Downside Legacy on Drugs and Clinton, Up Close & Personal
Crime/Corruption Extended News News
Source: Various FR Posters
Published: 10/18/99 Author: Various FR Posters
Posted on 10/18/1999 19:13:34 PDT by Alamo-Girl
DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
SECTION: THE STORY OF A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
SUBSECTION: DRUGS AND CLINTON
Revised 10/18/99
DRUGS
Roger Clinton, Clinton's half-brother, a convicted cocaine dealer, is caught on tape saying, "Gotta get some for my brother. He has a nose like a vacuum cleaner."
Retired FBI agent Gary Aldrich writes of drugs and the White House and appointees.
Sharlene Wilson talks at length about Clinton's cocaine use, suffers extreme sentence
Clinton's insistence that drug use was not bar for security clearance to work in White House
. Clinton refuses to release any medical records, despite every other presidential candidate in history having done so.
Clinton's admission of drug use though "didn't inhale."
Clinton's utensils picked-up when at a restaurant in England
White House appointee, Patsy Thomasson power of attorney to run Dan Lassater's operation while he was in prison for cocaine distribution
Murder of Jerry Parks and theft of his records about cocaine and sex.
Arkansas Development Finance Authority
Jocelyn Elders
SHARLINE WILSON:" I lived in Little Rock, Arkansas, O.K.? And I worked at a club called Le Bistro's, and I met Roger Clinton there, Governor Bill Clinton, a couple of his state troopers that went with him wherever he went. Roger Clinton had come up to me and he had asked me could I give him some coke, you know, and asked for my one-hitter, which a one-hitter is a very small silver device, O.K., that you stick up into your nose and you just squeeze it and a snort of cocaine will go up in there. And I watched Roger hand what I had given him to Governor Clinton, and he just kinf of turned around and walked off."
Fiske (former attorney for BCCI and Clifford former head of BCCI and former Defense Secretary) appointed as first Whitewater IC. Bill Clinton "The investigation of Whitewater is being handled by an in dependent special counsel, whose appointment I supported. Our cooperation with that counsel has been total."
10/30/96 Investors Business Daily editorial "..A lot of testimony has bubbled up. But is it credible? Sally Perdue, a former Miss Arkansas and Little Rock talk show host who said she had an affair with then-Gov. Clinton in 1983, told the London Sunday Telegraph that he once came over to her house with a bag full of cocaine. ''He had all the equipment laid out, like a real pro.'' Gennifer Flowers says she saw Clinton smoke marijuana and carry joints with him when he first began visiting her in 1977. Clinton was Arkansas' attorney general from 1977 through 1979. His first term as governor ran from 1979 through 1981. He was governor again from 1983 through 1992. Two Arkansas state troopers have sworn under oath that they have seen Clinton ''under the influence'' of drugs when he was governor. Sharlene Wilson is a bartender who is serving time on drug crimes and has cooperated with drug investigators. She told a federal grand jury she saw Clinton and his younger brother ''snort'' cocaine together in 1979. Jack McCoy, a Democratic state representative and Clinton supporter, told the Sunday Telegraph that he could ''remember going into the governor's conference room once and it reeked of marijuana.'' Historian Roger Morris, in his book ''Partners in Power,'' quotes several law enforcement officials who say they had seen and knew of Clinton's drug use. On a videotape made in 1983-84 by local narcotics officers, Roger Clinton said during a cocaine buy: ''Got to get some for my brother. He's got a nose like a vacuum cleaner.'' One-time apartment manager Jane Parks claims that in 1984 she could listen through the wall as Bill and Roger Clinton, in a room adjoining hers, discussed the quality of the drugs they were taking. R. Emmett Tyrrell, editor of American Spectator magazine, has tried to track down rumors that Clinton suffered an overdose at one point. The incident supposedly occurred after the young politician lost the governorship in 1980 and fell into an emotional tailspin. Tyrrell asked emergency room workers at the University of Arkansas Medical Center if they could confirm the incident. He didn't get a flat ''no'' from the hospital staff. One nurse said, ''I can't talk about that.'' Another said she feared for her life if she spoke of the matter. The president himself has helped fuel suspicions of an overdose or some other drug problem by refusing to make his full medical records public..These mealy-mouthed explanations and non-denial denials are mirrored in White House policies that were negligent or worse. The Secret Service reports that more than 40 staffers brought in by Clinton had such serious (and recent) drug problems that they had to enter a special testing program for security reasons.."
