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Anonymous wrote:https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/obama-donor-pleads-guilty-in-foreign-donation-scheme-226147
Obama donor pleads guilty in foreign donation scheme
Illegal payments totaling $80,000 got an Albanian prime minister hopeful an audience with the president.
A Florida man pled guilty Monday to participating in and covering up a bizarre scheme that wound up getting a man hoping to to become prime minister of Albania into to one of President Barack Obama's fundraising events in October 2012, weeks before Obama's re-election.
Appearing in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, businessman William Argeros, 57, admitted to felony charges of aiding and abetting and illegal foreign political donation and making a false statement to a grand jury, court filings show.
Argeros gave $75,800 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2012 and subsequently donated $100,000 to the committee funding Obama's re-inauguration in 2013, federal records show.
In a plea deal with federal prosecutors, Argeros admitted to teaming up with New Jersey limousine driver Bilal Shehu to receive $80,000 "from a foreign source" and route it to the Obama Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee supporting Obama's reelection bid and other Democratic candidates.
The funds were used to get Albanian politician Edi Rama into an Obama fundraiser in San Francisco. Rama later used a photo with Obama to suggest Obama supported Rama's bid for prime minister, a post he won following a parliamentary election in June 2013.
Soon after the photo of Obama and Rama emerged, Rep, Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) called on U.S. authorities to investigate the donation that led to Rama's attendance at the event.
Albanian prosecutors are reportedly investigating Rama for illegal donations in the U.S., but no charges against him have been filed in Albania.
oh, and look "Soon after the photo of Obama and Rama emerged, Rep, Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) called on U.S. authorities to investigate the donation that led to Rama's attendance at the event. "..... so the investigation happened and the guy went to jail. Did Obama try to kill the investigation? Did he threaten to fire the investigator? Nope. Unlike Trump and the rest of the sycophant Rs.