"Major political donor arrested" by Dan Eggen, Washington Post | August 27, 2009
WASHINGTON - Just 11 months ago, Hassan Nemazee ranked as one of the Democratic Party’s premier money men - hosting a $28,500-a-head fund-raiser in his luxurious home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Yesterday, Nemazee returned to the same $20 million Park Avenue apartment under house arrest, charged with lying about his assets in order to secure a $74 million loan from Citibank. He is required to wear an electronic security bracelet to ensure he doesn’t leave the building.
The charges prompted a scramble among top Democrats to distance themselves from Nemazee, 59, who together with his wife has contributed more than $750,000 to federal candidates and committees over the last 15 years, including Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, records show....
The criminal charges mark a dramatic fall for Nemazee, the Iranian-American son of a shipping tycoon who emerged over the last two decades as a major player in Democratic politics and a prominent voice in the debate over US relations with Iran. He is chairman and chief executive of Nemazee Capital Corp., a New York investment firm that originally focused on real estate development, including some in the Washington suburbs.
Nemazee was nominated by Bill Clinton in 1999 to be ambassador to Argentina, but his name was withdrawn amid objections from Republicans about the propriety of some of his investment activities.
Nemazee became best known in recent years as a major Democratic fund-raiser, working for the 2004 presidential campaign of Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, and later becoming finance chairman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. During the 2008 election, he served as cochairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential fund-raising efforts and went on to raise more than $500,000 for Obama - making him one of the top bundlers in Obama’s campaign....
Translation: the WHOLE SYSTEM is ROTTED to the CORE!!!!
“To become president of the United States, you have to rely very heavily on a very special, narrow group of Americans who have access to a lot of money,’’ said Taylor Lincoln, a research director at Public Citizen, which advocates public financing of campaigns.
The Zionist War Daily trying to say it is Iran who controls U.S. politics?
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!
Although he has also contributed to a handful of Republicans, Nemazee’s ties with Democrats are deep and wide. The Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group, found that Nemazee had contributed to 75 federal candidates since 1990.
The VOTE REPUBLICAN, America!
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At least it would be a start; maybe Ron Paul could head up a committee or something.
