Posted on 10/15/2017 1:01:30 PM PDT by tje
NEWS LINE October 15, 2017 They’re All In It Together – Weinstein Paid for Bill Clinton’s Legal Fees During His Sex Abuse Scandal
by USJ Staff 0 comments 22 When Bill Clinton was at the height of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, Hollywood was by his side, offering donations for his legal fees, and one significant donor was a man who is now going through his own sex scandal—Harvey Weinstein.
More than 20 women have publicly accused Weinstein of sexual harassment, sexual assault or rape. After the New York Times and the New Yorker published in-depth stories detailing the testimonies of women who have been abused by Weinstein—and in many cases, paid off with airtight non-disclosure agreements—the stories have continued to come to light.
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Yikes!
Totally misleading. WhineStain was one of a group who donated $10k each. Article makes it sound like he paid it all.
This kind of clickbait sloppy reporting is little better than fake news.
Ole’ Ben had a way with words. . . .
And women, but they didn’t complain.
Pizza and a movie and a cigar.
Where in Alinsky’s rules does utter abject hypocrisy appear?
Is this serious? Male male threesomes with Bill and Harv??
If so, who knows which one wanted that leverage... I guess more useful for Harvey, since more is mistakenly expected of pols...
I don’t think Harvey had room for STRONGER TOGETHER on his peen. Maybe he just had the hospital sign, which makes a great medical threat to the young starlets if they don’t “bow.”
“Weinstein should call Bill Clinton as a character witness as repayment of the debt.”
It’s hard to know how somebody like Weinstein might react to having his close associates burn him. Perhaps at some level he realizes he should just keep his mouth shut. But at another level he is probably angry and wants revenge. If he fires back at HRC and Bill for their betrayal with information perhaps only he has, it would make an epic splash.
surrey wrote:
“I still would like to know if Harvey and Bubba flew to Pedo Island together on the Lolita Express.”
That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline...
Who all went & who bankrolled em?
Gives laying on of hands a new meaning.
Laura Loomer would do it.
Gotta luv all the fake "outrage" over this guy. Especially since these Hollyweirdos fell all over themselves making excuses for Bill Clinton's same behavior.
Hypocrisy on parade.
you mean Time magazine.
The financial casualties of the Whitewater and subsequent Lewinsky investigations were extensive, and made more painful because Bill said on numerous occasions that he would seek to help his staffers pay their legal bills, though he was later talked out of doing so by his lawyer. Margaret Williams, who was questioned about Vincent Foster’s death in the Whitewater probes, accumulated $350,000 in fees, almost three times her salary as Hillary’s chief of staff. Roger Altman, who was making $133,600 as deputy treasury secretary during the Clinton administration, faced at least $500,000 in legal fees throughout the proceedings. Lisa Caputo’s $75,000 press secretary salary was quickly eclipsed by legal bills of at least $100,000. Bruce Lindsey, a senior adviser to Clinton, faced between $250,000 and $500,000 in legal bills—a hefty sum when you are making $125,000.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/why-everyone-in-the-west-wing-will-need-to-lawyer-up
According to FEC Info, an Internet Web site (www.tray.com) that tracks federal political contributions, 176 individual donors actually contributed $10,000 or more to the Clinton defense fund through December 1999. Another 21 donors gave $10,000 in the first six months of this year, according to data released yesterday.
They included Yuen-Fung Chu and Chiao Jen Wang of Arlington, Va., owners of International Corp. of America, who have given a total of $60,000; socialite Smith Bagley of Washington, who has donated $30,000; and Baltimore Orioles owner Peter G. Angelos, who has donated $20,000.
Hollywood producers and stars made up the bulk of the most generous givers. They include Universal Studios tycoon Lew Wasserman and his wife, Edith, who have given $60,000; DreamWorks trio Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, $20,000 each; producer Ron Burkle and his wife, Janet, $40,000; producers Peg and Bud Yorkin, $30,000; and TV producer Norman Lear, $20,000.
Entertainment celebrities and executives giving $10,000 include singers Tony Bennett and Barbra Streisand; actors Michael Douglas and Tom Hanks; director Ron Howard; producer Gail Zappa; and Black Entertainment Television founder Robert L. Johnson.
Mr. Essaye said two Washington law firms got the bulk of trust funds for Mr. Clinton’s legal representation.
Williams & Connolly has billed $8 million for work associated with independent counsel investigations, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has billed $3 million for the president’s defense in the sexual harassment lawsuit of former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones.
Mr. Essaye said the fund, formally called the Clinton Legal Expense Trust, also is paying the president’s legal costs for disbarment proceedings in Arkansas over Mr. Clinton’s false testimony in the Jones case regarding his sexual liaison with Miss Lewinsky.
U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found the president in contempt of court and assessed him $90,000 for falsely stating that he “did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
Asked whether the legal-defense fund would pay for Mr. Clinton’s contempt-of-court fine or the $850,000 settlement awarded to Mrs. Jones, Mr. Essaye said “neither has been certified… . Theoretically, [fund trustees] could still do it, but I have no reason to believe they would.”
When pressed further, he said neither expense conformed “to the precise words” of the trust’s charter and, if requested to pay for Mr. Clinton’s contempt fine and settlement with Mrs. Jones, “We would have to cross that bridge when we come to it.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2000/aug/24/20000824-011846-9466r/
rapists helping rapists
Why is it that the Clintons always have someone else pay their way? They always have a scam going that rakes in money hand over fist. Why can’t they spend any of that? And another burning, absurd question: If the state of Florida were carpeted, how many square yards would it take? (Hat tip to Carlton Blanchard, “Wings” tv show character)
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