Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...journalist's instinct in her blood. That could explain what it was that got her last week to jump-start her department's investigation of campaign fund raising: sheer fury at being scooped. Earlier this month she read in the Washington Post that $120,000 in "soft money" solicited by Al Gore for general party activities last year had somehow found its way into "hard money" accounts that financed individual campaigns. Reno was outraged that reporters had uncovered this potential crime by using public records, papers her own Justice Department investigators possessed but somehow had not finished combing through. Determined...
...suggest telephone talking points with donors--and records of the Federal Election Commission that show where the money went. It discovered about a dozen links that look suspicious: call sheets preceding donations that landed partly in hard accounts. Staff members at the D.N.C. were shifting the cash because soft money, designated for general party-building activities, is easier to come by: donations aren't as strictly limited in size as they are with hard money for individual races. But moving that money pushed many donors, who had already made hard-money contributions, over their legal limits. Once it was apparent...
Just as with Gore, no analysis of the President's phone log can prove Clinton knew the D.N.C. staff was mingling hard and soft accounts. Gore has already said he didn't know about the practice. Then there is the question of whether Clinton's calls were made from the White House family quarters, a bit of hairsplitting required because of disputes over whether the residential areas of the Executive mansion qualify as space used for official government duties under the law in question. Most Democrats say no. Most Republicans say yes. A final dispute: whether a phoned request...
...soft-spoken Moskowitz does not seem to care, as he determinedly follows his own conscience. One of 12 children of Polish-Jewish immigrants, he was born in New York City and moved as a child to Milwaukee, Wis. His intense Zionism grew out of immense loss: by his count, 120 of his relatives were murdered in the Holocaust. After earning a medical degree, he migrated to California, where he got into the business of buying and building small private hospitals, then selling them to large conglomerates...
...going to be difficult ? if not impossible ??to prove the president was involved with how such funds were handled at Democratic National Committee Headquarters, says TIME Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf. "No analysis of the President's phone log can prove Clinton knew the DNC staff was mingling hard and soft accounts," observes Weisskopf. But that's not daunting Justice investigators. AllPolitics reports that the inquiry is beginning with a massive computer search of White House telephone records, hoping to uncover who Clinton spoke with and whether those calls prodded any suspicious donations to the Democratic National committee...