Hillary Donor Indicted For Money Laundering
Since I was blogging about money laundering today, I looked up a case I’ve been following for a while now. Woo-hoo! Remember Mauricio Celis? This might jog your memory:
In that September incident, Celis allegedly attempted to “take into custody” a nude woman at 4 a.m. outside a Corpus Christi convenience store while dressed only in a bathrobe and waving a sheriff’s badge from nearby Duval County.
Well, back in January they raided his office with a search warrant for evidence of money laundering, and since then we’ve been expecting the other Hsu to drop on this TCD*. Yesterday there was an audible clunk from the courthouse in Corpus Christi:
A Nueces County grand jury handed up two indictments Friday against former law firm operator Mauricio Celis, charging him with money laundering and impersonating a lawyer. The money laundering charge is a first-degree felony punishable by five years to life in prison.
Now, it’s a little bit of a disappointment, because the original search warrant for Celis thought he was laundering drug money for the Mexican cartels:
Would have been sweet, but that doesn’t seem to be the charge underlying the money-laundering indictments.
State law defines money laundering as acquiring or transferring money through the commission of a crime. The crime to which Valdez and the Texas Attorney General’s Office link the money transfer is impersonating a lawyer.
Well, I think they’ve got him dead-bang on that. What occupation did he list when he donated to Hillary and the Democrats?
“Attorney”. If he now claims he lied to the FCCFEC about his occupation, he’s kind of in a pickle there, too. And there may be more to come:
[DA Carlos] Valdez called the case unique in Nueces County history.
“This is just the tip of a very, very big iceberg,” Valdez said. “There’s no way we can delve into all that’s happened.”
Oh, delve! Delve, I say!
*Typical Clinton Donor.
AM UPDATE: BTW, I don’t expect this story to get a lot of coverage outside conservative circles unless Hillary is slow in giving back the money he raised for her. Maybe I’m wrong, though, and Obama will run with it. It’s already had some effect in Texas, where an association with Celis may have driven one Democratic challenger to Senator Cornyn, Mikal Watts, from the race.
While the Hillary donor angle is the most interesting, by the way, he’s a big donor to many different Democrats. Not a Hsu-sized mega-donor by any means, but significant. You can check his contributions on the FEC website.
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This typical Clinton donor will most likely get a typical MSM ‘nothing to see here, move along’ reaction.
I see from your investigation that Mauricio donated the usual $2,300.00 to Hillary Clinton, but slipped an extra $69.00 to Bob Menendez.
I wonder if that extra “69″ was really slated for Jim “Rest Stop” McGreevey or Elliot “Bareback” Spitzer?
.. and America rejects a patriot like Tom Tancredo. Go figure!
It’s always something with the Klintons.
I hope Valdez proceeds carefully and builds a solid case.
Nice catch see-dubya.
Whether it’s a guy pretending to be a lawyer or an actual scumbag lawyer like Dickie Scruggs, most politicians make no distinction about who they take money from. If it’s green it’s clean.
It only becomes a problem when the lame stream media makes it to be so.
Leo Bloom: Let’s assume, just for the moment, that you are a dishonest man.
Max Bialystock: Assume away.
PBoilermark …
I suspect you will be proved correct as regards the MSM … but with any luck Limbaugh, Hannity and Ingraham will pick up on it and pursue it on talk radio and FNC …
I agree with PBOILERMAKER and DESERTLOVER, and don’t expect much from the MSM. They’ll just sweep it under the rug as usual.
The Texas media is reporting it. Isn’t this something Obama or his people should be touting?
Mauricio Celis?
Isn’t he the guy behind those annoying erectile disfunction commercials we see on tv all the time?
Maybe this will be the one to finally sink the S.S. Clintanic, but somehow Hillay will manage to get in a lifeboat for a while.
You would think that this would happen. However, Obama doesn’t have the brass to put the final torpedo into the ship.
THERE ARE NO ANNOYING COMMERCIALS ON TV.
Iceberg? He IS talking about Hillery!
JHS, I think Mauricio hopes every guy in the prison has E.D., for his sake. HEH !
While I’d love for Kevin Martin to do anything useful, I’m quite sure this doesn’t fall under his purview. I’m also quite sure he’d probably ignore it if it did.
Given the fact that the Clintons have been getting millions in illegal donations from the Chinese for decades, I think you folks are a little optimistic thinking a little small change from one illegally employed Hispanic are going to mean anything. Unless there’s more to the story than this quote, at least the campaign donation seems to be legal, even if his self-identificaton wasn’t.
I expect we’ll get news when we least expect it, that Valdez was found dead, as a result of…
a) suicide
b) traffic accident, or
c) mysterious circumstances
History has a funny way of repeating itself when a Clinton is involved.
Whether this gets any coverage in MSM will be telling.
A year ago this would have been completely ignored, but now that the vast majority of the MSM is in the tank for BO, it could get a mention, especially from wackos like Olbermann or Matthews.
If it does, that is further evidence that the bloom is off the rose regarding the Klintoons.
Of course, if Hil-Rod was able to pull off getting the nomination, the MSM would come back to her as fawning and supplicating as they were before.
MSM — thy name is Democrat party toady.
“This is just the tip of a very, very big iceberg,” Valdez said. “There’s no way we can delve into all that’s happened.”
What an UNDERSTATEMENT! There’s NO WAY we could EVER find out ALL the amazing, sleazy, illegal, unethical, CRAP that the DEMOCRATS have been involved in over the years.
#16–Fixed. Thanks. Derrrrrrh.
Here’s a glimpse of that “iceberg”, by the way:
More details about the naked lady in Celis’s hot tub there too.
Tried to apprehend a nude woman when wearing only a bathrobe? Talk about a private dick!
That depends on whether he wants to risk a counterattack on Rezko.
If there is anything going on related to that, I doubt he says much.
Words you won’t hear repeated by Democrats anytime soon:
C u l t u r e
o f
c o r r u p t i o n
I doubt that the MSM is going to say much on this one….but it could resurface in the general election.
They’re too busy making up lies about McCain to worry about Hilary’s dirt.
Maybe they feel sorry for her because she’s a woman.
Since when is it illegal to apprehend a nude woman?
When she is trying to escape an attempted rape.
I would not be surprised if he has turned state’s evidence on the Gulf Cartel money laundering in exchange for not being indicted for that. Either that, or the Democrat Nueces county DA chose not to pursue those charges to keep from opening a can of worms that one of his supporters might crawl out of.
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