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| May 22, 2001 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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Flagrant Violation of Law Which Prohibits Fundraising on Government Property Republican Fundraising Apparatus Has Gone Out of Control – Special Counsel Now Needed To Investigate Apparent Violations Of Law (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government and public corruption, announced today that it would institute legal action concerning a RNC fundraising event for hundreds of Republican donors last night at the government residence of Vice President Dick Cheney. Among other laws, the event was a prima facie violation of the prohibition of the use of federal property for political fundraising purposes. Judicial Watch has already initiated legal action against the National Republican Senatorial Committee and National Republican Congressional Committee over similarly illegal and unethical fundraising practices, including selling access to Bush Cabinet officials, Bush foreign policy officials, foreign ambassadors, and other federal employees. Republican Speaker Denny Hastert and Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald, among other Republican lawmakers, have repudiated these fundraising tactics. “The Republican fundraising apparatus is out of control. Their brazen disregard for law and ethics is approaching Clintonian levels. The Vice President’s involvement has now pushed this Republican scandal up to a new level. Attorney General John Ashcroft must now appoint a special counsel to investigate the apparent violations of law by high level Administration officials,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman. “Judicial Watch has been second to none in trying to hold the Clinton gang accountable for their fundraising illegalities, having ‘gotten the ball rolling’ on Chinagate back in 1996. Obviously, Republicans are also accountable to the law. And Judicial Watch will continue to remind them of that in the courts and elsewhere,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. |
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