Clinton's Donor Troubles

Hillary Clinton's stretch of bad donor news got worse today with another entry from the Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the fugitive Norman Hsu.

Today the Journal looks at another Clinton bundler, William Danielczyk, founder of a Washingont-based private-equity firm.

As the Journal reports:

When Hillary Rodham Clinton held an intimate fund-raising event at her Washington home in late March, Pamela Layton donated $4,600, the maximum allowed by law, to Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign.

But the 37-year-old Ms. Layton says she and her husband were reimbursed by her husband's boss for the donations. "It wasn't personal money. It was all corporate money," Mrs. Layton said outside her home here. "I don't even like Hillary. I'm a Republican." ... Mrs. Layton's gift was one of more than a dozen donations that night from people with Republican ties or no history of political giving.

The organizer, or bundler, of the fundraiser was of course Danielczyk, who denied to the Journal reimbursing employees for their political donations, which is illegal.

The Journal also reports:

One person at the event was a Washington-area investor who was considering putting some money in one of Mr. Danielczyk's ventures. The investor, a registered Republican, said he was invited by Mr. Danielczyk and a colleague who were wooing him to invest at least $125,000 in one of their companies.

The investor, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says he didn't donate any money to Mrs. Clinton. Campaign-finance records show that the investor contributed $4,600 on March 30 to Mrs. Clinton. The reason for the discrepancy isn't clear.



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