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Sources: Evidence Suggests President's Brother Received Pardon Payments

Wednesday, March 14, 2001
By Rita Cosby     E-mail This Story

WASHINGTON ‹ The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan has
significant evidence that Roger Clinton "knowingly participated
in receiving" payments in 1998 from a client in return for his
efforts to obtain a pardon from his brother, former President
Bill Clinton, sources close to the investigation told Fox News.

FBI investigators recently headed to Texas to interview a mother
and son ‹ Alberta and Guy Lincecum ‹ who gave two checks for
$100,000 each to an Arkansas company called CLM, sources said.
The Lincecums said CLM's owners claimed Roger Clinton could get
their family member a pardon if the Lincecums paid that amount of
money.

CLM owner Dickey Morton denied the checks from the Lincecums were
payment for a pardon of Guy's brother, Garland, the New York
Daily News reported Wednesday. Garland is serving a seven-year
prison sentence for his role in an investment scam. Morton said
the Lincecums gave the company $235,000 for "advice on a scheme
to use a Christian foundation to sell tax-exempt bonds in Las
Vegas," the Daily News reported.

The pardon was not approved by the former president, who was in
Denmark Wednesday to give a speech to members of a business club.

Through his spokesperson, Roger Clinton denied ever receiving any
money for pardons and said he had never heard of CLM. But a
former federal prosecutor said it's a bad sign for Clinton that
the FBI went to Texas so quickly.

"I think the fact that agents have gone down does give an
indication that there are significant leads, that there is
significant evidence that's beyond rumor, that's beyond
accusations," said Barbara Olson, a former federal prosecutor.

Sources also said a team of federal prosecutors led by U.S.
Attorney Mary Jo White is being supplemented by 15 FBI
investigators. White is reporting her investigation to the head
of the criminal division at the Justice Department. Michael
Chertoff was nominated on Tuesday by President Bush to take over
that post. Chertoff previously served as counsel to the Senate
Whitewater Committee and an assistant U.S. attorney for the
Manhattan office.

Meanwhile, managers of former President Clinton's legal defense
fund released their latest semi-annual report Wednesday showing
that as of December 2000, $8.7 million has been raised through
donations. However, the fund has only $600,000 on hand after
paying legal expenses related to the Monica Lewinsky scandal and
Whitewater. The Clintons have racked up more than $11 million in
legal fees ‹ of which about $4 million is still outstanding.

Among those who donated the maximum amount of $10,000 to the fund
is Denise Rich, the ex-wife of pardoned fugitive financier Marc
Rich. The fund's trustee sees no conflict of interest.

"No reason to return it," said Fund trustee Anthony Essaye. "I
should clarify there was a contribution from one of [Denise
Rich's] daughters, Daniella, at around the same time. But they
were both in 1998, and we felt that they would be totally
unrelated to anything relating to the pardon."


FOXNews.com's Sharon Kehnemui contributed to this report

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