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Christopher Shays: My point is that the administration and the DNC knew exactly who these people were, had known them for many, many long…

On the recordJuly 14, 1998
My point is that the administration and the DNC knew exactly who these people were, had known them for many, many long years, knew their contacts and I guarantee the gentleman, knew where this money came from, and walking into a Buddhist temple knowing that it was a fund-raiser and then walking out and saying, oh, well, I just really did not know it was a fund-raiser and I did not know I was getting foreign nationals is not a defense against the guilt of breaking the law, and the gentleman from Mississippi is making sure of the fact that you cannot claim blindness when there is a high probability you know that you are breaking the law.
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Christopher Shays
Connecticut

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Addressing campaign finance violations during a discussion on political fundraising.

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