7/18/96 AP "Some of the Clinton White House employees who were placed in a special drug testing program had used cocaine and hallucinogens and were originally denied White House security passes, Secret Service agents testified Wednesday. The testing program was created as a compromise so the new administration's workers could keep their jobs, according to Arnold Cole, who supervised the Secret Service's White House operations. "Initially, our response was that we denied them passes," Cole background said in a deposition released by the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee..But he was briefly questioned about the drug issue, which came to light earlier this week, saying that despite his agency's original concerns about the workers, "at one point they did receive a pass." Asked who ultimately determined whether workers who had recently used drugs would be suitable, he answered: The issue "would be resolved at the highest levels" of the White House. Another agent's deposition revealed the background checks turned up use of hard drugs. "I have seen cocaine usage. I have seen hallucinogenic usages, crack usages," said Jeffrey Undercoffer, when asked to describe the types of drugs used by employees who were placed in the special programs. The Associated Press reported Monday that 21 Clinton White House workers had been placed in the special testing after their background checks indicated recent drug abuse."
Freeper Wright is right! 7/23/98 ".I DID receive an indication this morning from another source which quotes an MD as saying that the *problem* Clinton has is continuing.It'll come out in the end. DC sources late last night who have seen hard evidence call the situation *explosive*. "
Conspiracy Nation Vol 9 Num 06 ".To those who have read about Clinton's early days, it is clear that he grew up in a dysfunctional environment and that later he connected, at least tangentially, with the cocaine sub-culture. According to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, writing in the London Sunday Telegraph ("Clinton 'took cocaine while in office,'" July 17, 1994), Bill Clinton may have "engaged in regular use of cocaine and marijuana during his rise to political prominence in Arkansas." Evans-Pritchard bases his story, in part, on the testimony of Sally Perdue, who claims to have had an affair with the then-Governor. Clinton, on one occasion, is said to have had a bag of cocaine from which he prepared a "line" on Perdue's living room table. Says Perdue: "He had all the equipment laid out, like a real pro." .This editor has had the pleasure of innumerable conversations with Sherman Skolnick. While some may question how discerning Mr. Skolnick is regarding what his various informants tell him, I myself know that he has highly-placed sources with whom he is in regular contact. Some of these sources are in the White House. The allegations of a specific "five lines a day" Clinton cocaine habit were first conveyed to me by Sherman Skolnick earlier this summer.."
7/23/98 Freeper Doug from Upland George Putnam Show "Remember the guy who didn't inhale? Remember the guy who says he never violated American drug laws? Remember the guy who tried it once but didn't like it? Remember the guy who told that an MTV audience that if he had it to do over again he would inhale? Remember the guy who told a NEW YORK TIMES reporter a week before the 1996 election that he has never used mind-altering drugs? Yes, we remember him. That is the same man who has had to GO TO REHAB THREE TIMES FOR HIS COCAINE PROBLEM! . On the George Putnam show today, Larry Nichols chronicled a meeting he was at with Bill Clinton and Witt Stephens, brother of Jack Stephens. Larry says that Witt told Clinton that they would give him 100K in support for another run for the governorship (after he was defeated)but he had to "dry out on the white stuff." Betsey Wright has admitted to Nichols that on two other occasions Bill had to go to rehab for cocaine. In discussing this with Nichols in the past, he has told me that he has been unsuccessful in locating the place where Clinton was treated. He believed it was somewhere in Minnesota. .."
