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Clinton set to announce last pardons
Thursday, 18 January 2001 21:40 (ET) Clinton set to announce last pardonsBy
MARK KUKIS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- President Clinton plans to announce
a finallist of pardons Friday in a move that may clear the names
of some of themost controversial figures involved in his
political career, White Houseaides said.
"We've received, either here or at the Department of Justice,
literallyhundreds of requests," said White House spokesman Jake
Siewert.
"But I don'tknow that all of them have come through in the proper
way and the properchannels. So we'll look at as many as we can."
White House officials said the list of possible pardons includes
WebsterHubbell and Susan McDougal, long-time Clinton associates
convicted of crimes though special investigations of the Clintons
financial dealing when thepresident was the governor of Arkansas.
Beginning in 1996, three independent counsels, most notably
Kenneth W.Starr, investigated whether the president and first
lady Hilary Rodham Clinton were guilty of criminal wrongdoing in
a failed Arkansas real estatedeal known was Whitewater.
The probe officially ended in September, whenindependent counsel
Robert W. Ray determined that there was insufficientevidence to
convict the Clintons of either crimes related to Whitewater oran
alleged cover up.
But the investigation convicted 12 others and spun off parallel
probesthat eventually led to Clinton's impeachment in the House
for allegedperjury in statements to investigators about his
relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
The Senate subsequently acquitted Clinton.
Formerly a ranking Justice Department official, Hubbell was
convicted fordefrauding his law firm in Little Rock, Ark.
McDougal spent 21 months in jail after being implicated in a
$300,000illegal federal loan, part of which was used as money in
Whitewater.
Whilein jail, McDougal refused to answer questions about the
Clintons by independent counsel Starr in a standoff that
prolonged her jail time.
McDougal and Hubbell represent perhaps the most politically
contentious of Clinton's possible pardons Friday. But a number of
other clemency appeals under consideration by Clinton have
stirred controversy as well.
Convicted of securities fraud, Michael Milken is reportedly a
contenderfor a presidential pardon. In 1993, Milken served 22
months of a ten-yearsentence, paid $47 million in fines and was
banned from the securitiesindustry for life.
But influential Democratic donors have reportedly arguedon
Milken's behalf on grounds of his philanthropy.
In another appeal, American Indian activist Leonard Peltier is
seeking clemency after being convicted of killing two FBI agents
in 1977. Peltierhas maintained his innocence, but leadership at
the FBI remains fiercely opposed to a pardon.
Convicted in 1985 of spying for Israel, Jonathan Pollard also has
a clemency appeal reportedly under consideration.
In December, Clinton pardoned former Democratic House Ways and
Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois and Tyson
Foods executive Archie Schaffer, who was sentenced to a year in
prison after being convicted of trying illegally to influence
former agriculture secretary Mike Espy.
Clinton also pardoned 57 others at the same time, bringing his
total clemency grants to 280.
Once widely used, presidential clemency dropped off steeply under
former President Ronald Reagan, who pardoned an estimated 400
people during his eight years in office. Former President Carter
averaged about 200 pardons a year.
Former President George Bush pardoned 78 people.
Copyright 2001 by United Press International.All rights reserved.
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