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Legal Expert: Roger Clinton Not Far From Indictment
After eight years of Clinton-era perjury,
obstruction of justice and unprecendented
levels of White House sleaze, prosecutors may
finally be on the verge of indicting a member
of the former first family, according to a
prominent Washington, D.C. law professor.
"It's the consistency of these (witness)
accounts that raises the real possibility that
he could be indicted," said George Washington
University law professor Jonathan Turley on
Friday, describing the evidence against Roger
Clinton on Fox News Channel's "The Edge with
Paula Zahn."
"The standard for probable cause is not
overwhelming. And when you have a number of
people who are willing to testify that they
were told to give this money for Roger Clinton
to secure pardons, I'm saying that as a legal
matter he is not far from that probable cause
standard."
Turley cited bank records showing that Clinton
shook down a reputed member of the Gambino
crime family for $50,000 and another witness
who says Roger was present in a hotel room when
he turned over $30,000 on the promise that
Roger could obtain two diplomatic passports.
Other evidence against the former first brother
includes $235,000 in cancelled checks made out
to Roger's business account by Guy and Alberta
Lincecum of Roanoke, Texas, who say they paid
the money because they were promised Guy's
imprisoned brother Garland would be pardoned.
In addition, bank records obtained by House
investigators, which are also in the hands of
the U.S. Attorney in New York, reveal an
unexplained $250,000 in traveler's checks
deposited into Clinton's personal bank account
around the same time the Texas family says they
wiped out their life savings to pay Roger for
the pardon.
Last year prosecutors declined to indict Bill
and Hillary Clinton despite overwhelming
evidence of perjury by Mr. Clinton in the
Monica Lewinsky investigation and by Mrs.
Clinton in Travelgate. Privately legal insiders
admit the decision not to prosecute was based
on a reluctance to indict a sitting president
and his wife.
But with the Clintons out of the White House,
the former first brother is not expected to be
treated with such prosecutorial deference. And
as the evidence mounts, prosecutors in New York
may have no choice but to indict the Clinton
brother, despite a widespread reluctance within
the Bush Justice Department to revisit
Clinton-era corruption.
newsmax.com
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