tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post3634263079550988626..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: April 12, 1972Jonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-60792946004354166762012-04-16T18:38:42.798-05:002012-04-16T18:38:42.798-05:00Got it, thanks very much.Got it, thanks very much.Professor Jeff Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00282906964800653240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-21432824562053141602012-04-16T10:55:15.158-05:002012-04-16T10:55:15.158-05:00Sorry, didn't get to this over the weekend...
...Sorry, didn't get to this over the weekend...<br /><br />I don't think it was all Gemstone. I think there were two parts, but I'm not quite sure of either. Incoming money: some people might not have wanted a record of a check to CRP, and in some cases CRP wouldn't want a record of a check from them. Outgoing money: beginning April 7, all expenditures by the campaign committee had to be disclosed. Obviously you wouldn't want to disclose breaking into the DNC, but you also might not want to disclose some legit spending. Converting it all to cash outside the accounting of the campaign allowed them to do that. It also may have been a good way for the WH to keep more direct control of some of the money.Jonathan Bernsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-91933831581808907032012-04-14T14:56:43.835-05:002012-04-14T14:56:43.835-05:00I'm a little unclear on something here. CReeP ...I'm a little unclear on something here. CReeP needed money laundered anyway, and Liddy was tasked with that, separately from what he then went to spend it on? So, if not for GEMSTONE, they would have been spending laundered money on lawn signs and stuff? Or was it GEMSTONE that led to the laundering?Professor Jeff Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00282906964800653240noreply@blogger.com