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.
All around them fall: WHEN-OH-WHEN WILL THE clintons GET THEIR DUE???
>:-<
Gosh, I wonder if this Levin character knows the guys that supposedly were doing some shady dealings and donating to Rahm Emmanuels campaign---
Rahm and the Clintons were very close and now another Chicago fraud---hmmmmmmmmmmmm....
All it takes is one to roll over, the Clinton
house of cards is starting to unravel.
Why is it that just about anybody that EVER has had anything to do with the Clintons are "dirty", but they just walk around like they are "clorox clean"?
Bubba:"Man..I hate it for you all that legal trouble and such..(long pause)...You do remember Jim McDoogal, don't you?"
Joins the league of the Indicted and Interred
Once again, I'm reminded of the unmitigated sleaze in the White House...and shaking my head: how can this happen?
Not to mention, those blue bloods in D.C. cover for each other as they mutually stroke their egos.
Another one for the files
Aw, shucks. Hillary will just have to get elected so she can pardon the poor feller.......
I'm not shocked one bit.
On small vacation (hey, I'll take the 3 days off if I can get it) I was in Hot Springs.
Where slick Willy spent much of his school day youth.
Talked to some old locals who owned a company that had some spa and hotel interests. they had been there for years.
Learned some things about the Clintons. FIRST...CLINTON NEVER LIVED THE LIFE OF A POOR BOY....as the media tried to claim...and as many of us figured different.
The house that we lived in first ...in Hope...well...yeah...now it looks old...BACK THEN...it was a very nice home. His family owned a store.
Then is mom married a very smooth car dealer. Who did real well.
He had some auto interests...then they moved to Hot Springs starting in Willy's formative years
(THIS IS WHERE THE WAY BILL ACTS STARTS TO MAKE SENSE>>>>)
They moved into a home that his sfather's uncle owned. Pretty nice. Nice yard. On the edge of a scenic area.
There is now a liquor store across the street. And a sign in the yard that mentions that some different folks live there now...so please don't walk beyond a little barrier line.
His uncle owned, what was then, one of the more lucrative car lots in that part of the state.
It was also an old hang out for the old fat cats. They would play poker...shoot the squat..etc.
(Remember this....it comes into play)
Well, in high school.....Willy drove around in nice cars. Some rag top slide downs..etc. Hanging out at a local country club.
AND HE HUNG OUT A LOT AT THE CAR DEALERSHIP.
Where he would chat with the fat cats.
OK...Clinton was in Hot Springs at the tail end of some interesting years for that area.
For years...folks like Capone would go there and used the springs/spas.
There was still a contingent of shady types that would frequent Hot Springs when he was in high school.
According to the locals.......some of them hung out at the car dealership.
I went up in that tower they have there. And there is a film they run about Clinton. Talks about his homes, family, the car dealership...etc.
So the locals sound legit.
And if some shady folks were hanging out there.....and Willy was in awe of it all....
Well......the rest, as they say, is interns and investigations.
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Welcome.
yeah...I thought the same thing....how his friend is owned a strip joint.
And...there is the issue of the 'snow plow' business that got busted for overcharging schools.
I think, back in the day, gangsters used delivery trucks for fronts.........
guess they moved on to snow plows.
Wonder if the guy is related to that famous chicago crime family...
Ya know...the one that had two mayors.
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Thanks again for the welcome.
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