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Pardon Me Hillary
CaliforniaRepublic.org ^ | 8/17/06 | Roger Aronoff

Posted on 08/17/2006 8:52:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Remember Jimmy Carter's buffoonish brother Billy, known for "Billy Beer" and dealing with Libyan dictator Gadhafi? Well, Hillary Clinton has a brother, too, and, as reported in the Washington Times, Anthony D. "Tony" Rodham was named recently in an Alexandria, Virginia bankruptcy court filing that could boomerang on Hillary herself as she prepares her presidential run. The Tony Rodham story, in which he is accused of being paid and loaned hundreds of thousand of dollars to lobby for presidential pardons, could resurrect numerous Clinton scandals.

The media's blackout of this story demonstrates how Senator Clinton is once again benefiting from the protection provided by the mainstream media. At the very least, she ought to be asked what she thinks of her brother's legal predicament. And if she won't answer, they should ask Bill Clinton about it.

The story takes us back to the end of husband Clinton's second term in office, when he made a number of very dubious pardons, some for significant amounts of cash. Hillary's brother Tony had received $244,769 in salary, and loans totaling over $100,000 from people who were granted presidential pardons. According to the suit, he didn't pay them back.

The bankruptcy filings are for a carnival company based in Tennessee, United Shows, which originally filed for bankruptcy protection in 2002. In a related document filed last year, Rodham was said to have "received the benefit of the loans without making any repayment." According to the Times, he claimed to work for the company as a consultant. He denied that any money he took was to lobby the White House, or seek pardons. The owners of the company were Edgar Gregory, Jr. and his wife Vonna Jo Gregory, who were both "convicted of bank fraud in 1982 on charges of illegally giving loans to friends." Mr. Gregory died in 2004.

In 2002, The House Government Reform Committee issued a report titled "Justice Undone: Clemency Decisions in the Clinton White House." The report said that Tony Rodham used his influence to seek pardons for the Gregorys, and received nearly $250,000 in salary and $79,000 in loans from them. It said that the loans were consolidated into a single note, due in December 2001. The committee said that Mr. Gregory had no documentation detailing the work that Rodham supposedly had performed.

Hillary's other brother, Hugh Rodham, an attorney, ended up returning about $400,000 that he had received "for lobbying for a presidential pardon and prison commutation for two clients," the Times said.

Clinton's most famous pardon was given to fugitive financier Marc Rich. That was apparently the first time that someone who had fled the country and remained a fugitive, rather than face justice, had received a presidential pardon. A 2005 article from Business Week provided a detailed account of what Rich had done, and how he has schemed and manipulated his way to an estimated net worth of $8 billion, by skillfully trading with every outlaw regime, including Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

Before he was pardoned, his companies pled guilty to 78 counts of fraud and corruption and paid more than $150 million in fines. But when he couldn't negotiate a deal to pay up to another $100 million in fines for tax evasion and other white collar crimes, in order to stay out of jail, he refused to come back to the U.S. In the meantime, his ex-wife Denise Rich raised over $1 million and gave it to the Democratic National Committee, plus tens of thousands more to the Clinton legal defense fund, the Clinton Library, and other such causes.

These are some of the issues that could hang over Mrs. Clinton's presidential ambitions, if the media should choose to examine them. But that's a big "if."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: hillary; hillaryscandals; marcrich; pardon; pardonme; rodham; tonyrodham
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Roger Aronoff directed and co-wrote the documentary, “Confronting Iraq: Conflict and Hope.” He is a media analyst with Accuracy in Media.
1 posted on 08/17/2006 8:52:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

If, and I say if, this has legs ( is that the right expression) the DBM will shortly bring out something from the Bush past or closet. And that will become THE story!!!

Just you wait and watch!!!


