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Dateline D.C. - Sunday, February 11, 2001
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Colombian cocaine cartel money launderer wins Clinton clemency
``Dateline D.C.'' is written by a Washington, D.C.-based British
journalist and political observer.
WASHINGTON - Quite enough trees have been pulped into paper to
carry stories about the presidential pardon purchased by the
thieving Marc Rich and his ever-willing business partner Pincus
"Pinky" Green without our adding to this environmental disaster.
However, if we shrug off these now-pardoned billionaire thieves,
realistically saying what do we expect from Bill Clinton and
their unsavory-looking attorney, Jack Quinn, we can take some
comfort in the fact that it was only money - our money - that
Rich stole in what prosecutors said was the biggest tax-fraud
case in history.
Even more money will be spent during the next couple of weeks as
the House and Senate gear up for hearings on Rich and Green.
Obviously, documents are flying around and subpoenas are being
issued, but no one seems to realize that this is yet another
typical Clinton escapade.
However, this story is not about Marc or Pinky, but another happy
recipient of Bill Clinton's power to commute sentences. The
happy felon is Harvey Weinig, who in the 1980s was a lawyer in
Manhattan. Harvey was serving an 11-year jail sentence for money
laundering until in the dim twilight zone of his presidency Bill
Clinton set him free. In all probability, Harvey's name means
nothing to you, but it will.
Why should Americans pay taxes to fund efforts to stop illegal
drugs when presidential pardons are available? Once again, if
enough people know about Harvey Weinig, they might vote down Bill
and Hillary when they next dare to venture out to face voters.
Harvey and a friend of his by the name of Robert Hersch once
worked for a prestigious Manhattan law firm, Berger and Steingut.
Stanley Steingut, who has occupied an unrecorded burial plot for
the past 10 years, for decades was the most powerful Democratic
Party boss in New York state. As speaker of the New York State
Assembly, Stanley decided what measures would come up for a vote
and what would go to oblivion. He never did favors, he traded
favors and some are still being called.
Part of Steingut's public career, like Hillary Rodham Clinton's,
centered on health care for the aged. Stanley's career ended
abruptly when the miserable, filthy conditions and enforced
poverty of elderly men and women kept in the chain of nursing
homes that he controlled, for his own personal profit, were
blasted over the front pages of every New York City newspaper.
Steingut, enormously rich and unrepentant, soon disappeared.
For a while, his law firm remained, but it did not prosper. Not
even Democrats could stand the stench.
Weinig and Hersch were worthy members of Steingut's apparatus.
They made money, lots and lots of money. Someone who knew them
both told the story. The Colombian drug cartel would send
cocaine to Manhattan; and it would be sold for many, many dollars
on the streets, in bars, in clubs, on street corners -
everywhere. The dealers carried money from the sales to Weinig
and his office mate, Hersch. Both these members of the New York
State Bar became bankers and money launderers to the Colombian
drug lords.
Hersch and Weinig recruited a number of "runners" to carry the
loot. Generally, these were rabbis who had some association with
the gem trade. So, if their runner was apprehended by U.S.
Customs for smuggling unreported currency, he would claim that
the thousands of dollars in his pockets were going for the
purchase of gemstones. It worked! The Colombian drug cartel got
its money and exported more and more cocaine to Manhattan.
Weinig and Hersch prospered - enormously! But they were greedy.
One day they went to the U.S. Attorney's Office and stole some
letterhead, various forms and some government rubber stamps.
Then they prepared a sheaf of documents purporting to show how
the FBI and the U.S. Attorney had discovered $3 million of drug
money and confiscated it, so there was nothing left for the
Colombians. Our two thieving, money-laundering lawyers were very
sad, but delighted that they had $3 million for themselves.
They were happy for a whole two days.
It is said that two FBI agents turned up at the offices of Berger
and Steingut at about 4 o'clock on a Thursday afternoon. They
told one of the three beautiful receptionists that they were
there to see Weinig and Hersch, adding, "No, we don't have an
appointment."
Reportedly, the FBI agents told Weinig and Hersch that they had
stopped in on their way home, and just wanted to tell both money
launderers that the bureau knew what was going on. The agents
explained that they were not going to waste time asking if the
heist of $3 million was fact. The agents just smiled saying, "It
doesn't matter to us, guys. You see the Colombians didn't
believe those documents you forged, and are on the way to get
you. They know you are thieves and you won't die easy!"
Within 30 minutes, Weinig and Hersch confessed everything and
left their Park Avenue offices en route to the bureau's New York
office and jail.
