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| Group Urges Ethics Probe of Sen. Clinton |
| Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
A self-described "public interest group that fights government corruption" has filed an ethics complaint with a Senate panel, asking it to investigate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (search) for her role in an alleged attempt to defraud the Federal Election Commission (search) and the U.S. Senate.
Judicial Watch (search) has a history of monitoring the New York senator and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and its latest allegation is that Clinton is responsible for omitting from her fund-raising report to the FEC a $1.9 million contribution that funded an August 2000 fund-raiser for her Senate campaign called "Hollywood Tribute to William Jefferson Clinton."
The fund-raiser has landed Clinton's campaign finance director, David Rosen (search), in criminal trouble. Rosen goes on trial Tuesday in a California federal court on charges that he deliberately filed the false report with the FEC that undervalued the cost of the star-studded event. Judicial Watch alleges that Clinton knew of the contribution as well as Rosen and failed to report the true value of the expenditures, despite repeated demands.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton (search) argued that Clinton closely monitored the Hollywood fund-raiser and knew its actual cost was much greater than the $400,000 tab reported in campaign financial filings.
"They're false and she knows them to be false," Fitton said.
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