7/23/98 Jon Dougherty USA Journal Onling "Information passed to a talk radio program by a reporter for the USA Radio Network late Wednesday night indicated that Secret Service agents testifying in a Grand Jury hearing separate from the Lewinsky hearings have alleged drug use within the White House. According to USA Radio correspondent Jack Christy, the "bombshell" report was based on other information Christy and others had been gathering on the issue to the agents' testimony yesterday. "We are hearing allegations that what the Secret Service is testifying about is drug use within the White House," Christy said during a phone call to the George Putnam Show on KIEV-AM in Seattle.Christy also said that the Secret Service agents which have been compelled to testify before Ken Starr's grand jury "are decent, honorable people, but they witnessed the president in a compromised position." That, he said, put them in a very delicate situation. Christy suggested that Starr's final report to Congress regarding his four-year investigation will be "all inclusive," and that there may be nothing left for legislators to do "except impeach the guy, unless he resigns for medical reasons beforehand.""
10/31/96 Orange County Register. Letters To The Editor. "After reading the letter to the president written by Eldon Griffiths in the Register on Oct.17, I felt compelled to write a letter expressing my views on Bill Clinton. I retired from the United States Secret Service as the agent in charge of protection for the Los Angeles area immediately after Clinton was elected president in 1992. The primary reason I retired was because I had become disenchanted with the egotistical arrogance of the Clinton staff and because I saw character flaws in Clinton that I had not seen in the five past presidents I had protected since 1970. His attention to image and style but lack of substance and character was evident in private. He was the ultimate con man.The accumulation of files on the American people and allowing "dopers" to work as White House staff so offend me that I can no longer remain silent. I just wish the American people felt values, substance, and character were important. Ron Williams Huntington Beach "
Now, with the rumor that the Lewinsky matter will only be about 4% of Starr's report and the knowledge that 300 pages of the report have already been written, what kind of information regarding obstruction, witness tampering, abuse of power will be put forward? And will this story, seemingly ignored by the mass media and not followed up by the Post, and up being the nail in the coffin? The New York Post 6/9/98 John Crudele "A KEY figure in the Arkansas financial community could turn out to be Kenneth Starr's secret weapon in the investigation of President Clinton. Sources say William McCord, who took over as head of Lasater & Co. after Clinton friend Dan Lasater went to jail for drug distribution, signed a plea agreement in May 1995 after being accused of financing a massive gambling operation.McCord's closeness to Lasater could fill in a lot of blanks for Starr. And McCord apparently has been very willing to talk. In fact, he was so helpful to Starr and other probers that the government asked an Arkansas court to reduce his sentence.There is no indication in the plea-bargain - a copy of which was recently found unsealed in an Arkansas courthouse - as to what specific information McCord has provided. From his background, he could be very helpful to Starr in the racketeering case he is fashioning against the president. Starr's team of FBI investigators and prosecutors has been putting together a case alleging Clinton used financial institutions in Arkansas for his own benefit in a pattern of organized corruption.Lasater's firm sold bonds for the state when it needed to raise money for such projects. McCord purchased Lasater's company soon after Lasater pleaded guilty in 1986 to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. He served six months of a 30-month prison sentence before being pardoned by then-Gov. Clinton. When McCord got into trouble with regulators in 1988, Lasater financed the sale of the company, which McCord had renamed United Capital Corp., to a concern that later became a partner of Lasater's. .If all McCord did was give Starr information about how money was being diverted in Arkansas, that would be a lot of trouble for the president. But if McCord is able to connect Clinton in any way with Lasater's drug dealings, the testimony would be devastating."
