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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (3569)	6/16/2001 10:06:09 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 93284

Did someone mention those Bush kids? Roger Clinton: Following the Money The former president’s brother is entangled in another pardon scandal By Mark Hosenball NEWSWEEK June 16 — Government investigators trying to untangle the Clinton pardons scandal are taking a hard look at the former president’s half brother, Roger Clinton. Federal prosecutors want to know if he was involved in alleged schemes that promised the possibility of pardons and other favors in exchange for cash fees. INVESTIGATORS ARE ESPECIALLY interested in Clinton’s alleged dealings with Garland Lincecum, a Texan convicted of investment fraud in 1998. Lincecum’s lawyer, Ed Hayes, told Newsweek his client was looking for a way to avoid prison when a friend, Richard Cayce, suggested he enlist Roger Clinton’s help. Investigators say Cayce, an alternative medicines salesman, claims Clinton was going to help him secure diplomatic passports—which he hoped would impress foreigners. Cayce also says Clinton and two associates, George Locke and Dickey Morton, agreed to get the passports for a fee of $100,000. According to Cayce’s lawyer, Cayce turned over $30,000 cash and wired $70,000 to a company called CLM—which they told him consisted of Clinton, Locke and Morton. Cayce says he made the cash payment at an August 1998 meeting with the partners at a Dallas airport hotel. Later that day, Cayce says, he introduced Lincecum to Locke and Morton. According to Lincecum’s lawyer, they told Lincecum that Roger would lobby Bill Clinton for a pardon in exchange for $300,000. Roger was not at the meeting, but Lincecum told investigators that at one point Cayce pointed to a man on a balcony and hinted that it was Roger. Lincecum’s lawyer says his client’s family turned over $235,000 to CLM, including two checks for $100,000 each. Financial records obtained by Newsweek show that days after those payments, Roger Clinton in turn deposited checks from CLM worth $25,500 in his own bank accounts. Government sources with access to CLM’s books say they believe the checks to Clinton were likely drawn from the money the Lincecums gave CLM. In the end, Cayce never got diplomatic passports. And Lincecum was never pardoned—his name was not even on a list of six names Roger gave the president for consideration. Locke and Morton’s lawyer says his clients have taken the Fifth with the Feds and declined comment. Roger Clinton’s lawyer, Bart Williams, says Roger met with Cayce twice. But Roger denies ever meeting Lincecum or seeking or receiving money for passports or pardons. Clinton’s lawyer says checks he got from CLM were from unrelated deals, but denies Roger was part of the company. That may not be enough for prosecutors. Earlier this month, they brought Lincecum from his Texas prison cell to New York, where he told his tale to a federal grand jury. © 2001 Newsweek, Inc. msnbc.com