But if they [Schmidt's lawyers] hoped the controversy over taking $30,000 in campaign "blood money to deny the genocide of Christian Armenians by Muslin Turks" during World War I will go away soon, they failed miserably.
Either way, Schmidt's "false statements" complaints against Krikorian remain unresolved before the Ohio Elections Commission. Five commission members heard six hours of testimony and legal debate before adjourning the case until Oct. 1.
California attorney Mark Geragos - calling himself a "stealth Armenian" whose family name was shortened from Geragosian - used e-mails and other documents to show how campaign money was solicited - and possibly laundered - via lobbyists, Turkish businessmen and other "registered foreign agents" of Turkey.
Geragos' team of lawyers flipped through an inch-thick file of exhibits linking Turkish political action committees to Turkish coalitions, corporations, a legal defense fund headed by one of Schmidt's lawyers and various members of Congress.
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