Posted on 07/11/2002 3:32:36 PM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
It looks as if Pardongate witness Paul Adler has decided to pull a Webster Hubbell and "roll over one more time" rather than finger New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in the New Square, N.Y., vote-trading scam.
Adler, a Hillary 2000 fund-raiser who doubled as Mrs. Clinton's liaison to New York's Jewish community, was sentenced yesterday to 19 months in prison on influence peddling and tax fraud charges - by the same federal prosecutors who recently had to abandon their Pardongate case against Sen. Clinton.
The feds had hoped that Adler would be a key witness against the former first lady, suspecting that he could corroborate another insider who contradicted her denial that she'd played a role in negotiating presidential clemency for four imprisoned New Square rabbis.
"Prosecutors have found a witness who says the senator was present during discussions of clemency before the election," reported the New York Daily News in January, citing "sources familiar with the investigation."
After the suspected deal went down, the upstate Hasidic community voted 1400 to 12 for Sen. Clinton.
Adler, it turns out, had accompanied Mrs. Clinton on a campaign trip to New Square just three months before the election.
Naturally, the feds wanted Adler's account of what transpired, including any details from discussions that might have touched on clemency issues.
But the Rockland County, N.Y., Democrat stonewalled prosecutors from the beginning, with the Washington Post reporting in February 2001, "Adler's lawyer said his client is not cooperating with the government on the New Square matter."
Adler undoubtedly could have shortened his 19-month prison stretch had he told the feds what he knew about Hillary, but apparently his lips never loosened, resulting in yesterday's harsh sentence.
Adler's case isn't the first time a key witness went to jail rather than tell probers what he knew about Mrs. Clinton.
In 1996, congressional probers released prison tape recordings of Webster Hubbell, Mrs. Clinton's former Rose Law partner and one-time No. 2 man at the Clinton Justice Department, telling his wife Suzy that he was prepared to "roll over one more time" rather than finger the then-first lady in Whitewater crimes.
Clinton contributor James Riady had helped to secure Hubbell's silence two years earlier, with a $100,000 payment that prosecutors openly described as "hush money."
Last month, Sen. Clinton's financial disclosure statement revealed that the former first couple has been paying off lawyers for witnesses who stonewalled probers, fulfilling a promise President Clinton made publicly in 1996. (See: Clintons Make Good on Hush Money Pledge)
It's not known, however, whether Adler had his legal bills picked up by the Clintons.
Who could blame him?
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