Roger Clinton Said to Be Deeply Tied to Pardons

Latimes ^ | 3/12/2002

[KQQL]

With President Clinton's encouragement, his half-brother, Roger, collected hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby on behalf of as many as 13 people seeking presidential pardons and other favors, a key congressional panel has found.

This characterization goes far beyond what Roger Clinton has acknowledged about his activities in seeking presidential pardons and suggests that he was much more deeply involved than previously known.

[coloradan]

There has got to be a bump list for "stench" or "putrefaction" that indexes all the filth of this corrupt, disgusting family. But, I don't know what it is. "Legacy?"

[Free the USA]

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[Free the USA]

reply #3

[StarFan]

While strongly suggesting that laws were broken and that more FBI and Justice Department investigation is needed, the committee stopped short of alleging criminal wrongdoing. However, the panel did note that a federal grand jury in New York has been investigating the scandal for a year, implying that criminal charges could eventually result.

Do we dare dream?

snip The panel's report also provides new details about the prison commutation granted to convicted cocaine dealer Carlos Vignali of Los Angeles. Congressional investigators found that the president's brother-in-law Hugh Rodham repeatedly misled the White House in seeking a commutation for Vignali and suggested that former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was also behind the commutation.

Mia - are we surprised?

[EmmaPeel]

Repulsive.

[StarFan]

Ping! More fodder for you.

[Callahan]

Can't wait till Hillary goes on the Today Show and gets grilled by Katie Couric about why her fat brother never returned the bulk of his pardon cash...doh...sorry, I didn't get much sleep last night.

[secret garden]

This is news? To whom, the media?

[StarFan]

Can't wait till Hillary goes on the Today Show and gets grilled by Katie Couric about why her fat brother never returned the bulk of his pardon cash...doh...sorry, I didn't get much sleep last night.

LOL, I still fantasize she will appear on O'Reilly. Call me a cockeye optimistic but I still have hope of seeing the clintons in orange jump suits IN MY LIFETIME.

[NormsRevenge]

how about ce$$pool?

[GOPJ]

If you're going to post, post the whole story.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

If you're going to post, post the whole story.

McFly! What source is this from?

[upchuck]

If you're going to post, post the whole story.

No can do.

[My Favorite Headache]

This has you all written over it

[jonascord]

They'll be having snowball fights in He!! before Slicky Boy will ever wear an orange jumpsuit...

[river rat]

It appears that both families - Clinton/Rodham, are greedy, corrupt, money grubbing, lying, cheating, bastardly white trash.
An jeeze, He was elected President, and she Senator...
Such a country... Such a STUPID electorate.
My faith in the Judicial system will not be restored until both Bubba and Bubbette are in prison.
Semper Fi

[slimer]

Must be a vast right wing conspirocy

[TheGoodDoc]

Hillary has never appeared on anything other than a carefully micromanaged, utterly staged interview with her sleezy "Bias" type media toadies.

She is an empty suit, albeit a black and crusty pantsuit.

[kcvl]

The committee also determined that President Clinton granted a pardon to fugitive financier Marc Rich only after his sponsor, former White House Counsel Jack Quinn, went around the Justice Department. Quinn apparently did so on the advice of then-Deputy Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., who was hoping to be elevated to attorney general if Al Gore was elected president, the report found.

For instance, the committee said it found one e-mail from Holder to Quinn, written during the 2000 presidential recount, telling him to "go straight to wh [White House]" and that the "time is good" for a Rich pardon.

Holder has said that he learned of the Rich pardon just as Clinton was about to leave office and had hoped that prosecutors in New York, where Rich was convicted, were being allowed to give their recommendation against the pardon.