Pardon Scandal Still Looms for Sen. Clinton's Brother

[RamboLiberal]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/01/pardon_scandal_.html

A court-appointed bankruptcy trustee asked a federal judge this week to schedule a new court date in a case against Tony Rodham, the brother of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., accused of failing to repay $109,000 in loans from a carnival company whose owners received controversial pardons issued by President Bill Clinton in the last hours of his presidency.

According to documents filed in the case, Rodham received the loans, before and after the pardons were granted, from United Shows of America, Inc., owned by Edgar Gregory and his wife, who had been convicted of defrauding several banks.

A congressional report by the Republican-controlled House Reform Committee concluded Rodham "had tried to sell his access to the White House" and that "but for Tony Rodham's lobbying efforts, the Gregory pardons would not have been granted."

With the company now in bankruptcy and Gregory dead, the court-appointed federal trustee for United Shows, Michael Collins, has spent two years trying to get Rodham to repay the outstanding loans.

Collins first had Rodham's accounts frozen in 2005 after Rodham failed to respond to an initial complaint filed by Collins.

But almost diddly came up about Neil Bush when Dubya ran - g'rrrrrr.

[baldguy]

1. And this is a news item because....?

[RamboLiberal]

2. Because it is sure to come up in the campaign

Same pundits who never brought up Neil Bush will be sure to paint Hilary and Bill with this. And I'm sorry, but I was not amused by the Mark Rich or this pardon by Clinton - it stinks!

[blm]

5. Mark Rich was up to his eyeballs in IranContra dealings, too. Scooter Libby applied

for Mark Rich's pardon.

Just another amazing coincidence reBush/Clinton, eh?

[tkmorris]

4. It's rotten when they do it

And it's rotten when we do it.

Sorry friend but this is news. I hate corruption no matter who is connected to it. Don't you?

[gratuitous]

3. Gee, they're real bulldogs about this, aren't they?

But nary a peep about Poppy's Christmas Eve pardons granted in the dead of night in 1992 after he'd lost his election and the trial of Caspar Weinberger was about to start at long last. A trial that would put the lie to Poppy's assertion that he was "out of the loop" on Iran/contra.

And there's a total lack of media curiosity about some of the other pardonees, like Eliot Abrams, who is back in government under Little Lord Pissypants.