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Another Clinton Bundler Accused of Reimbursing Donors

Brody Mullins, the Wall Street Journal reporter who first broke the Norman Hsu story, turns over another rock in the consecreated HillRaiser garden (where Hsu's name remains, by the way).

When Hillary Rodham Clinton held an intimate fund-raising event at her Washington home in late March, Pamela Layton donated $4,600, the maximum allowed by law, to Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign.

But the 37-year-old Ms. Layton says she and her husband were reimbursed by her husband's boss for the donations. "It wasn't personal money. It was all corporate money," Mrs. Layton said outside her home here. "I don't even like Hillary. I'm a Republican."

The boss is William Danielczyk, founder of a Washington-area private-equity firm and a major fund-raising "bundler" for Mrs. Clinton. Mrs. Layton's gift was one of more than a dozen donations that night from people with Republican ties or no history of political giving. Mr. Danielczyk and his family, employees and friends donated a total of $120,000 to Mrs. Clinton in the days around the fund-raiser.

Read it all.  The rabbit hole runneth deep.

The Journal reported yesterday that the SEC has launched an investigation into the Hsu scandal, in response to the discovery of the involvement of a New York investment firm.

You, as an alert Suitably Flip reader, knew this a week ago.

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Another Clinton Bundler Accused of Reimbursing Donors

Brody Mullins, the Wall Street Journal reporter who first broke the Norman Hsu story, turns over another rock in the consecreated HillRaiser garden (where Hsu's name remains, by the way).

When Hillary Rodham Clinton held an intimate fund-raising event at her Washington home in late March, Pamela Layton donated $4,600, the maximum allowed by law, to Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign.

But the 37-year-old Ms. Layton says she and her husband were reimbursed by her husband's boss for the donations. "It wasn't personal money. It was all corporate money," Mrs. Layton said outside her home here. "I don't even like Hillary. I'm a Republican."

The boss is William Danielczyk, founder of a Washington-area private-equity firm and a major fund-raising "bundler" for Mrs. Clinton. Mrs. Layton's gift was one of more than a dozen donations that night from people with Republican ties or no history of political giving. Mr. Danielczyk and his family, employees and friends donated a total of $120,000 to Mrs. Clinton in the days around the fund-raiser.

Read it all.  The rabbit hole runneth deep.

The Journal reported yesterday that the SEC has launched an investigation into the Hsu scandal, in response to the discovery of the involvement of a New York investment firm.

You, as an alert Suitably Flip reader, knew this a week ago.