Despite his growing disillusionment with Scientology, he also raised a significant amount of money for it, and made sizable donations himself, appearing frequently on an honor roll of top contributors.
The donations: Fieger himself donated $4,000, and Johnson gave $2,000 to Edwards, according to FEC records.
The Torahs were then provided to others by a charity he had co-founded and which, prosecutors said, he defrauded by seeking reimbursement for doctored or inflated expenses or by diverting donations to himself.
Mr. Silvester, who pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges in 2000, has testified that he invested state pension funds with certain firms to help get jobs for former staff members and campaign donations for himself and Gov. John G. Rowland.
Mr. Schumer acknowledges that his evolution on the issue has not been without some anguish as he navigates gingerly between the financial patrons he has mined for millions in campaign donations for himself and his party, and constituents who were hurt by the economic collapse.
"It has the potential to transfer donations to himself and his children".
Except, of course, for Freiling, who paid a fifth of the donations to himself, and for WND, which appears to have a claim on any future donations.
He also returned the $25,000 before the meeting though Kasowitz later bundled $50,000 in donations from himself and others for Vance.
Hamm's political adviser, Mike Cantrell, said in an email on Thursday afternoon that Hamm had intended to break up the donations between himself and his wife, Sue Ann Hamm, which he said would have ensured that Hamm remained under legal contribution limits.
