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You misunderstand. I have no opinion as to whether or not those cattle future trades were legal or not. I just don't care about them, at all - and neither does anyone else, as has been made clear by how much this "scandal" failed to gain traction the last time you guys tried it 20 years ago.
What does any of this have to do with the topic of this thread, anyway?
You still haven't provided any support for your claims of Democratic straw donors. Perhaps you forgot.
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As Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton ran for president in 2008, one of her most enthusiastic financial supporters was Sant Singh Chatwal, an Indian-American hotel and restaurant owner, whose relationship with the Clintons dated back years.
Mr. Chatwal was a regular at Clinton campaign events in New York, a genial and gregarious presence in his red turban. He had directed more than $200,000 through his businesses to her 2000 Senate campaign, when unregulated “soft-money” donations were still permissible.
Both Bill and Hillary Clinton, along with Senator Charles E. Schumer and Representative Richard A. Gephardt, were guests at the wedding of one of Mr. Chatwal’s sons, Vivek, at Tavern on the Green in New York City in 2002.}
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/nyregion/clinton-backer-pleads-guilty-in-a-straw-donor-scheme.html
Unlike D'Souza, this man paid no fines - and SURE the fuck didn't go to jail.
We have FAR different laws for democrats than for the commoners and Republicans.
Party membership has it's privileges - like you are above the fucking law...
No fine, you say?
(Bloomberg) -- The founder of a hotel development and management firm who has donated to Democrats including likely 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was sentenced to three years of probation for an illegal campaign funds scheme.
Sant Singh Chatwal, an Indian-American businessman who founded Hampshire Hotels Management LLC and the Bombay Palace chain of restaurants, was sentenced today for witness tampering and conspiring to evade donation limits using straw donors. Recipients of more than $180,000 in illegal donations weren’t identified in court.
“I’m feeling fairly confident that I am not cheating justice by being merciful,” said U.S. District Judge I. Leo Glasser in Brooklyn, New York. Chatwal’s sentence includes 1,000 hours of community service and a $500,000 fine. Prosecutors had asked that he be sentenced to as long as four years and nine months in prison.
N.Y. Hotelier Chatwal Avoids Prison in Straw Donor Case - Bloomberg Business