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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 5, 2000
Contact: Tom Fitton
(202) 646-5172
CLINTON-GORE ADMINISTRATION ORDERED BY COURT TO TURN OVER
DOCUMENTS IN PORTALS SCANDAL CASE
Clinton Appointee Rules Against Administration on Document
Request Related to Gore Scandal
Portals Real Estate Project Benefitted Gore Fundraisers, Hurt
Taxpayers
(Washington, DC) The Honorable Ricardo M. Urbina, U.S. District
Court Judge, ruled last week that the Clinton-Gore Administration
must waive fees and turn over to Judicial Watch documents
relating to a controversial government leasing arrangement that
benefitted individuals close to Al Gore. In response to a
Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on the
Portals leasing controversy, the General Services Administration
had sought to make Judicial Watch pay for thousands of documents
before turning them over and sought to summarily dismiss a FOIA
lawsuit Judicial Watch brought to obtain the documents. Judge
Urbina ruled in favor of Judicial Watch. Publically available
evidence suggests that Gore confidants benefitted, at the expense
of taxpayers, from million dollar contingency fees in a lease
deal between the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the
Portals Washington, DC office project, which is run by another
Gore supporter.
Without expressing any opinion on the underlying merits of the
allegations, Judge Urbina ruled on September 25, 2000, that,
among other things:
...the court agrees that the (Judicial Watch) FOIA request...
implicates important public interests. To begin with, federal
taxpayers paid for the FCC’s lease of the vacant Portals office
space, which gives the public a direct and tangible interest in
information bearing on the lease and the events surrounding it.
Specifically, the public has an interest in information which
could help them decide whether an agency’s expenditure of their
tax monies was based on sound financial or functional
considerations or on other, arguably less appropriate
considerations...Closely related is the fundamental public
interest in information bearing on the alleged possibility that
the Vice President and others violated legal or ethical standards
in connection with the FCC-Portals lease. Neither of these
interests is peculiar to the plaintiffs or their supporters.
(emphasis added)
“The decision by Judge Urbina is a significant victory for not
only Judicial Watch, but for the American taxpayer. We are
hopeful we can get to the heart of a scandal that some estimate
cost the U.S. taxpayer tens of millions of dollars in unneeded
costs – all, allegedly, to benefit a small group of Gore
cronies,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
Judicial Watch, Inc. is a public interest law firm that
investigates and prosecutes government corruption.
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