To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (37547 ) 3/10/1999 5:15:00 AM From: JBL Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 67261
Why are you so keen on taking Monica's place ? Eric Wynn •Eric Wynn, a twice-convicted securities promoter who pleaded guilty to stock manipulation that benefited a member of the Bonanno organized crime family and who served two years in prison for theft and tax charges, attended a December 1995 White House coffee with Clinton. He also attended a DNC fund-raiser on March 9, 1996 at which witnesses said Wynn, who was trying to win a pardon, spoke with Clinton in the presence of his attorney, Richard T. Mays, who is a longtime friend of the president's. Wynn was invited by the DNC upon recommendation of Richard Mays, a lawyer Clinton had appointed to the Arkansas Supreme Court. In 1996, Wynn attended four other DNC fund-raising events involving Clinton. Wynn had been arrested five times from August 1996 until February 1997 while out on bail for aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, aggravated assault with a motor vehicle, violation of a restraining order, terroristic threats and driving while intoxicated. At least one of the arrests occurred between DNC fund-raisers Wynn attended in 1996 with Clinton. (sources: The Detroit News, 2/16/97; The Washington Post, 2/20/97; The [New Jersey] Star-Ledger, 2/20/97) •Then-White House Special Counsel Lanny Davis conceded that it "was not appropriate" for the president to sip coffee with Eric Wynn just a few months after his second conviction for penny-stock fraud. Wynn was fined $50,000 and sentenced to more than four years in prison, but was free on appeal at the time of his Dec. 21, 1995 coffee. On Feb. 25, 1997, a federal judge revoked the convicted stock manipulator's $100,000 bail. (sources: Los Angeles Times, 2/24/97; Richmond Times-Dispatch, 2/26/97)