AlGore the Junior, noted slumlord and illegal fundraiser:
Fund-Raising Probe Sparks Debate
By Pete Yost
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, June 6, 2000; 3:54 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON ?? In a memo kept secret for 2« years, FBI Director Louis Freeh warned that the Justice Department was ignoring "reliable evidence" that conflicted with Al Gore's accounts of his fund-raising activities.
Freeh sent the November 1997 memo, written by staff at his request, to Attorney General Janet Reno to urge appointment of an independent counsel to investigate Democratic fund raising.
"In the face of compelling evidence that the vice president was a very active, sophisticated fund-raiser who knew exactly what he was doing, his own exculpatory statements must not be given undue weight," the Freeh memo said.
It preceded a better-known, and more scrutinized, memo by the chief prosecutor in the case, Charles LaBella, who urged the same action and also accused his Justice Department superiors of contorting their investigation to avoid triggering an independent counsel...
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