I accidentally posted the link to the image of Palladino from the WND story.
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“He ended the conversation abruptly,” to go check the locks on the front door and get another handgun as a backup. Meanwhile his wife began to search for his life insurance policy’s.
There now that’s closer to the truth.
President Bill Clinton’s use of private investigators—including San Francisco’s Palladino & Sutherland, who investigated the 1992 Clinton campaign’s “bimbo eruptions,” and Washington’s IGI, which is accused of digging dirt on Kenneth Starr’s lieutenants—has reopened the issue of PIs in politics.
Now we’re treated to the public spectacle of gumshoe Jack Palladino hiding out from Paula Jones’ legal team (and their PIs) while IGI’s chief Terry Lenzner is dragged in front of Ken Starr’s star chamber.
Investigative Group International (IGI) - Founded by former Senate Watergate committee investigator Terry Lenzner, IGI maintains elegantly low-key offices just four blocks from the White House—and critics say the detective agency has become Bill Clinton’s private CIA. IGI does auditing, intelligence, and security work for major clients including 3M, Lockheed, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), and the Democratic National Committee and President Bill Clinton’s legal defense fund—which got Lenzner called before Sen. Fred Thompson’s (R-Tenn.) televised hearings on campaign finances last year. Lenzner explained that with donations flowing in so rapidly, the Democrats had asked him to check some of their contributors for shady connections—though for some reason they asked him not to interview chief bagman Yah Lin “Charlie” Trie. Lenzner was also made to explain why he had proposed to investigate Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.) and his wife on behalf of an Indian tribe (Nickles opposed the return of tribal lands in Oklahoma).
More recently, IGI has been accused of investigating Ken Starr’s lieutenants for Clinton’s lawyers, and Lenzner again has been called to explain his snooping—this time before Starr’s grand jury. Whether or not the allegation is true, IGI has long been a friend of Bill; Newsday recently uncovered that Lenzner began working for the Clinton campaign as early as 1991. Several ex-IGI agents work in the Clinton administration, and in 1994 the State Department awarded IGI’s then-president Raymond Kelly a lucrative no-bid contract to train Haiti’s new police force. Kelly now heads U.S. Customs.
A San Francisco based private eye, Jack Palladino, was on the Clinton payroll during the Arkansas years. His job was to intimidate the governor’s “bimbos” into silence. Rooting about, he somehow found an allegation that Flowers was tied to a right-wing conspiracy. That was a dog that wouldn’t hunt.
Palladino was paid $100,000 in 1992 to pile up dossiers on the Clinton women. (New York Daily News reporters Thomas DeFrank and Thomas Galvin in the August 4, 1997, Weekly Standard.)
Women were not the only targets of Clinton’s expensive secret police. Thomas DeFrank and Thomas Galvin report that when Republican congressman Jim Leach of Iowa began investigating Whitewater, he found a stranger— Jack Palladino— skulking about his home.
But Clinton’s discarded women were the main objects of the Clinton team both in Arkansas and later in Washington. Next week, we shall follow the White House directed detectives stalking Dolly Kyle Browning, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Kathleen Willey, and the woman who may yet cause the president to resign— Juanita Broaddrick.
But what do the obstructions of justice of Clinton-the-night-crawler in Arkansas have to do with his attempts to suppress evidence in his august role as president of the United States? It’s all an addictive whole— pattern and practice, as lawyers say. That’s why Monica Lewinsky was subpoenaed to tell her story during the preliminaries to the Paula Jones trial. She wasn’t in Arkansas, but he committed perjury about his actions in both Arkansas and Washington.
White House lied about using private detectives against Starr
Human Events, Mar 6, 1998 by Chapman, Michael
They hired private detectives to dig up dirt on federal prosecutors and critics of the President-in this case Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and his staff. Former federal prosecutor Joe diGenova and his law-partner wife, Victoria Toensing, also claim that private investigators have been hounding them.
The White House lied about its use of private investigators, got caught, and then claimed it never lied in the first place.
“It’s very chilling,” Toensing told HUMAN EVENTS. “It sounds like the Nixon situation again.” referring to Nixon’s “enemies list” of liberal journalists.
On February 22, diGenova said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he and his wife had learned from respected journalists that they were being investigated by private detectives “with links to the White House and the attorneys representing the President.” DiGenova said that these detectives were Jack Palladino and/or Terry Lenzner.
Palladino runs the investigative agency Palladino & Sutherland in San Francisco and has close ties to President Clinton. In 1992, Palladino was paid by the Clinton campaign to squelch “bimbo eruptions,” i.e., stories from Gennifer Flowers and other women linked to Clinton.
Before he became White House counsel, Charles Ruff, working for the Teamsters, hired Palladino to put a lid on negative stories about then-Teamsters President Ron Carey. (DiGenova and Toensing are the lead counsels in an ongoing House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee probe of the Teamsters.)
Terry Lenzner, who operates Investigative Group, Inc., in Washington, D.C., also has long-standing ties to Clinton, and has investigated Starr and Paula Jones. In the 1970s Lenzner was an investigator for the Senate Watergate Committee, which Hillary Clinton also worked for.
Following diGenova’s statements on “Meet the Press,” White House press secretary Mike McCurry denounced diGenova’s allegations as “blatant lies,” adding the blanket, unambiguous denial that Clinton’s lawyers had not hired anyone to examine the background of diGenova or federal prosecutors. (See box.)
The next day, however, Lenzner told the Washington Post that, for him, “there was nothing inappropriate about” investigating Star’s staff.
Finally. late in the afternoon of February 24. Clinton lawyers David Kendall and Robert Bennett released a statement confirming that they had hired Lenzner “to perform legal and appropriate tasks” to defend Clinton. They said they had not investigated “the private lives of Ms. Toensing. Mr. diGenova, prosecutors. investigators, or members of the press:’ but that “[t]here is public information available, which, of course, it is our duty as counsel to research and gather”
That statement “confirms that they were investigating us. but not our personal lives-whatever that means,” diGenova told HUMAN EVENTS. “They didn’t have to issue this statement. Why did they do it? They did it because the White House lied on Sunday and Monday.”
from the TIME article by Ed Barnes:
...........As part of their case, Hoffa's lawyers plan to detail the "work product" of CHARLES RUFF, now White House counsel, who briefly worked for the Teamsters under Carey. In 1993 Ruff allegedly paid Jack Palladino, a San Francisco private detective, more than $150,000 out of Teamsters funds for unspecified services. A House subcommittee that had tried to investigate the payment was stymied by legal objections from Ruff and Carey. There have been allegations that the money was for work Palladino did for Clinton in his 1992 campaign to keep stories of sexual misconduct from becoming public, or that the money was used to suppress Teamster dissidents. Ruff has denied the allegations as "false and nonsensical." (Calls to McAuliffe's attorney were not returned.) The proposed lawsuit will contend that government monitors failed to do their job overseeing the Carey administration and, "as a result," says a source close to the suit, "more than $20 million of taxpayer money was wasted on one election and the union went bankrupt." If Hoffa is successful, the Teamsters may be in for a windfall. Under racketeering statutes, successful plaintiffs can recover as much as triple the damages...
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