Posted on 01/30/2007 3:59:57 PM PST by LC HOGHEAD
Pardon Scandal Still Looms for Sen. Clinton's Brother
A court-appointed bankruptcy trustee asked a federal judge this week to schedule a new court date in a case against Tony Rodham, the brother of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., accused of failing to repay $109,000 in loans from a carnival company whose owners received controversial pardons issued by President Bill Clinton in the last hours of his presidency.
According to documents filed in the case, Rodham received the loans, before and after the pardons were granted, from United Shows of America, Inc., owned by Edgar Gregory and his wife, who had been convicted of defrauding several banks.
See the loans paid to Tony Rodham and the actual checks to Tony Rodham.
A congressional report by the Republican-controlled House Reform Committee concluded Rodham "had tried to sell his access to the White House" and that "but for Tony Rodham's lobbying efforts, the Gregory pardons would not have been granted." Collins first had Rodham's accounts frozen in 2005 after Rodham failed to respond to an initial complaint filed by Collins.
The judge issued a default judgment against Rodham.
Rodham appealed, asking for more time to respond, and the judge unfroze the accounts.
"Now, of course, that's money we're going to have to find all over again," said Collins, the trustee. "I guess he wouldn't leave the money in there."
Rodham has not returned a request seeking comment from ABC News, and a woman answering his home phone in Vienna, Va., said, "He probably won't call you back."
During the investigation of the Clinton pardons, Rodham publicly maintained that he worked as a consultant for the Gregorys to help obtain contracts for the carnival business. He refused to be interviewed by congressional investigators but told Larry King on CNN in March 2001, "The Gregorys are the kind of people that the pardon system is made for."
At the time, the Gregorys said they saw nothing wrong with seeking Rodham's help to get their pardons, which were issued over objections from the Department of Justice.
According to the congressional report, Rodham was paid over $240,000 in consultant fees by United Shows in addition to the loans.
The bankruptcy trustee only seeks the return of the loan money which, with interest, he calculates at over $150,000.
At the urging of President and Mrs. Clinton in February 2001, her other brother, Hugh, promised to return some of the $400,000 he received from individuals who also were granted pardons by President Clinton in other cases.
The Clintons and their hillbilly families are the world's greatest white trash hucksters.
Biggest carnival side shoe con-artists in American history!
Biggest carnival side-show con-artists in American history!
Nobody but a Clinton (Kennedys excepted) could get away with this. And I do mean political consequences for Hillary.
Lowest class of White Trash there is.
I hope the American people don't forget this, and it comes home to ROOST and HAUNT her.
Well, brother Hugh is a pretty big man.
How appropriate. The Clintons always were a traveling circus.
Unless Hillary! wins in 08, this will be a story which the media will never try to tell. Just like the FALN terrorists, Marc Rich (who trades with terrorist nations) and drug lords who were pardoned.
Who all cheat at golf! (and everything else)
What a bunch of pigs.
The pond scum just keeps bubbling to the top, doesn't it? Somehow I just think the 3 Rodham siblings are peas in a pod. Hillary! just keeps covering her tracks better than her brothers. Maybe it's those FBI files that allow her to keep skating.
Meanwhile, which brother was married to Boxer's daughter and is the father of a Boxer grandchild?
Carnival company -- fitting.
***He refused to be interviewed by congressional investigators ****
Ok How do you refuse to be interviewed by Congressional investigators and then fail to be subpoenaed.
If those investigators were serious they would have interviewed him,by subpoena.
Who stopped the issuance of same? and why?
Where is the Senate ethics Committee.?
We need to start copying these sort of threads to the Osama Obama and Breck Girl camps, just to keep things lively for the next few months...
Is this the one they had to remove from the White House practically with a pry bar on the morning of January 20, 2001? What a bunch of low life scum.
This will be interesting. Cue the calliope music.
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