Posted on 07/10/2002 2:07:30 PM PDT by MamaLucci
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:34:07 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.
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What, no cat in need of an operation or a family farm about to be forclosed upon?
He should reimburse the taxpayers for court costs and his prison room and board.
Good!Another Leftist Manipulator (you can't be a friend of the Clintonoids w/out being a Professional Manipulator/Liar) goes to Jail.I wonder how Rockland County voted for the Hildebeast. I'll have to find that.
Could also be one of the gaggle that spit on the flag. LET'S GO TO THE TAPE!
Leni
NEW YORK -- Federal prosecutors are investigating whether former President Bill Clinton commuted the fraud sentences of four Hasidic Jewish leaders from New York as payback for their community's support for his wife's Senate campaign, a law enforcement source said yesterday.
The four leaders of the tight-knit New Square community in suburban Rockland County were convicted in 1999 of stealing more than $30 million in government funds, and received prison sentences ranging from 2½ to 6½ years. During his last-minute pardons and commutations before leaving office, Clinton reduced their sentences to 24 to 30 months.
New Square residents voted almost unanimously for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., last November, while nearby Hasidic communities voted just as overwhelmingly for her opponent, former Rep. Rick Lazio, R-N.Y. Six weeks after the election, the Clintons held a 45-minute meeting at the White House with the leader of the ultra-orthodox New Square community, Grand Rabbi David Twersky, who lobbied for clemency for the four men.
The Clintons have spent the last month dealing with pardon-related headaches, and the new senator held a news conference Thursday to denounce her brother, Hugh Rodham, for accepting $400,000 in payments from two pardoned felons. The decision of U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White to expand her newly opened probe of the Marc Rich pardon to include the New Square case is more bad news for the newly minted senator, whose campaign also benefited from the largess of Rich's ex-wife, Denise Rich. Still, legal experts say, it would be difficult for prosecutors to bring a bribery case, especially given the president's broad constitutional power to pardon.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton's campaign treasurer held a news conference yesterday morning in Manhattan to defend his role in helping two Arkansas businessmen secure pardons for 18-year-old tax convictions. Earlier this week, White's office secured a guilty plea on unrelated corruption and tax-fraud charges from former Rockland County Democratic leader Paul Adler, a former fund-raiser for Clinton who occasionally advised her on Jewish issues and accompanied her on a campaign trip to New Square last August.
Adler's lawyer said his client is not cooperating with the government on the New Square matter.
Congressional investigations of the pardons also widened yesterday. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.., expanded his Senate Judiciary Committee probe to include the commutation of the sentence of cocaine dealer Carlos Vignali and the pardon of convicted swindler Glenn Braswell. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Too bad he didn't rat, he may have avoided jail time. Of course, on the other hand, at least he's not taking a dirt nap.... like a lot of others we know... perhaps he's avoided an Arkancide.
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