Dr. Dean accused Mr. Kerry and President Bush of using the same "politically corrupt fund-raising mechanisms".
"We now see that Senator Kerry is not only supporting the Bush agenda on the war," Dr. Dean said, "supporting the Bush agenda on No Child Left Behind, but Senator Kerry apparently also apparently supports the kind of corrupt fund-raising, politically corrupt fund-raising mechanisms, that George Bush has also employed.
Just last month, as he made his last stand in Wisconsin, Dr. Dean said that Mr. Kerry was indistinguishable from Mr. Bush, incapable of changing Washington, and had supported "politically corrupt fund-raising mechanisms".
In May 1997, however, Mr. Freeh began urging Ms. Reno to seek the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate potentially corrupt fund-raising practices in Mr. Clinton's 1996 re-election drive.
But Mr. Kohl, who led the Christian Democrats for 25 of those years and the country for 16, treated the party as his private fief and helped turn it into a corrupt fund-raising machine.
He made overhauling the campaign finance system his central theme, and now he can refocus his energy to stop a coming orgy of corrupt fund-raising by both Democrats and Republicans.
Dr. Dean's attacks on Mr. Kerry -- on Wednesday he accused him of supporting "politically corrupt fund-raising mechanisms" and described him as being "so much like a Republican" -- now sound so harsh as to risk backfiring.
Because of this thin distinction between criminal and corrupt funds, approximately $40 billion in corrupt funds is washed through American banks each year.
A report last year by Global Witness, a campaigning group, highlighted the use of British shells as cover for allegedly corrupt funds originating in Central Asia.
In the early nineties, it was discovered that the schools were overtly corrupt — funds were routed away from the classroom, and administrative positions were being bought and sold.