Hersch, it is said, cooperated fully, helped convict several
other major drug figures and entered the witness protection
program. He has vanished. Maybe he still is a protected
witness, or maybe the drug lords got him. Weinig, having
admitted a great deal, wasn't as bold. He pleaded guilty and was
sent to jail for 11 years. Hillary, that lovely junior senator
from New York, is said to have asked Bill to commute Weinig's
sentence - just because Weinig's old friends, still the most
powerful creatures in New York politics from the Steingut days,
wanted to show their power. "We had our senator's husband
commute the sentence of a major druggie," and their next line is,
"What can we do for you? It will cost."
But it's bad news, Harvey. You may be out of jail, but the
Colombians have long memories and they are so very unforgiving.
And as for those larceny-hearted former occupants of 1600
Pennsylvania Ave., could they really have known why Harvey Weinig
had been jailed and would we believe their answer?
As we think about jail, grand juries, truth and belief, our
thoughts turn toward New Jersey's Democratic Sen. Robert "The
Torch" Torricelli, who has recently hired a new public relations
executive and more and more lawyers.
We are pleased to be able to say that these new hirings have
nothing to do with Bianca Jagger, once upon a time the light of
the Torricelli life.
Obviously, Torricelli can now spend his money wherever he wants,
and money he has in the form of a defense fund, which opened last
Dec. 15, and in two weeks had raised $397,000.
As could have been expected of the Reno Justice Department, they
told lucky Bob that he was not the target of the grand jury
investigating fund raising in his 1996 campaign. So why would
the senator's friends give so much and so quickly to a defense
fund? Are they speculating that their friend has done something
that has to be defended in the courts?
Now, the Torricelli team has moved into an attack mode, terming
the ongoing investigation "simply grotesque." That statement is
stupid because the Feds are now investigating (as targets) David
Plouffe, former executive director of the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee; Adam Crain, the main New Jersey
fund-raiser; and Roberta Stern, who coordinated fund raising.
If these three provide damaging information, the senator from New
Jersey's legal bills will exceed the $581,000 that he has spent
on them since mid-1999.
So far, it seems, Susan Holloway, "The Torch's" ex-wife who has
remained a top political fund-raiser, has not been a focus of the
investigation. The reasons, claim the Torricelli campaign, are
because Susan was a "national" fund-raiser and her activities
were unrelated to the New Jersey investigation.
Perhaps one day, Susan will be persuaded to talk about her former
husband's dealings with Robert Vind, a manufacturer of fuel-grade
ethanol; or perhaps the Torricelli connection with Archer Daniels
Midland, now, after their last scandal, just plain ADM.
That may have been ideal for Janet Reno's Department of Justice
because it enabled the central figure in the probe, David Chang,
a gentleman with Korean connections, not to be questioned about
President Bill Clinton and the free rides Chang received on Air
Force One, or Torricelli or retired Adm. Daniel Murphy. Chang
reached a plea agreement and has cooperated with the federal
investigators since last year. Perhaps it is time for the head
of the campaign finance task force to ask about Dan Murphy, his
visits to Pyongyang, whom he talked to and what he carried back
with him.
With John Ashcroft confirmed as attorney general, Susan Holloway
and Daniel Murphy, allegedly not yet interviewed, and Chang
singing like the proverbial canary, the Torricelli legal team
will have plenty of work to do. Yet, that will be nothing new
for the lead attorneys, Robert Bauer, head of Perkins Coie's
Washington office, and Abbe Lowell of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips,
who, among a distinguished list of clients, also represents James
Riady of the Clinton Hall of Infamy.
And on and on it goes! Now we have Terry McAuliffe, the brand
new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, ranting on
national television about the "stolen election," justice,
injustice and the like.
McAuliffe appears to want Al Gore to run again for the presidency
in four years but obviously forgets that first money has to be
raised; and without access to Chinese and Indonesian funders, Al
will have a lot of trouble.
So much so as to persuade Joe Lieberman to tell people that if Al
does not run in the primaries, he will do so himself.
It may be only February in the first year of a new president's
term, but already the Democrats are getting frisky. Sen. John
Edwards as a Democratic standard bearer makes some sense; but
then there is John Kerry holding meetings and making sure that
his wealthy wife, the former Teresa Heinz, approves of his every
move. Also seeking entrance to the White House is Delaware's Joe
Biden, who tries disgracefully to be all things to all men and
for a chance at the Oval Office. Perhaps you can get on a
tourist line, Joe. It's your best bet.
``Dateline D.C.'' is written by a Washington, D.C.-based British
journalist and political observer.
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