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Money, observed former presidential candidate Paul Tsongas as he withdrew from the race for the White House last March, is the mother's milk of politics. According to federal officials, Tsongas' chief fund raiser and longtime friend, Nicholas A. Rizzo Jr., illegally siphoned off a lot of that milk for himself in what appears to be the biggest campaign-fund fraud case in U.S. history. In a 46-count indictment, they accused Rizzo, 59, of illegally taking more than $1 million meant for the cash-starved Tsongas campaign. Rizzo pleaded not guilty...
Tribe said he withdrew from the case to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, since he would have been representing a private party while being considered for a government post...
...floated the name of New York Federal District Judge Kimba Wood to coax any opposition out into the open. When none emerged, word leaked from the White House that the Wood nomination was almost a sure thing. Then last Friday night came the awful deja vu. Again, a woman withdrew her name from consideration for the post. Again, the conflict involved an illegal alien. Again, an acute embarrassment for the Clinton Administration...
...allowed citizens to hire illegal aliens. Moreover, Wood said she had paid all the requisite taxes and filed all the required papers. What spooked the Clinton Administration was the fear that the public would fail to see the difference between the two cases. After Wood withdrew her name last week, her supporters and the Clinton Adminstration offered two distinctly different accounts of what had gone wrong, and when...
...alien baby-sitter. Wood explained that when she hired the woman from Trinidad in 1986, it was not unlawful. "I made all required filings and payments," said Wood, and the baby-sitter became a legal resident in 1987. No matter. With a push from a jittery White House, Wood withdrew her name. (See related story on page...