Kennedy In-Law Secretly Taped Hillary Aide
Sen. Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law, who pled guilty to bank fraud
charges
yesterday in New Orleans, secretly tape recorded former top Hillary
Clinton
campaign aide David Rosen - and may have taped Hillary herself - as
part of
an FBI probe into an Aug. 12, 2000 gala fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton's
Senate
campaign.
Ray Reggie, the brother of Kennedy's wife Victoria Reggie, was
identified by
prosecutors yesterday as the confidential witness who had been
cooperating
with investigators for three years as part of his bank fraud plea
bargain.
"I wasn't sure if anybody made any of these connections yet or not,"
Assistant U.S. Attorney in New Orleans, Jan Mann, told the New York
Sun,
which first reported the wiretapping on Thursday.
Prosecutors say Rosen, who served as finance chairman for Mrs.
Clinton's
2000 Senate race, "made a number of incriminating statements" on the
Reggie
tapes, which they intend to introduce at his trial, set to begin on May
3.
In an indictment announced in January, Rosen was charged with hiding
from
the Federal Election Commission hundreds of thousands of dollars in
campaign
contributions from the related to the Hollywood gala.
Mr. Reggie traveled extensively with both Bill and Hillary Clinton, put
together fundraisers for the former first couple and was an overnight
guest
at the Clinton White House.
During a June 2000 White House visit, the Clintons and the Reggies
stayed up
late into the night "chatting," the New York Post said.
Asked if Reggie may have also recorded one or both of the Clintons,
attorney
David Kendall "had no immediate response," the Sun said. The key
government
witness was "wearing a wire and making secret tapes as recently as last
December," the Post said.
Another key witness in the probe, celebrity fundraiser Aaron Tonken,
says
the FBI asked him to record his conversations with Mrs. Clinton, in a
bid to
gather evidence about the Aug. 2000 fundraiser, which Tonken helped
produce.
But Clinton insiders suspected he was cooperating with investigators
and
refused to take his calls.
If Mrs. Clinton was captured on tape making comments indicating she
knew the
extent of Rosen's alleged misdeeds, it could have a devastating impact
on
her plans to run for president in 2008.
Both Tonken and Hollywood mogul Peter Paul - who bankrolled the Clinton
gala - say they personally apprised the top Democrat about the costs of
the
fundraiser.
"I told her about virtually every penny I'd spent on her behalf,"
Tonken
recalled in his recent book "King of Cons."
"I told her about the money and what a pleasure it was to spend it on
her
[Senate] candidacy."
Mr. Paul says Mrs. Clinton was even involved in trying to trim some of
the
event's production costs.
"Hillary Clinton personally called the producer of the concert part of
this
event," he told Fox News Channel's Eric Shawn last November.
"She asked him to lower the fee that he was charging of $850,000 at my
request. So I don't understand how she could possibly say that she
didn't
know" about the costs.
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