This is being swept under the carpet.
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No new Gore probe at DOJ
Friday, 15 September 2000 14:21 (ET)
No new Gore probe at DOJ
By MICHAEL KIRKLAND
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) - Contrary to reports, the Justice Department is not investigating allegations that Vice President Gore illegally solicited campaign donations from Texas trial lawyers for the1996 election, U.S. officials told United Press International Friday.
The officials said investigators reviewed the material several years ago and decided that no crime had been committed. "They just decided there was nothing there," one official said.
The official conceded that the reports on the revived material could prove politically embarrassing to the Democratic presidential nominee only two months before the general election, "but that's politics."
Attorney General Janet Reno refused to comment directly on a flurry of news reports about the alleged fund-raising that appeared this week, but added that such allegations were likely to surface the closer the nation gets to the election. "I just think that we should be very careful," Reno said.
Speaking on background to UPI, another U.S. official said there is no "preliminary review" by the Justice Department Campaign Financing Task Force of the allegations against Gore, and one is unlikely unless Reno
specifically asks for a fresh look at the evidence, which she hasn't done so far.
Several media stories this week said Gore was asked by the Democratic National Committee to solicit money from Texas liability lawyers just weeks before President Clinton was scheduled to veto a bill limiting damages in
product-liability cases.
One document given to reporters by unnamed sources showed a notation from an aide for the Democratic National Committee advising a potential donor to give a $100,000 contribution before the president vetoed the legislation, not after.
None of the media reports showed Gore actually making any of the requested
calls.
Even if he had, U.S. officials said, there didn't appear to be any crime connected to the calls. "If the (donation) recipient doesn't say, 'I'm only going to veto this bill if you give us a contribution,' it isn't a quid pro quo," one official said.
The material used in the news reports has been in the hands of Justice Department investigators and Congress for several years.
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NRA/GOA/SAF/USMC
Oregon residents please support the Oregon Firearms Federation, our only "No compromise" gun lobby. http://www.oregonfirearms.org
Alert your reps - protest this via: http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm
(use the contact your reps/send message feature)
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=118228
No new Gore probe at DOJ
Friday, 15 September 2000 14:21 (ET)
No new Gore probe at DOJ
By MICHAEL KIRKLAND
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) - Contrary to reports, the Justice Department is not investigating allegations that Vice President Gore illegally solicited campaign donations from Texas trial lawyers for the1996 election, U.S. officials told United Press International Friday.
The officials said investigators reviewed the material several years ago and decided that no crime had been committed. "They just decided there was nothing there," one official said.
The official conceded that the reports on the revived material could prove politically embarrassing to the Democratic presidential nominee only two months before the general election, "but that's politics."
Attorney General Janet Reno refused to comment directly on a flurry of news reports about the alleged fund-raising that appeared this week, but added that such allegations were likely to surface the closer the nation gets to the election. "I just think that we should be very careful," Reno said.
Speaking on background to UPI, another U.S. official said there is no "preliminary review" by the Justice Department Campaign Financing Task Force of the allegations against Gore, and one is unlikely unless Reno
specifically asks for a fresh look at the evidence, which she hasn't done so far.
Several media stories this week said Gore was asked by the Democratic National Committee to solicit money from Texas liability lawyers just weeks before President Clinton was scheduled to veto a bill limiting damages in
product-liability cases.
One document given to reporters by unnamed sources showed a notation from an aide for the Democratic National Committee advising a potential donor to give a $100,000 contribution before the president vetoed the legislation, not after.
None of the media reports showed Gore actually making any of the requested
calls.
Even if he had, U.S. officials said, there didn't appear to be any crime connected to the calls. "If the (donation) recipient doesn't say, 'I'm only going to veto this bill if you give us a contribution,' it isn't a quid pro quo," one official said.
The material used in the news reports has been in the hands of Justice Department investigators and Congress for several years.
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NRA/GOA/SAF/USMC
Oregon residents please support the Oregon Firearms Federation, our only "No compromise" gun lobby. http://www.oregonfirearms.org
