Pardon Scandal
Pardon Scandal Still Looms for Sen. Clinton's Brother
January 25, 2007 1:04 PM
Maddy Sauer Reports:
A court-appointed bankruptcy trustee asked a federal judge this week to schedule a new court date in a case against Tony Rodham, the brother of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., accused of failing to repay $109,000 in loans from a carnival company whose owners received controversial pardons issued by President Bill Clinton in the last hours of his presidency.
According to documents filed in the case, Rodham received the loans, before and after the pardons were granted, from United Shows of America, Inc., owned by Edgar Gregory and his wife, who had been convicted of defrauding several banks.
See the loans paid to Tony Rodham and the actual checks to Tony Rodham.
A congressional report by the Republican-controlled House Reform Committee concluded Rodham "had tried to sell his access to the White House" and that "but for Tony Rodham's lobbying efforts, the Gregory pardons would not have been granted."
With the company now in bankruptcy and Gregory dead, the court-appointed federal trustee for United Shows, Michael Collins, has spent two years trying to get Rodham to repay the outstanding loans.
Collins first had Rodham's accounts frozen in 2005 after Rodham failed to respond to an initial complaint filed by Collins.
The judge issued a default judgment against Rodham.
Rodham appealed, asking for more time to respond, and the judge unfroze the accounts.
"Now, of course, that's money we're going to have to find all over again," said Collins, the trustee. "I guess he wouldn't leave the money in there."
Rodham has not returned a request seeking comment from ABC News, and a woman answering his home phone in Vienna, Va., said, "He probably won't call you back."
During the investigation of the Clinton pardons, Rodham publicly maintained that he worked as a consultant for the Gregorys to help obtain contracts for the carnival business. He refused to be interviewed by congressional investigators but told Larry King on CNN in March 2001, "The Gregorys are the kind of people that the pardon system is made for."
At the time, the Gregorys said they saw nothing wrong with seeking Rodham's help to get their pardons, which were issued over objections from the Department of Justice.
According to the congressional report, Rodham was paid over $240,000 in consultant fees by United Shows in addition to the loans.
The bankruptcy trustee only seeks the return of the loan money which, with interest, he calculates at over $150,000.
At the urging of President and Mrs. Clinton in February 2001, her other brother, Hugh, promised to return some of the $400,000 he received from individuals who also were granted pardons by President Clinton in other cases.
January 25, 2007 1:04 PM
Maddy Sauer Reports:
A court-appointed bankruptcy trustee asked a federal judge this week to schedule a new court date in a case against Tony Rodham, the brother of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., accused of failing to repay $109,000 in loans from a carnival company whose owners received controversial pardons issued by President Bill Clinton in the last hours of his presidency.
According to documents filed in the case, Rodham received the loans, before and after the pardons were granted, from United Shows of America, Inc., owned by Edgar Gregory and his wife, who had been convicted of defrauding several banks.
See the loans paid to Tony Rodham and the actual checks to Tony Rodham.
A congressional report by the Republican-controlled House Reform Committee concluded Rodham "had tried to sell his access to the White House" and that "but for Tony Rodham's lobbying efforts, the Gregory pardons would not have been granted."
With the company now in bankruptcy and Gregory dead, the court-appointed federal trustee for United Shows, Michael Collins, has spent two years trying to get Rodham to repay the outstanding loans.
Collins first had Rodham's accounts frozen in 2005 after Rodham failed to respond to an initial complaint filed by Collins.
The judge issued a default judgment against Rodham.
Rodham appealed, asking for more time to respond, and the judge unfroze the accounts.
"Now, of course, that's money we're going to have to find all over again," said Collins, the trustee. "I guess he wouldn't leave the money in there."
Rodham has not returned a request seeking comment from ABC News, and a woman answering his home phone in Vienna, Va., said, "He probably won't call you back."
During the investigation of the Clinton pardons, Rodham publicly maintained that he worked as a consultant for the Gregorys to help obtain contracts for the carnival business. He refused to be interviewed by congressional investigators but told Larry King on CNN in March 2001, "The Gregorys are the kind of people that the pardon system is made for."
At the time, the Gregorys said they saw nothing wrong with seeking Rodham's help to get their pardons, which were issued over objections from the Department of Justice.
According to the congressional report, Rodham was paid over $240,000 in consultant fees by United Shows in addition to the loans.
The bankruptcy trustee only seeks the return of the loan money which, with interest, he calculates at over $150,000.
At the urging of President and Mrs. Clinton in February 2001, her other brother, Hugh, promised to return some of the $400,000 he received from individuals who also were granted pardons by President Clinton in other cases.
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You don't think some politicians are crooked do you? 0 -
I just knew those Clintonx were "Carny Folk"..[:p][:p] 0 -
What scandal? Everyone knew about this crap from the get go. Don 0 -
And yet, for some unknown reason, there is no witch hunt like the one's the Republicans are about to get..... 0 -
There were other Clinton pardons that bother me more, and in all fairness, you can't hold Hillary accountable for Bill's actions.
Still, I think she's so crooked she has to screw her pants on in the morning.0 -
ah, but the pardons benifited her because the further they dug, the 'deeper' the 'Whitewater' could have gotten[}:)] 0 -
It's only $109,000 for crying out loud. The Clintons have made about $30,000,000 since leaving the White House. Why don't they just pay off the load and stop the scandal, bail out a family members, and look like good guys?
I swear that sometimes I just don't know what people are thinking? That money would be chump change to Bill and Hillary and settling the matter would put a cork in the critics.0 -
quote:Originally posted by SaxonPig
It's only $109,000 for crying out loud. The Clintons have made about $30,000,000 since leaving the White House. Why don't they just pay off the load and stop the scandal, bail out a family members, and look like good guys?
I swear that sometimes I just don't know what people are thinking? That money would be chump change to Bill and Hillary and settling the matter would put a cork in the critics.
Because they are too ethical to do that?0 -
quote:Originally posted by SaxonPig
It's only $109,000 for crying out loud. The Clintons have made about $30,000,000 since leaving the White House. Why don't they just pay off the load and stop the scandal, bail out a family members, and look like good guys?
I swear that sometimes I just don't know what people are thinking? That money would be chump change to Bill and Hillary and settling the matter would put a cork in the critics.
They are liberals. They are incapable of accepting responsibility for their actions.0 -
Forget doing the right thing... how about doing the smart thing? For such a small amount of money (to them) just make it go away and not give political enemies ammo. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by SaxonPig
Forget doing the right thing... how about doing the smart thing? For such a small amount of money (to them) just make it go away and not give political enemies ammo.
Even if paid, their political enemies would refer to it. Can see it now: "They paid it so they knew it was dirty from the gitgo."0 -
Once the matter is settled the news media will quickly leave it and the opposition can't keep it alive in the public interest if it isn't in the news. That's where the Dems have the advantage. Vast majority of media is Democrat so they ensure that anti-GOP news stays news until it hurts Reps. Bad Dem news gets dropped ASAP.
Paying won't look like politics, it will look like family bailing out a relative. Clintons have best spin Drs in the world and they would make it look an act of sainthood.0 -
quote: Vast majority of media is Democrat..... And who OWNS the media outlets? I submit the owners are predominately Republicans. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by HAIRY
quote: Vast majority of media is Democrat..... And who OWNS the media outlets? I submit the owners are predominately Republicans.
not likely. there's lots of BIG $$$ demos out there with stakes in a lot a businesses, especially media outfits. To be sure, there are a lot of Republicans too, but unfortunately we don't have the monopoly on the business community we once had.0
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