Those Fail to Heed History....

Are doomed to repeat it.

A Pakistani immigrant who hosted fundraisers in Southern California for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is being sought by the FBI on charges that he funneled illegal contributions to Clinton's political action committee and Sen. Barbara Boxer's 2004 reelection campaign.

Authorities say Northridge businessman Abdul Rehman Jinnah, 56, fled the country after an indictment accused him of engineering more than $50,000 in illegal donations to the Democratic committees. A business associate charged as a co-conspirator has entered a guilty plea and is scheduled to be sentenced in Los Angeles next week.

A federal law enforcement source said prosecutors had not dealt with the political committees in conducting their investigation and had no evidence that the committees knew the contributions were illegal.

This particular incident probably won't, in itself, damage Clinton too much. The problem is that this appears to part of a larger pattern of the donors Clinton and her husband have associated with in the past.

The LA Times story takes pains to note that the Clinton committee did not know of hte illegal reimbursement scheme, and they probably didn't. But that may not matter.