Washington Weekly 4/1/96 "On the weekend of September 21, 1991, Arkansas State Police Investigator Russell Welch met with IRS Investigator Bill Duncan to write a report on their investigation of Mena drug smuggling and money laundering and send it to Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh.. Returning to Mena on Sunday, Welch told his wife that he didn't feel too well. He thought he had gotten the flu..In Fort Smith a team of doctors were waiting. Dr. Calleton had called them twice while Welch was in transport and they had been in contact with the CDC. Later the doctor would tell Welch's wife that he was on the edge of death. He would not have made it through the night had he not been in the hospital. He was having fever seizures by now. A couple of days after Welch had been admitted to St. Edwards Mercy Hospital, his doctor was wheeling him to one of the labs for testing when she asked him if he was doing anything at work that was particularly dangerous. He told her that he had been a cop for about 15 years and that danger was probably inherent with the job description. She told Welch that they believed he had anthrax. She said the anthrax was the military kind that is used as an agent of biological warfare and that it was induced. Somebody had deliberately infected him. She added that they had many more tests to run but they had already started treating him for anthrax..Even though Welch and Duncan sent boxes of evidence to Lawrence Walsh in Washington, Walsh never showed any interest in Mena at all."
Wall Street Journal Micah Morrison 4/18/96 ".Linda Ives appears to be a simple housewife-- born in 1949, graduated from Little Rock's McClellan High School, and married to Larry Ives, an engineer on the Union Pacific railroad. But her tale is one of the most Byzantine in all Arkansas, involving the murder of her son and his friend, allegations of air-dropped drugs connected to the Mena, Ark. airport, a series of aborted investigations and, she believes, cover-ups by local, state, and federal investigators. The case started nine years ago, when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas. Today, with Mr. Clinton in the White House, it is still rattling through the state, with one of the principal figures making bizarre headlines in the local press as recently as the last few weeks. Above all, the "train deaths" case opens a window into the seamy world of Arkansas drugs. The bare facts of the case are these: At 4:25 a.m. on Aug.23, 1987, a northbound Union Pacific train ran over two teenagers, Kevin Ives and Don Henry, as they lay side by side, motionless on the tracks. Arkansas State Medical Examiner Fahmy Malak quickly ruled the deaths "accidental," saying the boys were "unconscious and in deep sleep" due to smoking marijuana. "We didn't know anything about marijuana at the time," Mrs. Ives says. But when medical experts found the explanation implausible, "we really began asking questions." The families held a press conference challenging the ruling, which received wide publicity in Arkansas. This in turn provoked an investigation by a local grand jury in Saline County, a largely rural area between Little Rock and Hot Springs. Ultimately the bodies were exhumed and another autopsy was performed by outside pathologists. They found that Don Henry had been stabbed in the back, and that Kevin Ives had been beaten with a rifle butt. In grand jury testimony, lead pathologist Joseph Burton of Atlanta said the boys "were either incapacitated, knocked unconscious, possibly even killed, their bodies placed on the tracks and the train overran their bodies." In September 1988, the grand jury issued a report stating, "Our conclusions are that the case is definitely a homicide.". The results of any continuing federal investigation touching on the Ives and Henry deaths will be presented to Mr. Bank's successor as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District. So Linda Ives' crusade will end up in the hands of Ms. Casey, the longtime Clinton ally and campaign worker who recused herself from Whitewater cases only after making several crucial decisions. President Clinton appointed her U.S. attorney in Little Rock in August 1993, shortly after his unprecedented demand for the immediate resignation of all sitting U.S. attorneys. Mrs. Ives says she is not optimistic about Ms. Casey. "But then," she adds, "it's not like I'm going to go away, either."
Wall Street Journal 4/18/96 ".Bill Clinton's gubernatorial administration assumed a role in the Ives and Henry case shortly after Dr. Malak's marijuana-induced accidental death ruling. Dr. Malak, an Egyptian-born physician appointed medical examiner during Mr. Clinton's first term, already had been buffeted by a number of controversial cases..But when the Saline County grand jury probing the case attempted to subpoena the outside pathologists, Gov. Clinton balked. Betsy Wright, his chief of staff, submitted an affidavit saying she did not "know when the two pathologists will return to Little Rock" ..Two months later, Gov. Clinton revived a long dormant state Medical Examiner Commission to handle the Malak controversy. The panel was headed up by the director of the Arkansas Department of Health, Joycelyn Elders. In January 1989, the Medical Examiner Commission ruled on the Malak case. There was "insufficient evidence at this time for dismissal" of Dr. Malak, Dr. Elders announced. Nine months later, Gov. Clinton introduced a bill to make the state more competitive in hiring forensic pathologists--by giving Dr. Malak a $32,000 pay raise; the state Legislature later cut the raise by half. Ms. Wright says the salary was raised in anticipation of removing Dr. Malak and attracting a new medical examiner. Dr. Malak was eased out of his job and given a position as a Health Department consultant to Dr. Elders a month before Gov. Clinton announced his presidential run.."
