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 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sen. Hillary Clinton's former finance director panicked when costs for a celebrity-studded 2000 fundraising gala mounted and lied to the government to conceal it, a federal prosecutor told jurors in his opening statement Wednesday.
David Rosen deliberately caused campaign finance reports to be filed with the Federal Election Commission that claimed "in-kind" contributions of $400,000 for the Hollywood gala, when he knew that contributions exceeded $1.1 million, said Peter Zeidenberg of the U.S. Justice Department's public integrity division.
Rosen has pleaded not guilty to three counts of making false statements to the FEC. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison and a $750,000 fine.
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