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Sandy Berger, former national security adviser to ex-president Bill Clinton, is poised to join hedge fund DB Zwirn as a special adviser.DB Zwirn, a US-based investment fund, is thought to have hired Mr Berger to gain access to his network of business and government contacts as it eyes new investment opportunities. The hedge fund, whose strategies include investing in M&A arbitrage, debt and mezzanine finance, is considering making infrastructure asset investments. Mr Berger would be expected to help with introductions to various government officials.Mr Berger served as deputy assistant to the US president for national security during Mr Clinton's first...

<p>October 10, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton was showered with pricey gifts while he was in office from the leaders of Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, but he didn't disclose them because they were earmarked for his presidential library in Arkansas, a new report yesterday revealed.</p>

Ex-medical examiner unable to testify Joan Wood has resurfaced, but says stress prevents her from appearing in court about several murder cases. By WILLIAM R. LEVESQUE, Times Staff Writer © St. Petersburg Times published August 23, 2002 GAINESVILLE -- Dr. Joan Wood virtually disappeared after she was forced into retirement as Pinellas-Pasco medical examiner in late 2000. She dodged subpoenas to testify in murder cases about autopsies. She didn't answer her phone or knocks on her front door. To this day, defense attorneys can't locate her. Defense attorney Michael Schwartzberg of St. Petersburg said he has never had so much...

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,...

Bill and Hillary Clinton have finally made good on a 1996 pledge to pay off witnesses who stuck by them throughout the scandal investigations of the 1990's, according to financial disclosure forms released by Sen. Clinton's office on Friday. Beyond showing that the former first couple now has a multimillion dollar annual income with up to $30 million in the bank, the disclosure forms reveal that the Clintons paid in excess of $1.3 million in legal bills from an account separate from their legal defense fund, with a portion of that money going to former staffers. Ostensibly, the staffer payments...

1980 Letter from Weakland to Marcoux The following is a transcription of a hand-written letter from Archbishop Rembert Weakland to Paul Marcoux, dated Aug. 25, 1980. A handwriting analyst who reviewed the letter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel concluded it is done in Weakland's handwriting. It was sent inside a card with the following quote: Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. - George Eliot August 25, 1980 Dear Paul, The epigram on the cover is more to stir me on than an expression of where - pro...