-Caveat Lector-
ALL PRESENTS WERE ACCOUNTED FOR, SHE SAYS
Friday,January 26,2001
By BRIAN BLOMQUIST and DEBORAH ORIN
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday defended
taking more than $190,000 in furniture and other gifts from fat
cats like Denise Rich, whose ex-husband got a controversial
pardon from Bill Clinton.
But a top ethics watchdog blasted the New York's Democrat for
taking freebies to help furnish her new houses, saying: "It
totally smells."
Sen. Clinton told The Post: "We followed all the rules that were
applicable. That's all I have to say."
None of the gifts was revealed during her Senate campaign. All
would be barred now - Senate rules say a senator can't take any
gift worth more than $50 or a total of $100 from a single person
each year.
Donors say the gifts were solicited as house-warming presents
before the Clintons left the White House.
"It does sound like there were deliberate efforts to circumvent
the laws . . . I can't think of a time when a U.S. president
and first lady have left in a more undistinguished and unbecoming
way," said Chuck Lewis, head of the Center for Public Integrity.
"I don't know how big the truck was but it must have been pretty
big. There is the appearance of them enriching themselves from
public service and public life . . . It totally smells.
There is something rotten here."
The furor over the gifts - which the Clintons didn't reveal until
the ex-president's last night in office - erupted just as he
handed out a deluge of pardons, including one to Rich's
fugitive-financier ex-hubby, Marc.
Denise Rich donated an estimated $1 million to the Clintons'
campaigns and other Democrats and raised millions more at her
posh penthouse on Fifth Avenue.
She also gave the Clintons two coffee tables and two chairs worth
$7,375 after getting a wish list of items the Clintons wanted
last March.
"Denise picked the gifts for the Clintons as a house-warming gift
in March 2000. She was given a list of suggestions and she chose
the items," said her spokesman, Howard Rubenstein.
Rich initially denied lobbying for the pardon, but she had sent a
Dec. 6 letter begging Clinton to do it "with all my heart."
The Clintons kept nearly four times as much as the $52,853 in
gifts that President Bush's dad took in his final year in office.
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