J Street backer Bill Benter bankrolling pro-Hagel campaign

I guess George Soros is a little short on cash. Hong Kong based gambler Bill Benter, whose secretary, Consolacion Esdicul, donated most of J Street's budget in 2008-9, is bankrolling the fight to make Chuck Hagel the next Secretary of Defense of the United States.

But over the last two weeks, Hagel's friends in the
Democratic political world have come to his aid, principally by rounding up