2 posted on 08/17/2006 8:57:47 PM PDT by malia ("How do you get a ceasefire with terrorists"? John Bolton)
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To: NormsRevenge


Hmmmmmmmmm


3 posted on 08/17/2006 9:03:31 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" only 10% are radical, that's 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: NormsRevenge

And that's why right win blogs, talk shows, and forums such as this need to hammer the point home. Because I can guarantee you that there are many moderate democrats and Independants that either are members of these forums or read them regularly.


4 posted on 08/17/2006 9:07:13 PM PDT by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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To: NormsRevenge; onyx
The bankruptcy filings are for a carnival company based in Tennessee

This'd be funny if the Lenos and Lettermans of the world would pick up on it...................sound of crickets.

5 posted on 08/17/2006 9:08:20 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (Meep Meep)
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To: NormsRevenge

Previous threads:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=tonyrodham


6 posted on 08/17/2006 9:09:36 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: ErnBatavia; NormsRevenge


Oh, that would be delicious!


7 posted on 08/17/2006 9:10:31 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" only 10% are radical, that's 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: onyx

Here`s one for all our little rat buddies that are worried about coruption in Washington. For two kizillion $$,name George W. and the First Lady`s personal attorneys ?

Times do change


8 posted on 08/17/2006 9:13:34 PM PDT by bybybill (`IF TH E RATS WIN, WE LOSE)
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To: bybybill

Tell me?
Nor Alberto Gonzales because toy said their 'personal' attorneys.


9 posted on 08/17/2006 9:20:32 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" only 10% are radical, that's 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: doug from upland

fyi


10 posted on 08/17/2006 9:24:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
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To: onyx

Thats the point, we don`t know cause the President and Laura aren`t crooks.


11 posted on 08/17/2006 9:25:12 PM PDT by bybybill (`IF TH E RATS WIN, WE LOSE)
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LOL -- it's late and I am tired. Thanks! L)


12 posted on 08/17/2006 9:30:20 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" only 10% are radical, that's 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: ErnBatavia

They'll pick up on it only after they know she is politically dead. One thing the media knows for sure, after 20 years of covering the Clintons, is that they launch effective political vendettas whenever they have the power to do it.


13 posted on 08/17/2006 9:51:11 PM PDT by kylaka
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To: NormsRevenge

Hopefully, we'll have a short version before November --- INDICTING HILLARY.


14 posted on 08/17/2006 10:07:57 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: NormsRevenge

ping


15 posted on 08/17/2006 11:29:00 PM PDT by SR 50 (Larry)
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To: NormsRevenge
Lest we not forget his older brother, Hugh Rodham was caught in a money for pardons deal. I don't think he was made to pay for it but he did give hill a major pain. It was at the time she was running for Senate and using the name Hillary Rodham. She had to revert back to Clinton when that hit the press.
16 posted on 08/17/2006 11:37:04 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Of course the "media" won't choose to expose it .. it will be left to FR, talk radio, and sensible people all over America.

We must remember .. the drive-by does not have a monopoly anymore.


17 posted on 08/18/2006 7:05:48 AM PDT by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: NormsRevenge
It's true the major media will support Hillary Clinton if she runs for president in 2008. But the Dinosaur Media might not have it all alone as it has in the past.

The truth is that prior to about the middle 80s the mass media brainwashed the public and had a massive affect on elections. The Democrat/Socialist Party would have died decades ago had it not been for the alphabet networks, and the mass circulation dailies.

In a relatively short time the alternative media has grown and has captured a significant percentage of voters away from the leftist media's influence. All of Hillary's past scandals and criminal activities will come out for full review.
18 posted on 08/18/2006 7:33:15 AM PDT by R.W.Ratikal
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To: NormsRevenge; Liz; Howlin

What - me worry?

19 posted on 08/18/2006 4:07:16 PM PDT by Libloather (I would give my left arm to be ambidextrous...)
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To: onyx
Nor Alberto Gonzales because toy said their 'personal' attorneys.

Translation?

20 posted on 08/18/2006 4:13:43 PM PDT by Osage Orange (The old/liberal/socialist media is the most ruthless and destructive enemy of this country.)
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