Long Weekend

May your Memorial Day weekend be more like David Rosen’s, and less like the weekend of whoever it is over at the Justice Department decided to prosecute him.

See you Tuesday.

Rosen Acquitted

Hillary aide David Rosen was acquitted in Los Angeles today on both remaining counts.

Sounds like Rosen lawyer Paul Sandler’s line on a prosecution witness — “so low in my opinion that he could crawl under the belly of a snake wearing a top hat” — did the trick.

Rosen Is Racked: Clinton Hondler On Trial In L.A.

At first, the case against David Rosen was little short of unreal: He was the target of a civil suit filed by a prison inmate in Brazil. His co-defendant was Bill Clinton.

Then, one morning early in 2003, a half-dozen F.B.I. agents raided his office in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, according to one Read More

In Today’s Observer

We profile David Rosen, the Clinton fund-raiser on trial in Los Angeles.

We also try to untangle the troubled Sharpton-Ferrer relationship. And we claim partial, er, credit for starting the trouble.

Matt Schuerman explores Governor Pataki’s, so far fruitless, efforts to wring money for a rail tunnel out of his Republican allies Read More

Help Solve Hillary Mystery!

The prosecutors looking into Hillary Clinton’s 2000 fundraising seem to have given the Sun a lead on a serious political mystery.

The details of the Clinton case are extremely technical, but leaked prosecution court filings reveal a “mystery witness” in the case against Clinton fundraiser David Rosen. This witness is a family member Read More