World Net Daily 9/22/98 David Bresnahan "As heads are still spinning over sex, perjury, abuse of power and security scandals in the White House, trained dogs brought in by the Secret Service detected drug use in and around the Oval Office, sources tell WorldNetDaily. While Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr is said to be aware of the drug problems in the White House, no mention of such problems were in his report to Congress. But reports indicate as many as 25 percent of the White House staff have a history of illegal drug use, say the sources.. Several sources have reported independently of each other that Monica Lewinsky's dress not only had evidence of a sexual encounter with Bill Clinton, but also traces of cocaine. "There was a significant amount of cocaine residue," said one source close to the FBI. Another source with ties to the White House Secret Service confirmed the allegations and was astonished the Starr report does not mention more about the dress. "The dress is not the only evidence Starr has regarding drugs in the Oval Office," said the source.
London Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 9/24/98 "IN THE interests of a drug-free world it is perhaps time for Britain and other Western democracies to consider banning President Clinton from visiting their countries. After all, President Ernesto Samper of Colombia is now a pariah because of allegations that he once accepted campaign funding from the drug cartels - and it is hard to make the case that the hapless Samper did anything the current incumbent of the White House has not done himself. The allegations that Clinton dipped into the drug trough while Governor of his own narco-banana-state in Arkansas are equally persuasive.."
White House Press Briefing 10/6/98 Joe Lockhart ".MR. LOCKHART: I don't. I can look into that. I really have no knowledge of how the background investigations on Cabinet members -- I'm very familiar with White House staff, who are all subject to an incoming drug test and then random tests. Q Is the President tested for drugs? MR. LOCKHART: No. Q He's not? MR. LOCKHART: No, not that I'm aware of. Q Why not? (Laughter.) I mean, he's the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, shouldn't he be tested for drugs if the Armed Forces are tested? PJ, what about that? (Laughter.) MR. LOCKHART: Next? (Laughter.).Q Joe, getting back to this drug situation, why doesn't the President want to be tested as a good example? I mean, Ronald Reagan certainly volunteered. MR. LOCKHART: I'm just not aware of that or -- Q The whole White House staff, you say, is tested for drugs -- MR. LOCKHART: Right. Q -- but not the President. I'm astounded. Doesn't he want to be? MR. LOCKHART: Well, I have had no discussion with him, nor do I think it's a problem."
White House Briefing 10/9/98 Freeper report ".Q: Joe, does the White House believe that it would be a seperation of powers were Congress--which the Constitution, as you know,, says shall set the rules for land and sea forces--if they were to pass a bill requiring that the Commander-in-Chief of these forces be drug tested like all of these forces and what you revealed as required of everybody at the White House except the President? Mr. Lockhart: Thats an interesting constitutional issue, and let me consult with constitutional experts, and I'll come back to you. Q: What you did on the platform there. There have been two columns written--one of them in the New York Post--that deal with the President's firing of the White House doctor and a number of other drugs and the President questions. And my question- Mr. Lockhart: Excuse me, what White House doctor? Q: The first one, when he came here--I believe it's Bell or-- he was fired because he wouldn't inject something that they didn't tell him what it was. (laughter) Why wouldn't the President, given all of this problem, wouldn't he be willing to get this behind us by voluntarily being tested for drugs, as President Reagan did? Mr. Lockhart: Again, let me look at the first question and I'll come back to you. Q: When will you come back? Mr. Lockhart: Maybe next week, maybe never. (laughter) next please...(laughter)."
