Call for FEC to investigate John O'Neill's law firm

[Memekiller]

The following notarized letter was sent to the FEC today calling for an investigation of illegal campaign contributions to Republicans by John O'Neill's law firm.



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Office of General Counsel

Federal Election Commission

999 E Street, NW

Washington, DC 20463
[phone]





To whom it may concern:



I am writing to inform you of possible illegal campaign contributions given to Republican candidates by the law firm Clements O’Neill, Pierce, Wilson & Fulkerson. On the August 17th edition of Special Report with Brit Hume, one of the law firm’s partners, John E. O’Neill, was asked about more than $14,000 the Center for Responsive Politics documented him giving to Republican candidates. O’Neill responded that “about half of them were mine” and later said “I simply didn’t give them.”



On the same show, John O’Neill said his law partner Edward J. O’Neill probably gave those donations. It simply defies belief that seven different people on seven different occasions could have mistakenly transcribed the name “Edward J. O’Neill” as the exact name of one of his law partners. Whoever gave this money would have had to have done so under the name “John E. O’Neill”. As I understand it, donating money using someone else’s identity is a clear violation of federal election law.



If John O’Neill’s name appears on any of the original checks or paperwork for a donation he did not personally make, it would be proof of a crime and warrant an investigation.



Sincerely,









Dylan Otto Krider

Comments

John O'Neill is the author of Unfit for Command, which has gotten a lot of press lately for its claims that John Kerry faked his war medals. The FEC records surfaced after O'Neill denied to Chris Matthews on Hardball that he was a Republican and claimed to have voted for Perot twice.

Simply put, the only possible way the FEC could conclude that a crime has not been committed is to find that O'Neill lied about not having made these donations.

Below are the donations made in his name in the public record:

Contributor Candidate or PAC Amount Date
O'Neill, John Mr
Houston, TX 77019
Clements O'Neill/Attorney SAND, DUANE (R)
House (ND 00)
FRIENDS OF DUANE SAND $2000 03/12/04
O'NEILL, JOHN E
HOUSTON, TX 77019
CLEMENTS O'NEILL PIERCE & NICKENS WAREING, PETER STAUB (R)
House (TX 31)
PETER WAREING FOR CONGRESS $1000 06/07/99
O'NEILL, JOHN E
HOUSTON, TX 77019
ATTORNEY IZZARD, RUDY (R)
House (TX 17)
TEXANS FOR RUDY IZZARD $250 10/13/98
O'NEILL, JOHN E
HOUSTON, TX 77019
CLEMENTS O'NEILL PIERCE & NICKENS PERRY, BRENT CLARK (R)
House (TX 25)
PERRY FOR CONGRESS $1000 07/03/96
O'NEILL, JOHN E
HOUSTON, TX 77019
TEXAS REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE AKA TEXAS VICTORY 2002 (R) $2500 12/13/94
O'NEILL, JOHN E
HOUSTON, TX 77019
TEXAS REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE AKA TEXAS VICTORY 2002 (R) $2500 07/26/93
O'NEILL, JOHN E
HOUSTON, TX 77019
TEXAS REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE AKA TEXAS VICTORY 2002 (R) $1000 10/27/92
O'NEILL, JOHN E
HOUSTON, TX 77019 BUSH, GEORGE (R)
President
BUSH - QUAYLE '92 PRIMARY COMMITTEE INC $1000 04/27/92
O'NEILL, JOHN E
HOUSTON, TX 77019
PORTER & CLEMENTS ERVIN, CLARK KENT (R)
House (TX 29)
CLARK KENT ERVIN FOR CONGRESS $1000 03/31/92
O'NEILL, JOHN E
HOUSTON, TX 77019
PORTER & CLEMENTS ERVIN, CLARK KENT (R)
House (TX 29)
CLARK KENT ERVIN FOR CONGRESS $1000 10/07/91
O'NEILL, JOHN E
HOUSTON, TX 77019 SHINE, HUGH D (R)
House (TX 11)
FRIENDS OF HUGH D SHINE U S CONGRESS $400 10/31/90
O'NEILL, JOHN E
HOUSTON, TX 77019 SHINE, HUGH D (R)
House (TX 11)
A TRIBUTE TO RONALD REAGAN $1000 10/31/90


Last Updated ( Thursday, 02 September 2004 )

[Jo March]

1. A tribute to Ronald Reagan - bleck

He should be smacked upside the head for that one.

[librechik]

2. Yay! Go get those Bush Bastards! n/t