Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Obama campaign returning funds tied to Mexican fugitive

Obama campaign returning funds tied to Mexican fugitive: U.S. President Barack Obama campaign has returned more than $ 200,000 in donations from the family of the fugitive oligarch casino-related violence and corruption in Mexico, which is looking for forgiveness, the Obama campaign confirmed Tuesday.

"More than 1.3 million Americans have donated to the campaign, and we continually review these contributions to all the questions," Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said in an e-mail when new York Times report on the decision of Nova appeared on Monday night.

"Based on these questions, we will return the contributions of these individuals and other donors that they made in the campaign," said LaBolt.

Brothers and Carlos Alberto Rojas Cardona, who lives and works in Chicago, began to collect money for the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee last fall, the New York Times, adding that it had no stories to political donations.

Their brother, Juan Jose Rojas Cardona, also known as Pepe Cardona, jumped bail in Iowa in 1994 and disappeared, fleeing charges of drug trafficking and fraud in the United States, The New York Times.

Funds received by Alberto Cardona put in the upper levels to raise funds, as is well known bundlers, according to a list published last month, the campaign Times.

Cable in the State Department in 2009 said Pepe Cardona suspected of secretly murdering a rival business and making illegal campaign donations from Mexican officials, the article says.

The New York Times quoted officials say the Obama campaign says most donations of about $ 200,000 came from the brothers themselves Cardona and other relatives. The campaign has been the identification of other donations are believed to account for less than $ 100,000, which was introduced from other people, the newspaper said.

Last year, brothers Carlos Cardona, a former president, organized the Iowa Democratic Party to seek a pardon from the governor of Pepe Cardona, The New York Times referring to the prosecution of Iowa. The report says there is forgiveness.

(By comparison, Joan Allen, edited by Chris Wilson)

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