Novelist Cornwell tied to Clinton presidential campaign probe

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Washington Times:

Novelist Patricia Cornwell, billed as America’s No. 1 crime writer, is entangled in a real-life federal investigation into the expenditure of tens of thousand of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, court records show.

Evan Snapper, a former wealth manager awaiting sentencing in federal court in Washington, D.C., for illegal campaign donations, says he helped funnel campaign contributions as a favor to Ms. Cornwell, once an important and powerful client of his firm, according to a sentencing memo filed Friday.

“Mr. Snapper has acknowledged he took those steps on his own initiative to conceal the true purpose of the payments for political contributions, in order to protect his client,” the memo said.

But lawyers for Ms. Cornwell, who has not been charged with any wrongdoing in the government’s campaign finance probe, say they believe Snapper falsely accused her in the bundling of illegal campaign cash for the Clinton campaign after she sued him.