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Please Return to Sender.(Republican Party return donation to diet company Essante)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Was an international arms dealer attempting to buy influence with the new Bush administration? That question, NEWSWEEK has learned, recently prompted Republican Party officials to return $100,000 donated by Utah- based diet company Essante. The company's sole principal is Sonia Falcone, whose husband, Pierre Falcone, was arrested last month by French police on charges of influence peddling, misappropriation of funds and tax fraud.
Falcone and Arcadi Gaydamak, a Russian businessman now reported to be living in Israel, stand accused of funneling $1.8 million into the Swiss-bank account of Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, the son of former French president Francois Mitterrand (Mitterrand denies all wrongdoing). Authorities say the money was allegedly a commission for help arranging a $500 million weapons sale to Angola. News of the scandal stunned many residents ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 30, 2007 700+ words
...Arizona for a false story involving Sonia Falcone, as well as a related Associated Press...on their web site. Specifically: *Sonia Falcone did not plead guilty for employing...Phoenix media mistakes in recent memory, Sonia Falcone is in no way involved with the recent...
- Businesswoman-Philanthropist Sonia Falcone to Receive Honorary Doctorate.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 18, 2001 700+ words
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonia Falcone, resident of Paradise Valley in Scottsdale, Ariz., will receive an Honorary Doctorate degree from Anaheim, Calif.-based...
- Periscope.(US Periscope)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek January 29, 2001 700+ words
...That question, NEWSWEEK has learned, recently prompted Republican Party officials to return $100,000 in "soft money" from an...week after the election. The company's sole principal is Sonia Falcone, whose husband, Pierre Falcone, was arrested last month...
- Riordan's Bumpy Ride.(Republican Party conservatives courted)
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal FINE, HOWARD September 3, 2001 700+ words
...Next up: a whirlwind courtship of Republican Party conservatives. The outcome of that...which begins next week with the Republican Party convention in Los Angeles, followed...He will need supporters among the Republican Party apparatus, especially in the primary...
- Texas Republican Party May Have Spent Campaign Funds Improperly.
- News wire article from: Houston Chronicle (Houston, TX) April 25, 2004 700+ words
...25--AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas Republican Party went on a drive during the last major...from other sources. But the state Republican Party transferred its corporate donations...spending corporate money, the Texas Republican Party raised $929,000 from corporations...
- Will the Republican Party in Minnesota endorse judges this year?
- Magazine article from: Minnesota Lawyer May 29, 2006 700+ words
...Barbara L. Jones The Minnesota Republican Party last week had just begun the process...S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Republican Party, et al. v. White, et al. have...to Bonn Clayton, the chair of the Republican Party's Judicial Election Committee...
- Probe targets GOP finances: It appears money meant for the state Republican...
- Newspaper article from: Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK) September 21, 2007 700+ words
...OKLAHOMA CITY -- The head of the state Republican Party confirmed Thursday that the State...The attorney informed the state Republican Party that "some people have received letters...lawmakers and the Oklahoma County Republican Party do not appear to add up. The county...
- George Washington U.: COLUMN: What has happened to the Republican Party?
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 19, 2005 700+ words
...back in the good old days when the Republican Party stood for limited government, lower...fading. Today's version of the Republican Party, epitomized through the policies...their positions on social issues. The Republican Party was founded on the belief of the importance...
- REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES PARTICIPATE IN A DEBATE SPONSORED BY CNN,...
- News wire article from: Political/Congressional Transcript Wire November 29, 2007 700+ words
...SPONSORED BY CNN, YOUTUBE AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF FLORIDA NOVEMBER 28, 2007 SPEAKERS...BORGER, CNN JOHN KING, CNN FLORIDA REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRMAN JIM GREER [*] GREER: Welcome...presidential debate, co-sponsored by the Republican Party of Florida. It is my pleasure tonight...
- Afghan Republican Party leader rejects merger with other parties.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire August 1, 2004 700+ words
...past, says leader of the Afghanistan Republican Party, Sebghatollah Sanjar"; published...Weekly on 28 July The Afghanistan Republican Party is among the first political parties...Sanjar said about his party "the Republican Party of Afghanistan was founded secretly...
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