The New York Times 10/11/98 James Bennet " The investigations into officials of the Clinton Administration continued to yield startling tidbits. Two black members of President Clinton's cabinet said they had to submit urine samples, apparently for drug testing, while two white cabinet secretaries said they did not, according to testimony by Carol E. Browner, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Ms. Browner described the conversation while testifying in the trial of Mike Espy, the former Agriculture Secretary, who had to submit a sample. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown also gave one. Joe Lockhart, the new White House press secretary, said drug-testing policy varied by agency. White House staff members are tested, he said, but the President is not.."
10/20/98 from Freeper quidam ".Dr. James Y. Suen, (Ethnic Chinese believed first generation) Chairman of the department of Otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat disorders) atGeorge Washington University. His office number in Little Rock (501) 686-xxxx.(I have the real number)He also is a practicing at the University Of Arkansas "University Hospital"where WJC was reportedly treated for cocaine abuse (accounts vary one to twooccasions) while he was Governor. Dr. Suen is suspected of being the attendingphysician.He is recognized as an authority of on Cancer of the Ear Nose and Throat and haspublished.He has performed several operations on the President, on his throat, ears andnose. This is relatively typical for someone that has had extensive nasal traumadue to cocaine abuse. He has reportedly lost hearing due to an opportunisticinfection in both ears after having had a "throat" operation in Dec of 96. The infection lingered and (repeatedly returned) and damaged the hearing in bothears. This led to WJC having to have hearing aides installed in both ears in Octof 97. Wife is named Karen, (also Chinese) they have both been able to stay in theLincoln bedroom--- quidam."
12/15/98 John Crudele and Tom Golden ".Linda Tripp had another story for Ken Starr that'll probably came out in her still-secret grand jury testimony. She told the Independent Counsel about drug use in the White House. Here's what we know that hasn't come out publicly yet. When Tripp first surfaced with her gossip from inside the White House, she was telling a story about drugs around the Oval Office. Nothing specific. Nothing about Clinton himself. Just stories that drugs were available in close proximity to where the President worked. Remember, as a White House worker, Tripp was in a position to see and hear things. She was, for instance, questioned extensively before Congress about the circumstances surrounding Vince Foster's death and about a note that was found in his briefcase. Tripp's story about drugs had nothing to do with Monica Lewinsky.. At one point an Arkansas investigator with a connection to Starr sent a handwritten note to someone in the Little Rock office of the Independent Counsel that read: ``The name is Linda Tripp, not ....! Remember, drug use in the White House. Please make sure this gets to the right person!`` The note was signed with the first name of the investigator and was addressed to a secretary in that office..The note was not dated and the investigator is still unsure of when it was sent, although it probably was in mid-1996. I have a copy of it. ..Starr's office was even given a second heads-up on the drug accussations. After Tripp's name popped up in the Lewinsky matter earlier this year, the investigator says he reminded Starr's office about his earlier note. ``The first time, I called them to make sure they had the name right,`` says the investigator. ``Then I sent a note just to make sure they had the spelling and everything correct.'' he recalls. ``You assume the information is in good hands. But I called them again just to make sure it didn't slip through the cracks.'' Starr's office won't comment. But in the past, both this investigator and I have discussed aspects of the investigation as it relates to drugs with sources close to the Independent Counsel..The last time was when a source of mine said ``I wouldn't say we were investigating drugs.`` He put a strange emphasis on the word ``investigating,'' which could have meant that there never was an investigation, that he didn't like use of that word, or that it already had been concluded. He didn't elaborate..."
