Posted on 05/13/2005 5:33:58 PM PDT by ArmyBratproud
A close personal friend of Bill Clinton is expected to plead guilty to charges that he defrauded the Chicago public school system, according to Crain's Chicago Business, which reported the development on its Web site Friday.
Jim Levin, who once owned the Chicago strip club Thee Dollhouse, acknowledged Thursday during testimony delivered at the trial of Hillary Clinton's finance director David Rosen that he had struck a deal with prosecutors within the last two weeks.
Levin, however, did not offer details. But according to Crain's, Chicago school officials have alleged that companies controlled by Levin over-billed schools for snow plowing services.
The allegations include charges that the Clinton friend, along with four minority subcontractors, accepted money for work they did not perform.
In 2000, then-President Clinton identified Mr. Levin as his personal friend, explaining at a New Jersey fund-raiser: "He wasn't particularly political before I became president [but] we got to be very close."
After running a Chicago strip club in the 1990s, Levin became an executive for Tru-Link Fence Company. Like Rosen, he helped raise funds for Mrs. Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign.
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald declined to confirm the Clinton crony's plea, with a spokesman saying only, "There’s nothing that’s a matter of public record.”
But Levin himself confirmed that he had some sort of agreement with the feds, telling a lawyer for Rosen who questioned his veracity on Thursday, "If I do not tell the truth, there is no deal. I'm here to tell the truth."
The Chicago businessman spent at least two nights at the White House during the Clintons' last year in office, after pledging to donate $1 million to Clinton's presidential library.
As part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors, Levin has turned state's evidence against Rosen. The one-time strip bar proprietor testified Thursday that Rosen had confided to him that he intended to cover up the costs of an August 2000 gala fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton.
Personally, I'd love to see the full list - accurate, not exaggerated or anything and NOT counting people who were not legitimately CLOSE Clinton associates - with exact relationship, crime or shady dealing accused of, things admitted to, time served, and so forth.
NEVER, since the Clintons are the spiders that built the web that keeps their "friends" from turning on them. In other words, the Clintons have corrupted everyone ever involved with them. Once corrupted they know too much on their "friends" and they will never turn on the Clintons. Ask Web Hubbell and Susan McDougal. Web was one of the Clintons closest "friends" and business partners. He didn't even get a pardon and he spend time in PRISON because of them. All he had to do was spill his guts and he could have walked away. Web Hubbell and his family are ruined, disgraced and hate the Clintons with a passion (a little late). They knew how corrupt the Clintons were and are and still took the fall for them. Look who got punished and look who walked away with millions in book deals and one in a higher elected office.
I do remember the phone call of hubble to his wife...telling her that he guessed that he'd "have to roll over again" for the clintons.
We all have access to KNOW that--we have HEARD the actual conversation--yet the liberals still follow the clintons into the depths of the sewer.
:-(
The alive ones or the dead ones?
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/conv.html
TOO LONG FOR A POST
Clinton's "life story" is as fictitious as he his today.
Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia Cassidy Blythe, moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, to study nursing. Bill Clinton stayed with his mother's parents in Hope.
Eldridge and Edith Cassidy owned a small grocery store just outside of Hope.
His mother returned from New Orleans with her nursing degree in 1950, when her son was four years old. Later that same year, she married an automobile salesman named Roger Clinton. When Bill Clinton was seven years old, the family moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas.
I don't know right off, Luke, but maybe Alamo Girl would know. She compiled vast amounts of information on the Clintons - back in the "olden days."
Alamo Girl, can you help here with a link? THANKS!!
Never mind..... Ramonan has it!
seems like she has time on her hands.
When pigs fly over the rainbow.
Very interesting link covering Peter Paul letter to Hitlary in 2001...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/724225/posts
Rosen assoc. rolls ping
She and Rita Cosby can get together with their "sources" and figure it out, since Rita also seems to have time on her hands now!!!
Ask around about this guy and his connections, will ya?
Oops. Sorrrry! ;-)
Nothing to be sorry for. I just hope you'll read the series. Hillary doesn't want you to do that. :)
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