World Net Daily-June 28, 2000
Hillary's brothers
By Joseph Farah
Late last year, Time Magazine looked into the business affairs of
Tony and Hugh Rodham, Hillary Rodham Clinton's brothers.
The magazine found that there have been at least two occasions
where the Rodham boys obtained White House meetings with top
administration officials on behalf of their business associates.
This appears to be one more way -- of many -- that the Clinton
clan benefits personally from Bill and Hillary's White House
experience.
President Clinton even agreed to a scheduled drop-by with the
mayor of Moscow after Tony Rodham arranged for him to come to the
White House at a time when Rodham's clients were hoping to secure
the mayor's support for a lucrative business deal in Moscow. In
1997, Tony Rodham arranged a White House meeting for Moscow Mayor
Yuri Luzhkov at the request of Gene Prescott, who was involved
with a start-up company that hoped to bring "smart" credit-debit
cards to Russia with Luzhkov's support. As reports linked Luzhkov
to members of the Russian mafia, Tony Rodham's request on his
behalf made things very uncomfortable for Sandy Berger, the
national security adviser. Nevertheless, in April 1997, Berger
agreed to meet with Luzhkov and President Clinton arranged to
stop by.
Conflict of interest? Not in the Clinton dictionary.
Hugh Rodham was one of several lawyers who began negotiating a
possible settlement with a gun industry trade group in 1999.
Robert Ricker, the former head of the group, said Hugh Rodham
helped arrange a White House meeting in early May with White
House counsel Bruce Lindsey, domestic policy adviser Bruce Reed
and others.
Huh? Is this family playing all the angles or what?
According to Ralph Nader, Hugh Rodham represented tobacco
companies while the administration was hammering them with
lawsuits.
There's a pattern developing here.
In August 1999, the Rodham brothers and sometime partner Stephen
Graham flew to Batumi in the former Soviet republic of Georgia to
look over a potential $118 million hazelnut operation. But they
tumbled into the Byzantine world of post-Soviet politics. Batumi
is ruled by Aslan Abashidze, a powerful rival to U.S. ally and
Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze; Abashidze feted them for
the huge investment they were expected to bring. While Tony
Rodham says Abashidze did not exploit his White House
connections, Shevardnadze sympathizers say he used the visit to
claim he had a seal of approval from the U.S. government, a
useful imprimatur in upcoming elections. Berger reportedly told
the brothers to end the hazelnut deal and after first resisting;
they relented.
But Tony Rodham later told Time that he is "restructuring" the
venture.
I give you all this background as a preface for the latest news
on the Hugh and Tony Rodham front.
Taiwan Vice President Annette Lu met with them last week for what
was called, in the Chinese press, a "secret meeting."
Legislator Parris Chang, former Democratic Progressive Party
representative in Washington, who was instrumental in arranging
the Rodhams' low-key visit to Taipei, declined to disclose
whether the first lady's brothers brought along any message from
President Clinton, the China Times reported.
Chang, however, said the visit by Hugh and Tony Rodham was useful
in bolstering understanding and increasing interaction between
Taiwan and the United States. During the lunch, Vice President Lu
exchanged views with the Rodhams on Taipei-Beijing relations and
on the impact of the Korean summit on the cross-strait situation,
according to Chang.
The Rodhams expressed the hope that Taiwan will further bolster
its publicity in the United States so as to enable the American
public to better know Taiwan and its people, Chang said.
According to Chang, others present at the secret lunch included
National Security Council Secretary-General Chuang Ming-yao,
Mainland Affairs Council Chair Tsai Ing-wen, and Overseas Chinese
Affairs Commission Chair Chang Fu-mei.
Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, meanwhile,
declined to comment on the lunch, only saying that the MOFA knew
nothing of the Rodham visit.
Now what are we to make of this?
I'll tell you what. Judging from the company the Rodhams have
kept throughout the course of the Clinton administration, I would
be very concerned right now if I was a resident of Taiwan.
These guys are always on the opposite side of the administration,
apparently skimming anything they can get through not-so-subtle
extortion. My guess is that they went to Taiwan for campaign
contributions for the Democrats -- especially Hillary's New York
Senate bid.
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