Wolfson said. "But we decided to return the money."Campaigns return donations for a host of reasons, from correcting accounting mistakes to trying to control potential political fallout, said Bradley Smith, a former commissioner for the Federal Election Commission (FEC)."There are many reasons why a campaign would return money, the most obvious being that the funds are illegal," Mr. Smith said."Most of these Hsu contributions were perfectly legal bundling," Mr. Smith said. "So why would you return those? The answer is the scandal element. The campaign wants to stop revelations coming out."Mrs. Clinton's campaign refunds reported to the FEC on Monday dwarfed the contributions returned by her Democratic rivals.
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