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ALEXANDRIA -- Two former top-level Pentagon officials were charged Friday with accepting more than $1 million in bribes and kickbacks and using their influence over defense contracts to extort cash, prostitutes and boxing tickets. Robert Lee Neal Jr., 50, of Bowie, Md., was appointed by President Clinton in 1996 to serve as director of the Pentagon's office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (SADBU), which assures that minority-owned businesses get a share of available defense contracts. According to a 52-page affidavit filed by Cynthia Stroot, a special agent with the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Neal and his top assistant, Francis...

Although some of the details of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit to the area have not yet been released, local officials have confirmed two of her stops. Melanie Stepp, president and CEO of the Geneva Area Chamber of Commerce, said Clinton is scheduled to arrive in Geneva at 3 p.m. Thursday, where she will have two private meetings at the chamber of commerce office - the first with city officials, the second with representatives from area chambers. Stepp, plans to attend the second meeting and said she would like to speak to Clinton about the proposed Finger Lakes Institute and...

Clinton Cordial with Milosevic in Leaked Transcripts Wed Feb 6, 7:57 AM ET By Douglas Hamilton BELGRADE (Reuters) - Slobodan Milosevic had cordial relations with Bill Clinton and was apoplectic when the daily newspaper meant to be his mouthpiece savaged the then-U.S. president in a bungled editorial, according to transcripts of his phone calls. The leaked transcripts, published by the Croatian weekly Globus, are the current media sensation in the Balkans. Croatian defense ministry sources told Reuters in Zagreb on Wednesday they were authentic excerpts from wiretaps of hundreds of calls recorded by the Croatian military intelligence service, but there ...

Gene Tatum's revelations are EXPLOSIVE, naming many names and connections that go to the very top. He claims to have video and audio cassette evidence directly implicating the biggest of the big. He was recently hidden away deep in some federal pen. I am not sure of his present status, but his life may very well be in danger. He should not be silenced and he should be protected. Tatum's information has the compelling quality of one who was on the scene. The supprssion of what he has to say adds to its veracity. But you can judge that for ...

Murder, Inc. ``Don't believe a word you hear. It was not suicide. It couldn't have been.'' -Assistant Attorney General Webster Hubbell, 7/20/93, on White House counsel Vincent Foster's death, cited in Esquire, 11/93. ``Ron's dead. They can't indict him.'' -Nolanda Hill, from ABC NEWS Primetime Live, 1997-Jun-18 If you have the energy, you can investigate the Mena-BCCI-Inslaw-CIA-NSA-Foster-Etc "Octopus" (Octupus within an Octupus, really, since my own compilation describes the top-level global Octopus) at http://www.washington-weekly.com/menascandal.html and http://www.washington-weekly.com/inslawsc.html. from TPDL 1999-Apr-8, from Capital Hill Blue, by Doug Thompson: Away from public eye, Bill Clinton is a violent, profane man who wants to ...

Bush's DEA appointee knows a thing or two about drug smuggling. George W. Bush’s nomination of Asa Hutchinson to head the Drug Enforcement Administration is a crushing blow to those who couldn’t bring themselves to believe the sordid stories of George Junior consorting with drug smuggler Barry Seal. As reported in the new book "Barry & ‘the boys,’" and magazines and newsletters like "From the Wilderness" and "High Times," George the II had much more than a nodding acquaintance with the biggest drug smuggler in American history and his notorious Mena operation. Instead of downplaying this connection while focusing ...

The Clintons and the Union Boss Arthur Coia's ties to the Mafia have been documented, but the Clinton White House continues to coddle him. Why?? Has the Clintons' coziness with Coia dampened the Justice Department's drive to clean up this crooked union? IN FEBRUARY 1995 Hillary Rodham Clinton journeyed to Miami Beach's posh Fontainebleau hotel to address nearly 1000 top officials of the 352,000-member Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA). The First Lady posed for photographs with union General President Arthur A. Coia, a slight, grinning figure among the hefty Laborers. In his introduction, Coia praised Mrs. Clinton as ...

'The Russian Mob' and 'The Arkansas Mob' Taking care of business, Russian style GENEVA -- The Clinton administration has reacted to charges of massive corruption at the Kremlin by doing a very good imitation of the wonderfully cynical Claude Raines in Casablanca, discovering that gambling was taking place at Rick's Bar. The White House piously proclaimed itself "shocked, absolutely shocked" by charges its Russian pals had stolen billions in western aid. What the absolutely shocked Bill Clinton and Al Gore didn't know is old news to every Russian child from Smolensk to Sakhalin. In recent weeks, two new scandals have ...

The Strange Death of Ron Miller Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were in contact with the M.E.'s office during his autopsy. by Constitution Staff In the middle of October of 1997, Norman businessman Ron Miller was scheduled to testify before a congressional committee. According to several sources, Miller was prepared to implicate President Clinton's Chief of Staff Thomas F. McLarty III in Oklahoma-related scandals. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was exposed to, at a minimum, severe embarrassment if Miller testified. (For more on this story, see the Spring 2001 issue of the Oklahoma Constitution, or consult ...

In this era of the War on Terrorism, senior Democrats have decided that the best - possibly the only - way to beat George W Bush in the 2004 presidential elections is to put up a soldier against him.A retired general, Wesley Clark, the supreme commander of Nato during its successful campaign in Kosovo, is widely expected to announce his candidacy for the White House in the next few days, backed by powerful members of the United States Congress.In an open field, where none of the nine current Democrat candidates has established a clear lead, a late entry by Gen...