-Caveat Lector-
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Sunday, Feb. 25, 2001 11:54 p.m. EST
Roger Clinton Refused to Deny Vignali Payoff
In his only interview since he came under suspicion in the
Pardongate scandal, former first half-brother Roger Clinton
denied that he accepted money for trying to arrange pardons for
his friends - but pointedly refused to discuss his role in any of
the 36 commutation requests granted by his brother Bill Clinton.
The omission takes on new significance with a Time magazine
report, due to hit newsstands Monday, which cites sources who say
Roger was paid off for helping to commute a jail sentence for
California drug dealer Carlos Vignali, who was convicted in 1994
of conspiring to sell 800 pounds of cocaine.
On Friday, Roger Clinton told the Los Angeles Times that he
intervened with his brother on pardons for six of his friends but
explicitly denied taking money for the effort:
"I didn't get any money for any kind of pardons," Roger said.
"Not only did I not get any money, but none of them got pardons."
But, noted the Times, "He declined to identify his friends, or to
say whether he had been involved with any clemencies that were
granted."
Forty-eight hours later, Time magazine reports:
"Two sources tell TIME that Horacio Vignali told associates he
paid Roger $30,000 to work on the commutation of his son's
sentence. A spokesman for Roger Clinton said he claims never to
have accepted money from Vignali; an attorney for Vignali had no
comment."
Could Roger Clinton's spokesman be misinformed, just as Denise
Rich's was when he intially denied that she had asked the
president to pardon her husband?
Roger "The Dodger" Clinton avoided the subject of commutations
with the L.A. Times for some reason.
Perhaps that reason is spelled Vignali.
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