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Saturday, Feb. 24, 2001 12:57 a.m. EST
Second Hillary Brother Suspected in Pardongate Payoff
Just two days after Sen. Hillary Clinton ordered her brother Hugh
Rodham to return a $400,000 payment he received for obtaining two
controversial presidential pardons, a report says her other
brother, Tony Rodham, may also be implicated in the
clemency-for-cash scandal.
"Sources from the former president's inner circle today told
ABCNEWS that they have heard 'rumors and speculation' that Sen.
Clinton's other brother, Tony Rodham, may have also been paid to
help win pardons or commutations for certain individuals," the
network reported on its Web site late Friday.
"They say they have told a lawyer for Rodham they want to know if
that is true," ABC News added.
On Thursday Steven Coz, editor in chief of the National Enquirer,
told Fox News that the paper was developing a story about yet
another "Clinton family member" who may have accepted $100,000 to
obtain a presidential pardon.
Speculation immediately focused on Roger Clinton, who only hours
before had been sent a list of questions by the House Government
Reform and Oversight Committee in connection with several pardons
he may have helped to obtain.
But the ABC News report suggests that it may be Tony Rodham, and
not Roger Clinton, to whom Coz was referring.
Late Friday, Roger Clinton admitted he had sought pardons from
his brother for six of his friends but denied accepting any money
in connection with the effort.
"I did everything legitimately," Clinton told the Los Angeles
Times. "I took no money."
Clinton said he was shocked and disappointed that his brother
declined to grant any of his pardon requests. But Roger declined
to identify the friends he tried to help and refused to say
whether he had been involved in obtaining presidential clemency
for any of them.
The omission may be key, since House probers say now they have
information that Roger Clinton may have accepted $30,000 to help
Carlos Vignale, a California drug dealer whose 15-year prison
sentence was commuted by President Clinton on January 20 after
his father showered local politicians with cash.
Vignale was convicted in 1994 of conspiring to sell 800 pounds of
cocaine.
Roger Clinton told the Times that he tried to obtain pardons for
"only my best friends I've known for 20 years or more" - but that
his brother declined his requests.
Mitchell C. Wood, described by Fox News Friday as Roger's
"boyhood friend," did get a pardon for his 1986 conviction on
charges that grew out of a massive federal and state
investigation into an Arkansas cocaine ring.
Among those snared in the probe was Dan Lasater, a megabuck
Clinton contributor who the then-governor pardoned in 1990.
Wood told a federal judge that Roger Clinton was his cocaine
supplier. Both Wood and Clinton cooperated with investigators and
served reduced jail sentences.
Two weeks ago, Wood told the Wall Street Journal that he was
mystified as to why President Clinton had granted him a pardon,
since "he would not have any idea who I was."
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