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Another old Clinton scandal that many would prefer to forget, especially the Clintons. But since this scandal involves campaign finance violaitons in the Clinton history, it is particularly relevant since Hillary and Bill are working on a White House encore presentation.

The case in a nutshell involves taxpayer-funded trade missions of the Department of Commerce during President Bill Clinton’s Administration in which seats on the missions were sold for campaign contributions. Judicial Watch used the Freedom of Information Act to request documents from Commerce related to the arrangements. Essentially, Commerce did what it could to impede the request. After Commerce put a $13,000 price tag on the docs, Judicial Watch filed suit.

The settlement, memoranda and depositions of key witnesses including whistleblowers are available from the Judicial Watch site as well as a Hillary Watch feature that presents timely updates to items about FEC fines, Clinton big donor problems and other campaign irregularities of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Below are links to the sources mentioned above and one other about Commerce paying legal fees for this Clinton Scandal. Keep in mind that is taxpayer money being used for legal fees for politicians.

compelling witness testimony from this case……

Ms. Hill also testified that Brown, who was killed in a plane crash during a trade mission to Bosnia, admitted to her that Hillary Clinton conceived of the scheme to sell seats on trade mission in exchange for campaign contributions. Specifically, the Court heard testimony on how Brown allegedly complained about being “Hillary’s [expletive] tour guide.”

Feds Pay Group’s Legal Fees For Clinton Scandal Litigation
Posted on Friday, 20 of July , 2007 at 7:51 pm

WASHINGTON—The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has approved a settlement by which the U.S. Commerce Department has agreed to pay Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, $842,500 in attorney’s fees and costs arising from a lengthy and contentious Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that sought access to records concerning a infamous Clinton Administration fundraising scandal.

The following source provides much reading material regarding the Judicial Watch suit, including summary, settlement and court documents including depositions of witnesses.

Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Commerce

In this extraordinary case, Judicial Watch uncovered important evidence of political corruption at the U.S. Department of Commerce under President William Jefferson Clinton. When Judicial Watch suspected that seats on Commerce Department trade missions were being sold in exchange for campaign contributions to the Democratic National Committee, Judicial Watch requested access to records about the trade mission under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. When the Commerce Department failed to respond to Judicial Watch’s request, then demanded it pay $13,000 to obtain the records, Judicial Watch filed suit.

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