WorldNet Daily 2/25/99 Joseph Farah "…One of the secrets of the Clinton administration's success at staying in power has been to plot such dastardly deeds that few Americans could even grasp their evil intent. Right at the top of the list of such conspiracies -- now well documented, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of WorldNetDaily columnist Charles Smith -- is the Clipper Chip project. It involves all of the following: a treasonous relationship with China, a plan to tap every phone in America, drug money and, of course, the usual intrigue of administration figures such as Webster Hubbell, Al Gore, Ron Brown, Janet Reno and Clinton himself…The story starts in 1992 when AT&T developed secure telephones untappable by the federal government. The company planned to make them available to the American public. Instead, the Clinton administration interceded and bought up all the phones with a secret slush fund…. By 1994, White House aide John Podesta had been called into the inner circle of the Clipper project. Meanwhile, Podesta's brother, Tony, a lobbyist and fund-raiser was representing AT&T. His donors and clients, including AT&T, were invited to participate in trade trips to China and obtain valuable export deals with Beijing…By 1996, Reno was urging the all-out federal takeover of the computer industry and the banning of any encryption technology that doesn't let the government in the back door. Interestingly, the first target of the government's wiretap plan was its own Drug Enforcement Administration. Hmmm. The Chinese sought information obtained from such taps -- which may explain why Chinese drug lord Ng Lapseng gave as much money to the Democratic National Committee as he did. It's no wonder Reno didn't want to investigate the penetration of the DEA by the Chinese. After all, Ng was photographed with her bosses, Bill and Hillary Clinton at a DNC fund-raiser…."
Wall Street Journal 3/3/99 Micah Morrison "…Since drug smuggling at Mena is established beyond doubt, a brief review of some facts seems in order: Mena was a staging ground for Barry Seal, one of the most notorious drug smugglers in history. He established a base at Mena in 1981, and according to Arkansas law-enforcement officials, imported as much as 1,000 pounds of cocaine a month from Colombia. In 1984 he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration, flying to Colombia and gathering information about leaders of the Medellín cartel. He testified in several high-profile cases, and was assassinated in Baton Rouge, La., in 1986. Two investigators probing events at Mena say they were closed down--William Duncan, a former Internal Revenue Service investigator, and Russell Welch, a former Arkansas State Police detective. They fought a decade-long battle to bring events at Mena to light, pinning their hopes on nine separate state and federal probes. All failed. And Messrs. Welch and Duncan were stripped of their careers. In 1986, Dan Lasater, Little Rock bond daddy and an important Clinton campaign contributor, pleaded guilty to cocaine distribution. The scheme also involved Mr. Clinton's brother, Roger. Both Mr. Lasater and Roger Clinton served brief prison terms. Gov. Clinton later issued a pardon to Mr. Lasater. On Aug. 23, 1987, teenagers Kevin Ives and Don Henry were run over by a northbound Union Pacific train near Little Rock in an area reputed to be a haven for drug smugglers…. In 1990 Jean Duffey, the head of a newly created drug task force, began investigating a possible link between the train deaths and drugs. Her boss, the departing prosecuting attorney for Arkansas's Seventh Judicial District, gave her a direct order: "You are not to use the drug task force to investigate public officials." In a 1996 interview with the Journal, Ms. Duffey said: "We had witnesses telling us about low-flying aircraft and informants testifying about drug pick-ups." Dan Harmon, who had earlier been appointed special prosecutor for the train deaths, took office in 1991 as seventh district prosecutor. Ms. Duffey was discredited, threatened, and ultimately forced to flee Arkansas. In 1997, a federal jury in Little Rock found Mr. Harmon guilty of five counts of drug dealing and extortion, and sentenced him to eight years in prison for using his office to extort narcotics and cash…"
News Dispatches 3/3/99 Rodger Schultz "…But there Palladino was, scoping out Leach's Northwest Washington premises one evening as the congressman arrived home in 1994. Palladino, a San Francisco private detective who had been paid more than $100,000 by the Clinton campaign in 1992 to deal with what Clinton intimate Betsey Wright called "bimbo eruptions," quickly scurried away, and Leach never went public with what he saw. But the House Banking Committee chairman privately told colleagues the intended message was clear: You mess with us, we'll mess with you…."
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