FBI Seeks Pakistani Linked to Clinton, Boxer Contributions

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Busheviks Try to Muddy Up Hillary with the Illegal Campaign Contributions Shtick Again. You Can See Why They So Desperately are Trying to Make Federal Prosecuters Hit Men for the RNC: Buzzflash

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FBI Seeks Pakistani Linked to Clinton, Boxer Contributions
Saturday, March 3, 2007



WASHINGTON -- A Pakistani immigrant who hosted fundraisers for Hillary Clinton is being sought by the FBI for allegedly funneling illegal contributions to Clinton’s political action committee and the 2004 re-election campaign of Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

Authorities say Los Angeles businessman Abdul Rehman Jinnah, 56, fled the United States shortly after being indicted for engineering more than $50,000 in illegal donations to the Democratic committees. A business associate charged as Jinnah’s co-conspirator has entered a guilty plea and is scheduled to be sentenced in Los Angeles next week.

A federal law enforcement source said prosecutors had not dealt with the political committees in conducting their investigation and had no evidence that the committees knew the contributions were illegal.

Officials for both committees said they were unaware of the investigation or indictments until they were contacted by The Times, and said they would give the donations to charity.

The case has transformed Jinnah from a political point man on Pakistani issues, a man often photographed next to foreign dignitaries and U.S. leaders, into a fugitive with his mug shot on the FBI’s most-wanted list.

Jinnah’s profile peaked in 2004 and 2005 as he wooed members of Congress to join a caucus advancing Pakistani concerns and brought Clinton to speak to prominent Pakistani Americans, lauding their homeland’s contributions to the war on terror and calling relations with Pakistan beneficial to U.S. interests.

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Rose Kapolczynski, a consultant who ran Boxer’s 2004 campaign, said no one on Boxer’s staff had known of Jinnah’s indictment or the illegal contributions.

“We were very surprised,” she said, adding that neither the FBI nor the Justice Department had requested information from the campaign for the case.

Jinnah hosted or co-hosted two fund-raisers for Boxer, she acknowledged.

In addition to the donations cited in the indictment, Boxer will also give back $8,000 contributed by Jinnah and his relatives, either to charity or the U.S. Treasury, she said.