Posted on 10/08/2007 9:43:35 PM PDT by STARWISE
A lawsuit accusing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother of failing to repay debts to a Tennessee carnival operator has been settled.
Tony Rodham was accused of failing to repay $107,000 plus interest to the bankrupt estate of Edgar Allen Gregory Jr. and his wife, Vonna Jo, both of whom received a presidential pardon in 2000.
The case was scheduled to go to trial on Thursday, but the parties reached a settlement agreement, said Rodham attorney Samuel Crocker. The terms were not disclosed.
Rodham had claimed in court documents the money he received from the Gregorys was for consulting services, but the trustee for the Gregory estate said it was a loan.
The Gregorys received pardons for a bank fraud conviction from President Clinton about two years after Rodham became a paid consultant to United Shows of America, a carnival business the couple owned.
Rodham has said he talked to his brother-in-law about the pardon, but he said President Clinton made the decision to grant clemency on the merits of their case.
After President Clinton left office, the Republican-controlled House Committee on Government Reform found that United Shows paid Rodham $240,000 for undocumented consulting services and that President Clinton was interested in the pardons solely because of his contacts with Rodham.
Hillary Clinton, a New York senator, has said her brother was not paid for his help with the Gregorys' pardon.
Another brother, Hugh Rodham, was paid more than $400,000 for his successful efforts to win pardons for a businessman under investigation for money laundering and a commutation for a convicted drug trafficker. He eventually returned the money at his sister's request.
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Didn't see it, hear about it or find it posted here. Funny .. do you think it was stuck waaaaaaay in the back pages of news AP covers?? /sarc
Sweeping up the messes ~~ PING!
Ooopsie
How die we miss this ?? = How DID we miss this ??
Must get everything tidied up before the MSM starts looking into Hillary’s! past. Oh, wait, they don’t care about all the corruption in the Clinton’s past, do they?
Flashback .. more Clinton character .. must be in the genes.
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Roger & Rosario
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york042302.asp
“In the summer of 1998 — at about the same time Bill Clinton’s sex-and-perjury scandal was reaching its crescendo — Roger Clinton’s efforts attracted the attention of the FBI, which tried to set up a sting operation in the case, only to be frustrated by a political appointee on the commission who feared that independent-counsel Kenneth Starr was behind the investigation (he wasn’t).
The story, in all its intriguing and sometimes comical detail — what was the actor George Hamilton doing with a briefcase full of Rolex watches? — is told in “Justice Undone: Clemency Decisions in the Clinton White House,” an impressively comprehensive report by the House Government Reform Committee that has so far received far less attention than it deserves.”
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Clinton’s Money Trail
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york032002.shtml
“Among them are new revelations about the tangled finances of the former president’s brother, Roger Clinton.
In the course of the pardon investigation, committee lawyers uncovered unexplained deposits of hundreds of thousands of dollars in blank traveler’s checks in his bank account.
They also found evidence that Clinton — a rock and roll singer, but never a terribly successful one — was paid enormous sums by foreign governments for performances overseas. And they discovered a $15,000 money transfer from Bill Clinton to his brother at a time when Roger Clinton faced growing pressure to tell authorities what he knew about the pardon matter.
Blank Checks
When committee investigators examined Roger Clinton’s bank records for the years 1998 to 2000, they discovered that he had deposited large numbers of traveler’s checks from foreign countries into his bank account — money that appeared to have nothing to do with Clinton’s attempts to win pardons for friends and associates in the last months of his brother’s administration.
According to the committee’s report, the traveler’s checks were blank when they were given to Roger Clinton; he both signed and countersigned them when depositing them into his account. “Usually, the individual who purchases traveler’s checks signs them when they are purchased, so that they cannot be stolen or used by an unauthorized individual,” the report notes.
“The fact that the buyer [of the traveler’s checks] did not sign them and gave them to Clinton blank suggests that the funds were intentionally provided to Clinton in a manner calculated to conceal their origin.”
The Clinton Chinese Mafia could leave a ring in the Ocean.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I suppose they had a fair amount of empathy for carnies, being the grifters they’ve always been. What is it with Democrats and carnies, anyway? Meg Scott Phipps, Democrat, former State Agricultural Commissioner in North Carolina, did prison time in association with her shady carnie dealings. She’s the daughter of a former NC governor, too.
Not holding my breath that any Clinton embarrassment or illegality will ever receive appropriate MSM attention. Just not going to happen. Her Democrat primary opponents are the least likely to go after her.
Hillary is a bigger con artist than her trailer trash brother. She just gets better press. Could these grifters be any more loathsome?
No, the Republicans are the least likely to go after her.
We didn't. How did you miss all three of these threads?
Hillary Clinton's Brother Settles Lawsuit With Tennessee Carnival Operator
Hillary Clinton's Brother Settles Lawsuit
Lawsuit against Clinton's brother expected to be settled (Rodham = Crook)
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hey yaya, did you go to laura ingraham booksigning in alpharetta
last saturday?
wife-o’buckhead
I’m still surprised that a Rodham and a carny couldn’t settle this case as a matter of professional courtesy.
You can’t make this sh-t up!
Was she the daughter of Bob Scott? I remember him as governor of NC when I was a kid....he was fairly well regarded by both parties as I remember!
Yes. She embarassed a fine Alamance County family with her sordid money grubbing. It's not as if they didn't already have a fair amount.
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