Posted on 05/30/2005 6:15:24 AM PDT by Renfield
The name Vignali receded into L.A. history after the “Pardongate” scandal of 2001, but questions remain about drug-dealing son Carlos and his real estate magnate father, Horacio, who just might be pulling the strings in the remaking of downtown L.A.
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“Justice Undone: Clemency Decisions in the Clinton White House,” House Report 107-454, documents the involvement of Hugh Rodham, the brother of Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the Vignali affair. Rodham was Horacio Vignali’s chief lobbyist inside the White House and received more than $200,000 for his services. The two met through Los Angeles attorney James Casso in October 2000, according to Los Angeles real estate broker Luis Valenzuela, who was copied on Vignali’s check to Rodham.
Released in March 2002 by the Congressional Committee on Government Reform, the report is part primer on executive privilege, part investigation of Vignali’s clemency, among others, and part indictment of the officials involved with the whole debacle. The report states that in 2001, after being stonewalled by the Bush administration, the committee received documents “inadvertently” released by the National Archives and Records Administration, including a report by White House pardon attorney Roger Adams objecting to clemency for Vignali. DEA documents pertaining to Horacio Vignali were attached. A follow-up investigative story by the Times’ Ted Rohrlich finally addressed what Wehr, Adams, Reilly and Dunne had known all along, and what Mayorkas and Baca claimed they had no reason to know: that the DEA long suspected Horacio Vignali was a major drug trafficker with ties to organized crime.
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(Excerpt) Read more at laweekly.com ...
H.Rpt.107-454,Vol.2 JUSTICE UNDONE: CLEMENCY DECISIONS IN THE CLINTON WHITE HOUSE
H.Rpt.107-454,Vol.3 JUSTICE UNDONE: CLEMENCY DECISIONS IN THE CLINTON WHITE HOUSE
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"I did not have any involvement in the pardons that were granted or not granted," insisted Sen. KnowNothing, seeming to forget her presence at the New-Square/Oval-Office schmooze that secured pardons for the four Hasidic felons who set up a phony school in Brooklyn to swindle the government out of millions intended for the poor. Mia T  |
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