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As always with this gang - ask "Why this, why now?"

Maybe this has Enron ties.

From WorldNetDaily in February 2002: Senate probes Clinton loans for Enron deals: Finance committee finds 3 federal agencies gave 'hundreds of millions' to risky projects

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Ex-Im [Export-Import] Bank board members during the Clinton years include Jackie Clegg, wife of Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Maria Haley, a former aide to Clinton in Little Rock and ex-wife of John Haley, who was convicted in the Whitewater investigation.
Dodd served as co-chairman of the Democratic National Committee during the '96 Clinton-Gore campaign. Clinton appointed Clegg vice chair of the Ex-Im Bank board in June 1997.
Haley has ties to the crooked Riady family who operate the Lippo Group out of Jakarta, Indonesia. The Riadys ran afoul of federal bank regulators after they took control of the Worthen Bank in Little Rock in the 1980s. Haley's long-time law partner, Mark Grobmyer, a Clinton golfing buddy, is a Lippo lobbyist.
While at Ex-Im Bank, documents show Haley OK'd federal loans for Indonesian projects worth more than $40 billion, including many involving Lippo and its subsidiaries.
Clinton replaced her on the board with Vanessa Weaver, who was forced by the Senate Banking Committee to recuse herself from Lippo transactions after a 1999 Investor's Business Daily story exposed her close ties to Lippo executive John Huang.
Both Huang and James Riady have since been convicted of fraud relating to Clinton-Gore fund-raising.
Two Enron executives -- Joseph Sutton and Rebecca McDonald -- have served on the Ex-Im Bank's advisory committee.

-PJ

The plane, a two-seater, ended up in a ravine about 300 yards south of the airport after it attempted to land about 10 a.m.

The sheriff said the plane was destroyed and federal investigators would be on the scene tomorrow to try to determine the cause of the accident. Authorities believe the two men were on a business trip to Harrison.

City parks employees, working on a softball complex about a quarter-mile from the airport on the city's north side, said the airplane was dumping fuel before it made an attempt to land.

The parks workers said they could smell the fuel as it dropped around them.

Because of the crash, a plane bringing Lieutenant Governor Win Rockefeller to Harrison for a dedication ceremony at a post office and VFW park in Holiday Island didn't land. Rockefeller spokesman Steve Brawner says the plane turned around and Rockefeller returned to Little Rock.

One eyewitness told KOLR10 it looks as though the plane tried to make a hard left and then just nose dived into the ground.

Vincent Edgmon talked to the pilot on the radio just moments before the crash. He said nothing seemed wrong at the time. "There was no worry in his voice? No. I didn't get the impression that there was any concern with the pilot whatsoeve with his call. He just wanted info on landing which is normal for someone on approach," said Edgmon.

Pam Groen saw the crash. "When I was watching it came right over the rooftop, I mean it just cleared our building and it went to that tree right there, then almost touched that tall tree. That's how low it was."

Federal Aviation Administration officials were on the scene of the crash Thursday afternoon, but it would likely be Friday before investigators from the National Transportation Safety Administration arrived at the site. Authorities believe the two men were on a business trip to Harrison.