This is a baseless accusation which was looked into over a decade ago in
an investigation that took $71.5 million and eight years to determine there
was no case.
Posted on 05/12/2008 2:50:32 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Clinton's records vanished after warning
May 12, 2008
By Jerry Seper - Hillary Rodham Clinton's Rose Law Firm billing records, found in the White House residence in January 1996 two years after they had been subpoenaed by government regulators, disappeared shortly after the first lady was warned that the firm's billing problems were "very serious" and the then-ongoing Whitewater investigation could result in criminal charges, newly obtained records show.
More than 1,100 pages of grand jury testimony, investigative reports, memos, charging documents, chronologies, narratives and draft indictments, previously undisclosed but now being "processed" at the Library of Congress, say Mrs. Clinton knew considerably more about the firm's billing problems and their potential ramifications than she publicly acknowledged at the time.
According to the documents, given to the Library of Congress by the estate of Sam Dash, former ethics adviser to Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr, Mrs. Clinton also knew that her former Rose partner Webster L. Hubbell was both the focus of the firm's billing concerns and a federal conflict-of-interest investigation, in which he was suspected of lying in a sworn statement to regulators about the firm's representation of a failed Arkansas savings and loan.
While Mrs. Clinton told the public at the time that Mr. Hubbell's March 14, 1994, resignation as associate attorney general involved an "internal billing dispute" with his Rose partners that "likely would be resolved," three months earlier she had been advised by another Rose partner, Allen Bird, that the "billing problems were very serious," according to the newly disclosed records.
The records also said Mrs. Clinton was aware that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) and the Resolution Trust Corp. (RTC) had begun an investigation in December 1993 into a suspected conflict of interest involving a $400,000 payment
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
From the article:
“The Rose firm’s original billings for Madison have never been found, but the new documents show the Whitewater investigators thought that White House Deputy Counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. had collected copies of them during the 1992 presidential campaign. Notes in red ink and in Mr. Foster’s handwriting are on the copies and appeared to be addressed to Mrs. Clinton.
Mr. Foster, whose July 1993 death at Fort Marcy Park in Virginia has been ruled a suicide, also served at the time as the Clintons’ personal attorney. He had expressed concern over the Clintons’ involvement in Whitewater Development Corp., an Arkansas real estate venture that also involved Madison’s owners, James and Susan McDougal, and he is thought to have been involved in removing records from the Rose firm in 1992 that later turned up at the Clinton campaign headquarters.”
We’ve got a murder suspect running for Pres.
Was Tom Cruise playing Vince Foster in the movie, “The Firm” ??
No. He lived. Gene Hackman's character, OTOH...
Things that make people say, “Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm “
Like the WaPo would write this story if the Hildebeast were the locked in nominee. Interesting that they would actually do their jobs as journalists at this point.
It’s from the Washington Times, not the Post.
They actually appeared two days later, but what's a day here or there, eh?
This is a baseless accusation which was looked into over a decade ago in
an investigation that took $71.5 million and eight years to determine there
was no case.
Yes we do.....
But who cares?
Obama had better care.
As I remember, the records were "found" only a day or so after the statute of limitations expired.
If I recall correctly, Susan McDougall chose prison time over giving testimony, right? What info was she keeping to herself that was so important that she would rather sit in jail than talk?????
Old news. Move on.(org)
More accurately, it constitutes Her Heinous saying, "<bleep> you! I had them all the time. You knew it and I knew it, but you couldn't do a thing about it. I could have made them disappear forever, but I wanted to really it stick it to you, so I brought them out just after the statute of limitations ran out because I want everyone to see you can't touch me and to pay you back for <bleeping> with me. By the way, did I mention <bleep> you? Well, just for good measure, <bleep> you. And your mother."
McDougal’s demise was another convenient death. I read at the time that while he was in prison he was denied his heart medication, which he needed to take on a continuous basis. Read on:
http://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/03/08/mcdougal.update/
McDougal died at 12:01 p.m. CT at John Petersmith Hospital, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons.
(snip)
After being convicted on 18 felony counts, McDougal began to cooperate with Starr’s investigation in August 1996 in exchange for a reduced prison sentence. Initially facing 84 years, he was sentenced to a three-year term and would have been released in September 1999.
His death means Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, no longer face the prospect of McDougal giving damaging testimony against them. McDougal had testified extensively to the Whitewater grand jury in Little Rock, Ark.
ping
Well, she got the pardon so we’ll never know.
I often wonder what it does to the fabric of our society when powerful people like the Clinton get away with what looks like serious crimes.
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