Hillary Clinton will fund raise with the worst of the worst. John Zaccaro, a convicted felon and cocaine dealer hosted a fundraiser for Clinton in Florida this past week. As usual, it was overlooked and ignored by the media.
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Hillary Clinton is drawing fire from Republicans for attending a fundraiser on Thursday night at the New York City home of onetime Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro’s son John Zaccaro Jr., who was convicted in the 1980s of selling cocaine to a female undercover police officer.
“Hillary Clinton can’t seem to kick her decades-long habit of taking money from sketchy campaign contributors,” Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Short complained on the RNC’s website. “During her last presidential campaign it was straw donors, now it’s convicted cocaine dealers.”
Back when Zaccaro was a 22-year-old student at Middlebury College in Vermont, he was sentenced as a felon after he sold a quarter gram of cocaine for $25 to a 22-year-old undercover policewoman outside the restaurant where he worked tending bar, reports from The Washington Post from the time show
At his house, police found scales, marijuana and other drug paraphernalia, and in his car, police found eight grams of cocaine, $1,475 in cash, $160 in checks, and what arresting officer called “various miscellaneous papers with drug transactions.”
Zaccaro’s lawyers called the arrest entrapment, reports The Washington Free Beacon, saying a pretty policewoman was assigned to persuade him to sell the drug.