Posted on 02/28/2007 12:22:58 AM PST by BunnySlippers
WASHINGTON -- Six years ago, the launch of Hillary Clinton's career in the US Senate was marred by allegations that her brothers had received payments from people pardoned by President Bill Clinton in the waning months of his presidency.
Now, in the wake of the launch of her presidential campaign, the pardon controversy has reemerged in an obscure court case in which Senator Clinton's brother Tony is battling an order to repay more than $100,000 he received from a couple pardoned by President Clinton.
Tony Rodham, who acknowledged approaching the president about a pardon for the couple, is the second of Hillary Clinton's brothers to receive money from people who were eventually pardoned by President Clinton. Hugh Rodham received $400,000 from two people, one of whom was pardoned and one whose sentence was commuted.
But while Hillary Clinton immediately expressed chagrin over the news in 2001 that Hugh received the money -- and asked him to return it -- she said Tony was "not paid," according to a congressional report. The Clinton campaign yesterday declined to comment on the case involving Tony Rodham.
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Yesterday, US Bankruptcy Court Judge Marian Harrison of Nashville ordered Tony Rodham to respond by March 16 to the allegation that he failed to repay a loan of $107,000 from the couple pardoned by Clinton, according to attorneys involved in the case.
President Clinton's pardons have been a political issue for Hillary Clinton because of her ties to a number of the cases. In addition to the people who paid her brothers, those receiving pardons included commodities trader Marc Rich, a fugitive who was prosecuted for tax evasion by then-US Attorney Rudolph Giuliani and fled to Switzerland. Rich was pardoned after his former wife, Denise Rich, contributed heavily to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign.
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"Rich was pardoned after his former wife, Denise Rich, contributed heavily to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign."
Shows how far the Boston Globe has fallen in a few years. Has the NY Times managed to find a suitable home to adopt the Globe yet? The Globe has actually resorted to just citing history instead of trying to spin it as a greater good. Give them a couple more more years and the BG will be a weekly advert insert in the Lowell Sun. (But no one will rush to the mall when they acclaim the "biggest sale of the year".)
Shout it from the rooftops.
BTTT
This has to be a lie, a big one, that should come back to haunt Hillary. But no doubt her people have already compiled a dossier on her brother's detracters. They're toast. As for President Bush, in effect, protecting the Clintons on this pardon, shame on him. If he thinks President Hillary (or any demo president) will reciprocate, he's way wrong.
Just wait for the bodies to start...er...I mean the suicides to start showing up...
It's like a Java Monkey Trap. Tony Rodham just can't let go of the money, so now the Clintons are trapped. I can't believe he didn't just pay back this money quietly, in order to avoid the embarrassment. The damage this story will do to the Clintons is far in excess of $100,000.
"I can't believe he didn't just pay back the money"
He probably had spent the money. He has to wait until he can sell some president Hillary pardons to reestablish his cash flow.
I wish more attention were focused on the FALN pardons which were clearly intended to enhance Hillary's campaign for the senate and which were and are more far reaching in the war on terror.
How about those Jews from New Palz (sp) NY that got pardoned for votes?
Another sign that the Leftist media-political complex is throwing in with Obama, and throwing Hillary under the bus.
Clever. Could you do one using an old "Laugh-In" clip, putting Hillary in the raincoat on the tricycle?
haha!! Good idea! I'm not that skilled yet tho!!
:o)
OMG!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
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