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Monday, March 19, 2001 4:47 p.m. EST
Pardongate Flashback: Lasater Party Girl Speaks Out
In a little-noticed report last month on the 11th-hour pardons
Roger Clinton sought from his brother, the Washington Post
revealed what may turn out to be the most explosive aspect of the
clemency-for-cash scandal now swirling around the former first
family.
Buried on page 7 of the Post's little-read Saturday edition, the
headline seemed rather mundane: "Clinton's Brother Promised
Pardons." But scattered throughout the story was a name that
should have set off smoke alarms in newsrooms all across America.
"Dan R. Lasater, a Little Rock bond broker convicted in 1986 of
cocaine distribution, said Roger Clinton told him late last year
he would put in a good word on his behalf with the president,"
the Post reported.
"A millionaire entrepeneur who backed several Arkansas
Democrats, including Bill Clinton's campaigns, Lasater got a
conditional state pardon from then-Governor Clinton in 1990.
Lasater said he lent Roger Clinton $8,000 in 1984 to pay off
cocaine debts."
But there's more - much, much more to the Lasater story,
information so radioactive that there's little doubt Bill and
Hillary Clinton are more worried over the Bush Justice
Department's decision to make Roger a target of its Pardongate
probe than about any other aspect of the investigation.
The best account of Dan Lasater's world comes from Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard, the former Washignton bureau chief of the London
Sunday Telegraph whose 1997 biography, "The Secret Life of Bill
Clinton," was largely overlooked by the press.
"Dan Lasater's Drug Trafficking Organization" reads the key
chapter heading. On the pages inside, the author quotes excerpts
from law enforcement documents covering the accounts of several
Lasater party girls who inhabited a world not exactly unknown to
both Bill and Roger Clinton.
Here's the opening paragraph from the police statement of
Patti-Anne Smith, who was only 16 years old when she met Little
Rock's most notorious "bond daddy":
"I was a virgin until two months after I met Dan Lasater. He
plied me with cocaine and gifts for sexual favors and I finally
gave in and slept with him. ... I could get an eight ball [from
Lasater] whenever I wanted it. I carried a vial of it around at
school."
After a visit to a Lasater-supplied gynecologist, who put
Patti-Anne on birth control pills, Lasater was making her
available for the sexual entertainment of his business
colleagues.
When investigators tracked her down to gain testimony against
Lasater two years later, the terms they used to describe
Patti-Anne were "drugged-out party girl" and "basket case."
And she was not alone. Here's the police statement of Michele
Cochran - 19 years old when she met Lasater.
"He used drugs and money eventually to seduce me. As a result of
the relationship I became addicted to cocaine."
Another teen-age Lasater alum told police that after a few
months in his orbit, she "would sometimes get up and snort
cocaine in order to start my day."
Author Evans-Pritchard managed to track Patti-Anne Smith down
some 13 years later. Her account is fascinating for two reasons.
First, for the pure shock value of what she endured during her
days as an inhabitant of Lasater's world.
And second, because the fact that an American president pardoned
a thug like Lasater once on state charges - only to have the
president's brother seek a second, federal pardon - is absolutely
beyond belief.
"I was the youngest of all the girls," Patti-Anne told
Evans-Pritchard. "We were like hens in a roost, with the rooster.
We got along in a bitchy kind of way because we didn't want to be
expelled from the roost."
"I knew a lot more than I should have known. ... Chuck Berry
[Lasater's enforcer/driver who was later killed himself] told me
that I was one of Dan Lasater's most trusted people and knew a
lot about cocaine and his personal life. If I ever betrayed his
personal trust and hurt Lasater in any way I would not 'see
daylight' to tell about it anymore."
Patti-Anne told Evans-Pritchard that Bill as well as Roger
Clinton was a part of the Little Rock drug scene.
"I met Bill Clinton several times, he'd know my name and I
thought he was a wonderful person. But I can tell you that he was
never acting like a governor when I saw him."
The former Lasater good-time girl says she was present for one
late-night meeting between her boss and then-Governor Clinton.
"He was doing a line," Patti-Anne said of the future president.
"It was just there on the table."
Whether the current Pardongate investigation will probe deep
enough to warrant revisiting any of this is anybody's guess.
But if the feds are looking for clues as to why Dan Lasater's
name turned up on Roger Clinton's pardon list, they might start
by asking Patti-Anne Smith.
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