-Caveat Lector-
Their skills have certainly improved in the last 6 months. They never
could find 'enough evidence' for ANYTHING over the last 8 years.
On Sun, 27 May 2001 03:11:43 -0700 MIKE SPITZER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> NYPOST EXCLUSIVE
>
> FEDS: WE CAN BURN 'TORCH'
>
> By BRIAN BLOMQUIST
> May 27, 2001
>
> EXCLUSIVE
>
> WASHINGTON - Federal investigators believe they have enough evidence
> to
> indict Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) for allegedly taking illegal
> gifts and lying
> about it - and could charge him soon, sources told The Post.
>
> Torricelli, known on Capitol Hill as "the Torch", is "the most
> corrupt
> politician in America. We're going to indict him soon," one Justice
> Department investigator told an associate, according to a source.
>
> The feds could charge Torricelli by summer's end to try to beat the
> five-year statute of limitations on allegations that Torricelli took
> an
> $8,100 Rolex watch from New Jersey businessman David Chang in
> November
> 1996 and money for a Mercedes in August 1996.
>
> The probe could take longer if Torricelli agrees to waive the
> statute
> of
> limitations, but that seems unlikely since the feds and the senator
> are
> at war and negotiations between the two sides are nonexistent -
> despite
> Torricelli's recent order that his lawyers open a "dialogue" with
> Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White.
>
> Two lawyers recently hired by Torricelli are known for their
> scorched-earth defense tactics - Ted Wells defended Bill Clinton's
> Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy on illegal-gifts charges by winning
> at
> trial, and Mark Pomerantz ran White's own criminal division.
>
> Sources say Torricelli still hasn't been told he's a criminal
> target.
> Such a letter usually - but not always - precedes an indictment.
>
> Torricelli is under investigation for a variety of possible crimes,
> the
> most serious being that he allegedly took thousands in unreported
> gifts
> from Chang in exchange for helping his former friend and fund-raiser
> pocket millions of dollars in two business deals in Korea.
>
> That Torricelli tried to help Chang is undisputed. He wrote to the
> North Korean United Nations ambassador on behalf of Chang in one
> case
> and traveled with Chang to South Korea to put pressure on officials
> in
> a
> second case, prompting U.S. diplomats to apologize to the South
> Koreans
> for the senator's behavior.
>
> Earlier this spring, the feds searched Torricelli's home in
> Englewood
> looking for the alleged gifts from Chang. The search appears to
> have
> been done with Torricelli's consent - given that his lawyer, Wells,
> was
> present - and it's unclear what turned up.
>
> White's office refused to comment on the case.
>
> Chang, who pleaded guilty to giving the senator $53,700 in illegal
> contributions in the 1996 campaign, has told the feds he was
> basically
> Torricelli's personal money man for the past five years.
>
> Chang claims he handed Torricelli envelopes stuffed with thousands
> in
> cash, bought him 10 Italian suits, a big-screen TV, cufflinks from
> Tiffany's, and $600 earrings for then-girlfriend Judy Balaban, a
> former
> fashion model.
>
> Chang also put down several thousand dollars on a Mercedes, but
> Torricelli said he put a stop to Chang's attempt to buy the car for
> him
> when he found out about it from the dealer, and Torricelli paid for
> the
> car himself.
>
> Each bribery conviction carries a penalty of up to 15 years in
> prison
> and disqualification from serving in public office.
>
> Torricelli has repeatedly claimed he didn't break any laws.
>
> But his defense that he took "no illegal gifts" from Chang could be
> seen
> as a toehold onto a strategy that Chang was his "personal friend"
> and
> therefore not covered by the strict rules that apply to senators
> accepting gifts.
>
> But even if he claimed Chang was a "personal friend," the rules
> state
> that Torricelli would have been required to get permission from the
> Senate Ethics Committee to take a gift worth more than $250 - and
> still
> would have had to report it.
>
> Torricelli didn't record gifts from Chang on the personal
> financial-disclosure statements he signed and filed with the Senate.
> Lying on the forms carries a penalty of five years in jail under the
> federal "false statements" law.
>
> Further complicating that defense, Torricelli and his lawyers have
> blasted Chang as a "pathological liar" with zero credibility.
>
> But the probe, involving dozens of investigators and prosecutors out
> of
> New Jersey and the Justice Department's public-integrity section,
> has
> only intensified and expanded.
>
> The feds recently seized records from the Bergen County Democratic
> Party
> to determine whether it essentially was used by Torricelli as a
> slush
> fund in the 1996 campaign - taking money from contributors who were
> maxed out and couldn't give any more directly to Torricelli, and in
> turn
> paying Torricelli's campaign expenses.
>
> Besides Chang, others have said they funneled money to Torricelli
> through conduits.
>
> Just last week, New Jersey trucking company owner Joseph Supor told
> The
> Star-Ledger of Newark that he reimbursed seven employees who wrote
> $1,000 checks to Torricelli - after Torricelli pressured him to come
> up with
> more money for his campaign.
>
> Torricelli is famous for his quick-witted intellect, big ego,
> hot-head
> temper, and his assorted high-profile girlfriends, including
> Patricia
> Duff, ex-wife of Revlon chief Ron Perelman, and Bianca Jagger,
> ex-wife
> of Mick.
>
> On Capitol Hill, some senators have discreetly avoided Torricelli,
> and
> most aides believe he'll be indicted.
>
> Most observers also believe the feisty senator will fight any
> indictment, as the Torch himself put it, "with every ounce of
> strength
> in my body."
>
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