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Vernon Jordan, Civil Rights Activist and D.C. Power Broker, Dies at 85
nytimes ^ | March 2, 2021 | neil a lewis

Posted on 03/02/2021 7:01:05 AM PST by kiryandil

Vernon Jordan, the civil rights activist and Washington power broker whose private counsel was sought both by the powerful at the top levels of government and those in the corporate world, died on Monday at his home in Washington.

He was 85.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: anotherturdflushed; clintonscandals; cultureofcorruption; goodriddance; monicalewinsky; rip; vernonjordan; vernonjordanobit
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To: kiryandil

Didn’t he arrange for a job for Monica after that shtf?


21 posted on 03/02/2021 7:33:02 AM PST by ryderann
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To: kiryandil

He was Monica Lewinsky’s pimp.


22 posted on 03/02/2021 7:36:53 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: ryderann

see post #22


23 posted on 03/02/2021 7:41:25 AM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: kiryandil

The guy who bought silence from witnesses in cases against Bill Clinton.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/the-revlon-connection

After Hubbell was indicted by the Office of Independent Counsel for stealing nearly $ 500,000 from his law partners — including Hillary Rodham Clinton — presidential friend and adviser Vernon Jordan put in a call to Ron Perelman, the chairman of the Revlon Corporation. Jordan is a member of the company’s board of directors. Jordan also talked to Barry Schwartz, Revlon’s general counsel, about doing something to help Hubbell make money until his trial. Perelman agreed to a deal whereby Hubbell would be paid $ 25,000 per quarter for “public relations” work. (What better spokesman for a company than a man under indictment?)

After being paid $ 63,000 by Revlon, Hubbell pleaded guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion, in a plea bargain. He was sentenced to two years in a federal penitentiary. It was Starr’s impression that, as a result of the plea bargain, Hubbell would become a cooperating witness against the Clintons. After the sentencing, however, Hubbell turned turtle. He didn’t give Starr a thing. Once out of prison, he published his book, in which he offered little of interest.

For two years, Starr’s anger at Hubbell’s double cross has simmered. The frustration of being certain that Hubbell was given hush money — and of being unable to prove it — has gnawed at him.

Enter Linda Tripp and her story of Clinton’s relationship with the young intern, Monica Lewinsky. Just why would Starr rush to Attorney General Janet Reno to secure her cooperation and then go to the relevant three-judge panel to have the inquiry expanded? Sources inside the independent counsel’s office say that the normally placid Starr nearly hyperventilated on learning what, to him, was the most sensational detail of them all: that Jordan had called his old friend Perelman and asked him to get Monica Lewinsky a p.r. job at Revlon. Suddenly, things were starting to sound very, very familiar.

Suppose, Starr ruminated, Vernon Jordan was at the center of a conspiracy to keep Lewinsky silent? (This is, after all, what is implied on the Tripp tapes.) Jordan’s discussions with Perelman might well bring Revlon itself into the heart of the conspiracy. Starr probably can’t indict President Clinton, but how about naming Jordan and Revlon as defendants and sticking a few RICO statutes into the mix for good measure?


Fornigate was the case that showed the payoffs, coached testimony, and witness intimidation that went on in the Clintons’ other scandals.


24 posted on 03/02/2021 7:41:48 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: kiryandil

“Power Broker”

What a queer name for a Plumber who stopped the leaks.


25 posted on 03/02/2021 7:42:56 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: a fool in paradise

“suppurating pile of rotting dogsqueezins”


26 posted on 03/02/2021 7:46:02 AM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: kiryandil

Dems will lobby to have visitation at the Capital.


27 posted on 03/02/2021 7:49:30 AM PST by mund1011
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To: ryderann

yes and others


28 posted on 03/02/2021 7:58:37 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: kiryandil

Good damned RIDDANCE. Decades of living on Mahhhthah’s Vinyaaaahd next to all of the ultra-lib self correcting self immolating MIGHTY WHITIES of BAaaahhhston-— as a LABOR fixer— a criminal labor fixer apparatchik.

Approved skin color and all. And one of the main butt boys for obmauamao’s rise to useless nothingness as the go-between to TEDDY KENNEDY. Teddy Kennedy (the whale pervo drunken mick mobsters the worst of the true Nazi collaborators from Daddy on down to the Honey Fitz dem machine). Got’s to have black labor intermediaries and that was this clown’s manipulative specialty.

who to replace him with?— let’s target who that is beyond Trumpka.


29 posted on 03/02/2021 8:00:45 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: kiryandil

Prayers for his family and friends and pray he was saved.


30 posted on 03/02/2021 8:12:44 AM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: Texas Eagle

Thank heavens someone is!!!!


31 posted on 03/02/2021 8:13:07 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I Love BULL MARKETS!)
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To: kiryandil

Dem bag man.


32 posted on 03/02/2021 8:13:40 AM PST by DPMD
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To: kiryandil

Track, wall....see ya!


33 posted on 03/02/2021 8:14:46 AM PST by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: BunnySlippers

Thank you.


34 posted on 03/02/2021 8:19:02 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: kiryandil

That’s not what I’m saying. Involved only grown adults.


35 posted on 03/02/2021 8:32:27 AM PST by edwinland
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To: kiryandil

He’s in a warmer place.


36 posted on 03/02/2021 8:37:03 AM PST by Kazan
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To: kiryandil

One less Race Pimp polluting the earth. imho


37 posted on 03/02/2021 8:38:43 AM PST by 55Ford
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To: kiryandil

He’s now a feature on 2022 Black History month TV


38 posted on 03/02/2021 8:39:36 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: kiryandil

Wasn’t he the one who let Scooter Libby dangle in the wind? When Comey and the Gang went after the Bush administration, and Jordan knew Libby was innocent but said nothing?


39 posted on 03/02/2021 8:43:02 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Pathetic Pierre Delecto, the Pestiferous Potentate of Enchanted Chones.)
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To: Texas Eagle

Exactly. RIP. He’s accounting for his life before God.


40 posted on 03/02/2021 9:30:28 AM PST by newzjunkey (America First - bring on Giant Meteor in 2021)
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