Comments on: NRCC Catalogs the Damage

By: Nell

Nell — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:33:21 +0000

None of the info the NRCC is putting out comes from the FBI investigation, whatever stage that’s at (very preliminary, I’d guess; they got into this because the NRCC was required to notify them when it became clear that they’d filed fraudulent info with the FEC). It is entirely the result of a forensic accounting that they hired done when it became clear they had no way of knowing what the damage was.

The NRCC paid for the report, they control the results. It’s not part of any criminal investigation, though it might of course become evidence in one if there is a real investigation.

By: Citizen92

Citizen92 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:19:01 +0000

Yes. Her company was officially called L’Argent LLC. Ha ha, what a great name for a fundraising company.

The successor company (Aventum) has done very well. I’m not sure why she abandoned the L’Argent brand.

Too brash?

Aventum was recently selected by Rep. John Doolittle to do his fundraising. For years and years before, Doolittle’s fundraising was done by his wife through her company Sierra Dominion Financial Services. SDFS injected significant money into the family wealth of the Doolittles.

Anyway, I wonder how Aventum came to land that contract?

Here’s a picture of Aventum/L’Argent owner Hetaf with a Congressman (Doolittle?).

By: kittykitty

kittykitty — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:01:26 +0000

Largent??
as in l’argent. french for money?

By: BlueStateRedHead

BlueStateRedHead — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:19:13 +0000

Finally found, a time line.
Shorter timeline. no lone rogue but intentional destruction of oversight.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....509/471397

By: BlueStateRedHead

BlueStateRedHead — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:48:29 +0000

If anyone i still up on this topic, I’d like some dot connecting between the earlier coverage and todays, with some why now speculation. I am more jetlagged that ever in my life of traveling so my search skills are in the cellar. Did it break when Ward was fired in August, only to be rehired as a consultant, at least in the progessosphere? That’s my impression. and if it did, was there a coverup that will hopefully be worse than the crime as it will require subpoenas from the next spine-bristling congress and, we hope, none executive privilege withholding president. (Although I worry about The Hil being an annie oakley/Ethel Merman, “anything you can do, I can do better” person.)

So far for earlier coverage I have found:

http://www.politico.com/news/s...../8349.html

and our own EW

http://emptywheel.firedoglake......roduction/

By: brendanx

brendanx — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:27:58 +0000

Then there’s the methinks-the-lady-doth-protest-too-much quote:

“The evidence we have today indicated we have been deceived and betrayed for a number of years by a highly respected and trusted individual,” said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the NRCC chairman.

It’s not “We have been deceived…”, it’s “The evidence we have today indicated…”

By: Citizen92

Citizen92 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:40:46 +0000

Sure enough, Hetaf’s “L’Argent LLC” did do business with Williams & Jensen accounts. Records show that L’Argent LLC took in approximately $11,200 from the “Promoting Republicans You Can Elect” PAC in 2004. L’Argent also took in money from the “American Dream” PAC which is not affiliated with W&J.

By: PJEvans

PJEvans — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:12:20 +0000

Mph.
Maybe that’s what the NRCC can prove, from their own records, disappeared.
I can’t think they’d want word escaping if they’d been completely cleaned out, so I’d bet there might be more gone and that it would take the FBI and forensic accountants to find it.

By: randiego

randiego — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:43:57 +0000

Okay, yeah yeah, secret sessions, NRCC embezzlement, blah blah…

The important questions remain:
did you get in a sunset? Any ocean time? Any decent mexican food?

By: josiahbartlette

josiahbartlette — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:35:27 +0000

He’s got the back up tapes for the e-mail servers. He’s ging to get off in the end.