Posted on 03/04/2015 1:32:14 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The mystery man linked to Hillary Clinton’s personal e-mail account appears to be a Washington, D.C. stockbroker and former aide to the Clintons who played a walk-on role in controversies that dogged the former first family soon after it left the White House in 2001.
The initial Associated Press report Wednesday about Hillary Clinton’s use as secretary of state of a personal e-mail server installed in her home in Chappaqua, N.Y. traced the creation of the system to a man named “Eric Hoteham.” There’s virtually no trace of an individual by that name in public records or other online databases.
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However, a Clinton aide named Eric Hothem was linked to a flap in 2001 about the Clintons’ shipment of furniture and other items from the White House at the end of President Bill Clinton’s second term.
White House usher Gary Walters said Hothem told him that the furnishings “were the Clinton’s personal property,” the Washington Post reported at the time. The White House Counsel’s Office determined that some of the items were personal gifts to the first family, but the National Park Service said others belonged to the White House.
Walters said at the time he had not done enough to question the assurances offered by Hothem and others. The Clintons ultimately paid $86,000 for gifts they took with them and returned several items of furniture to the White House.
Hothem is also mentioned in a 2002 House Government Reform Committee report as having played a role in a $15,000 wire transfer from the Clintons to Roger Clinton, Bill Clinton’s brother. The panel was probing pardons and commutations President Clinton granted at the end of his presidency.
The House report identifies Hothem as “an aide to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton” and says the $15,000 was sent from a Citibank account in care of Hothem. Longtime Clinton lawyer David Kendall told the panel that the payment was directed to Roger Clinton and intended to help him pay for legal counsel to represent him in the investigation.
The committee report said Roger Clinton deposited $335,000 in travelers checks in a U.S. bank during a two year period. Clinton’s attorney said the checks were payments for musical performances overseas.
Hothem’s wife, Sue, is a fundraiser and consultant with long ties in Democratic politics. She served as development director for the Democratic Leadership Council and Progressive Policy Institute, centrist Democrat groups that helped bring Bill Clinton to national attention. She ;ater worked for fundraising firm Benchmark Strategies and was named last fall as membership director for the high-tech lobbying group, TechNet.
Industry records show Eric Hothem has been a licensed stockbroker in Washington, DC since 2003, first with Citigroup and more recently with JP Morgan. Hothem did not immediately return a message from POLITICO seeking comment.
As Hillary Clinton prepares to launch a bid for the White House, her use of the personal e-mail account as her sole account while secretary of state has prompted both criticism from open government advocates and attacks from Republicans. The State Department said this week that she forwarded 55,000 pages of e-mails from the account to the agency in December in response to a request for any work-related emails she or prior secretaries of state sent or received on personal accounts.
Josh Gerstein....original research, Josh?
No link or credit to Brent Scher and Free Beacon?
Nothing surprises me about the whole klintoon criminal family. They are corrupt to their rotten cores. May Justice find them.
I wonder why this scandal broke. Are the “Powers That Be” determined that Hillary Clinton has too much political baggage—let alone being too old (she’ll be 69 just one month before Election Day 2016!) to be really electable?
That photo of Hillary needs to be edited to put a shoe in her hand. Then it would remind us of Khrushchev.
The answer to your question is Trey Gowdy and his Benghazi committee. We owe him a big “thank you”. :)
Gowdy reports, since this story broke, that Shifty Clinton also has other private email accounts. He is ahead of the media on this story.
Gowdy wants solid evidence, in the form of any and all communications to and from the Secretary of State, regarding the Benghazi tragedy and the subsequent cover up.
If he has to pull teeth, so be it.
First thought that came to my mind was Vince Foster. Of course the Clinton’s would need a different place than Marcy Park(?). Two suspicious ‘suicides’ at the same park involving the Clintons, especially Hillary, might get people to wondering about characters involved. The Clintons are too astute to let any such wonderings go anywhere.
First thought that came to my mind was Vince Foster. Of course the Clinton’s would need a different place than Marcy Park(?). Two suspicious ‘suicides’ at the same park involving the Clintons, especially Hillary, might get people to wondering about characters involved. The Clintons are too astute to let any such wonderings go anywhere.
What SUCKS is that if Bush-43 had been a CONSERVATIVE, he would have already JAILED this bunch.
It is Kim Jong-un
We can hope.....
Since he invented the Internet, surely he knew how to hide email.
Will the GOP have the guts to pursue this or will the felonious Clintons skate yet again ?
The Ministry Of Propaganda has already declared this a non-issue.
Move on.org already
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