Mark Jimenez

Another figure whose name seems likely to come up in the Whitehouse Espionage (it was nothing of the sort but this is what the Mainstream Mastadons have tagged it, I will come up with a more appropriate name later on) case is Mark Jimenez.

Michelle Malkin wrote an article on him for the Jewish World Review back in 2001:

Jimenez is a Philippines-born hustler who came to the U.S. in the mid-1980s. He established Future Tech International, a computer firm that exported parts to lucrative markets in Latin America, and settled in Miami. Jimenez's multi-million-dollar fortune bought him easy access to the Clinton-Gore White House and other cash-starved Democratic campaigns.

Jimenez first met Bill Clinton in 1994, according to the Wall Street Journal, and soon after contributed more than $800,000 to various Democrat causes. Jimenez golfed with Clinton, socialized with now-U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, and attended one of the infamous fund-raising coffee klatches at the White House. He lobbied the administration on behalf of Paraguay, where his firm had major business interests. A month after the coffee meeting, Clinton allowed the country to continue receiving U.S. aid despite restrictions on other Latin American governments that fail to control cocaine smuggling.

Source: Michelle Malkin for Jewish World Review - Bill & Hill & Bob & Ted's fugitive pal

This Mark Jimenez is who Wretchard speculates

(Speculation alert) One might reasonably ask how Joseph Estrada and Panfilo Lacson recruited a spy in the White House. Estrada's most notorious route of access into the 1999 White House was through Mark Jimenez, sentenced to two years in a Miami jail for federal election fraud in 2003. His sentence coincidentally, will be completely served this month.

Source: The Belmont Club - Spy in the White House

One other person involved in all of this is a certain Michael Ray Aquino. Mr. Aquino seems to be a very interesting character.

It all is beginning to read like a mobster movie script. Politicians with serious gambling debts, mysterious figures paying off those debts and contributing to campaigns in other lands. Publicists getting rubbed out for speaking out against organized criminals, dirty tricks campaigns against other Presidents.