Clinton Corruption and ``Get `Em`` Geffen

Other news on the Clintons; here lies the roots of the dustup between Hillary and David Geffen:


Flashback: Bill Clinton Freed Cocaine Kingpin

After movie mogul David Geffen recently attacked former friends Bill and Hillary Clinton, NewsMax.com reported that the bad blood dated back to President Clinton’s pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich in his last days in office.

Geffen was angry that Clinton at the same time rebuffed his request for a pardon for Leonard Peltier, an American Indian activist Geffen believes was falsely convicted of two 1975 murders.

NewsMax detailed several other controversial pardons among the 140 Clinton issued in his final days. But the outgoing president also created controversy by commuting the sentences of several convicted felons.

Among them was Carlos Vignali, who was serving the 6th year of a 15-year sentence for organized cocaine trafficking.

Vignali’s father, Horacio Carlos Vignali, was a major political contributor to Democratic causes.

What’s more, Clinton’s brother-in-law, attorney Hugh Rodham, received nearly $400,000 for successfully lobbying for Vignali’s commutation and for the pardon of Almon Glenn Braswell, who was convicted of mail fraud and perjury.

Rodham later returned the money, but invoked the Fifth Amendment during a Congressional hearing on Clinton’s pardons.

Clinton also commuted the sentences over the objection of the FBI of 11 members of a Puerto Rican nationalist group that set off more than 100 bombs in the U.S. The large Puerto Rican community in New York City supports Democrats.

(Also Courtesy of Dr. Birdnow)