Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Another Hsu Drops

Another Clinton fundraiser has been caught funneling foreign funds into the Clinton campaign.

Mauricio Celis has been a major fundraiser for the Clintons. He was originally busted for practicing law without a license and he's linked to Mexican drug cartels.

Mauricio Celis is linked to the Mexican drug trade in a search warrant the state used Friday to raid his law offices and gather computer files, according to financial documents and other business records. The warrant includes a sworn statement by a Texas Attorney General's official accusing Celis of money laundering.

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The state searched a U.S. Treasury database and border crossing data to determine that Celis went to Mexico frequently after withdrawing large sums of cash, according to an affidavit accompanying the warrant.

"Celis is rumored to be associated with questionable criminal element (sic) possibly related to drug trafficking," the affidavit states.

The affidavit, by Capt. Alex Pena of the Attorney General's Office, states that Pena "believes that Mauricio Celis has committed the felony offense of money laundering."

A document the state obtained from Frost Bank showed a joint account signed by Celis and Raul Armando Winder, a Mexican citizen and former police officer who has been employed as a pilot by individuals linked to narcotic trafficking, according to the affidavit. The account was for a business called Pegasus Air Services, which Celis owned from 2002-05, according to the Texas Secretary of State. Winder is listed as vice president on the bank application.


So far, we have the Clintons accepting money from Chinese communists who gained valuable missile targeting technology, Indonesians who got much wealthier as a consequence of Bill Clinton's designation of the Grand Staircase Escalante as a national monument and criminals who were granted presidential pardons in exchange for cash and contributions. What is it that Mexican drug lords hope to receive?

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