UPDATED LIST OF ALLEGED CRIMES IN NOTE: Because this file became so longTHE BODY COUNT
THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION
(This list is quite old now. Updating needed daily.)
On February 27, The Washington Weekly ran an editorial listing alleged crimes and ethics violations of the Clinton Administration. Since then, additional Independent Counsels and investigations have been added and we present an updated list below. This list can be considered a "menu" from which the Senate will pick when it serves its Whitewater hearing to the American people next month. The list, now including 24 Clinton appointees, is by no means exhaustive.
BILL CLINTON:
(1) Used State Police for personal purposes.
(2) Directed State Police to fabricate incriminating evidence against political opponents: Steve Clark, Terry Reed, and Larry Nichols.
(3) Conspired to defraud the Small Business Administration.
(4) Was complicit in the shipment of drugs through Arkansas.
(5) Laundered drug money through ADFA.
(6) Appointed and protected Arkansas Medical Examiner Fahmy Malak who repeatedly obstructed justice by declaring murders as "suicides" or "accidents."
(7) Has never accounted for his actions during 40 days behind the Iron Curtain during the Vietnam War.
(8) Tipped off Governor Tucker about upcoming criminal referral.
(9) Violated Arkansas campaign finance laws.
(10) Violated his oath of office to uphold the Constitution by signing into law an ex post facto law, a retroactive tax increase.
(11) Fired RTC chief Albert Casey to allow his friend Roger Altman to monitor and block Whitewater investigations.
(12) Fired FBI director William Sessions to prevent an autonomous FBI from investigating the Foster suicide and other scandals.
(13) Fired all U.S. Attorneys to appoint Paula Casey to prevent Judge David Hale from testifying against Clinton.
(14) Offered State Troopers federal jobs in return for their silence about Clinton's crimes.
(15) Blocked Justice Department indictments after Inspector General Sherman Funk found "criminal violations of the Privacy Act provable beyond reasonable doubt" when former Bush employee files were searched and leaked to the press.
(16) Had Whitewater criminal referrals quashed in the Justice Department.
(17) Blocked the criminal trial of Representative Ford, a Tennessee Democrat.
(18) Appointed a campaign activist to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, without the mandated "advice and consent" of the Senate, to derail a probe of his and Hillary's financial dealings.
Bill Clinton is under investigation by an Independent Counsel.
HILLARY CLINTON:
(1) Took a $100,000 bribe, camouflaged as futures trades, from Tyson Foods Inc.
(2) Speculated in Health Care industry futures while overseeing legislative reform of same.
(3) Failed to correct false testimony by co-defendant Ira Magaziner in Health Care trial.
(4) Obstructed justice by ordering the shredding of Vince Foster's documents.
(5) Ordered members of the Health Care Task Force to shred documents that were the target of a court probe.
(6) Ordered the removal of documents from Vince Foster's office. Hillary Clinton is under investigation by an Independent Counsel.
NOW ABOUT THE JUDGES THEY APPOINTED
How the administration is executive legislating through the judicial branch.
The forerunner and world messenger for the NEW GLOBAL UNION
WEBSTER HUBBELL:
(1) Convicted for defrauding the federal government (FDIC and IRS).
SUZANNA HUBBELL
Interior Department special assistant.
Mrs. Hubbell had been working at the Interior Department and took a leave
of absence while her husband, Webster Hubbell, was pleading guilty to felony
charges. Part of Mr. Hubbell's plea included an agreement to cooperate
with the ongoing Whitewater investigation. Mrs. Hubbell wanted to be rehired
and made frequent calls to senior White House advisor Bruce Lindsey and
other Administration officials. There were contacts back and forth between
the White House and the Interior Department and then Mrs. Hubbell was rehired.
Questions have now been raised about whether the hiring of the wife of
a person who's Whitewater testimony could further implicate President and
Mrs. Clinton was appropriate. Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr
was asked to review whether the rehiring was a White House attempt to influence
an ongoing criminal investigation. The independent counsel is conducting
such a review.
(2) Executed obstruction of justice ordered by Bill Clinton. Resigned.
IRA MAGAZINER:
(1) Violated federal law when he held Health Care Task Force Meetings in secret and refused to release documents
(2) Lied in court about the composition of the Health Care Task Force. Under investigation by U.S. Attorney.
JIM GUY TUCKER
Arkansas Governor and Clinton's lieutenant governor.
Lieutenant governor under Clinton, Tucker was charged in federal court
in June 1995 on three felony counts and later charged in August 1995 on
another 11 counts for fraud and conspiracy. The charges all related to
illegal activity in connection with getting government backed loans. Tucker,
along with Jim and Susan McDougal, was charged with conspiring to defraud
the government by inflating property values, lying to federal agencies
about financial worth, using loan proceeds for other illegal activity,
making false reports to lending agencies, and using nonexistent companies
to get loans. In May 1996 a jury in federal court in Arkansas found Tucker
guilty. Tucker resigned from the Governor's office and is now appealing
the case. In August the federal judge presiding over the case sentenced
Tucker to four years probation, including 18 months during which he is
ordered to stay home, leaving only for church or doctors' appointments.
Tucker faced a possible sentence of 10 years, but the Judge said the lighter
sentence was due to Tucker's poor health. Doctors testified that Tucker
needs a liver transplant and without it he could die in two years.
BERNARD NUSSBAUM:
(1) Obstructed justice in the Foster suicide investigation by blocking access, removing documents, lying about his removal of documents, and by retrieving Foster's pager from Park Police.
(2) Attempted to quash a Whitewater investigation at the RTC through White House liaisons. Resigned.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS:
White House senior adviser.
Stephanopoulos got a $668,000 loan for which, given his income and assets
and normal banking rules, he would not have been eligible. The loan also
carried a below market interest rate. He then used that money to buy an
$835,000 building in Washington. He lives in the luxury apartment on the
top floors and collects rent from the eyeglass store below. One, unnamed
banker said, "This deal reeks of favoritism." In a separate incident,
Stephanopoulos was arrested by Washington, D.C. police after he bashed
a nearby car as he tried to get out of a parking spot outside a local restaurant.
The arresting officer claimed Stephanopoulos was trying to leave the scene
of the accident; Stephanopoulos claimed otherwise. The charges were dropped.
(2) Lied to Congress.
(3) Attempted to have Whitewater investigator Jay Stephens at the RTC fired.
MIKE ESPY:
(1) Took bribes from Tyson Foods Inc., which was under regulatory control of his Agriculture Department. Espy is under investigation by a Special Counsel. Resigned.
ROGER ALTMAN:
(1) Lied to Congress.
(2) Lied to Congress about having lied to Congress.
(3) Instructed Ellen Kulka and Jack Ryan at the RTC to block the Whitewater investigation by L. Jean Lewis. Resigned.
RON BROWN (R.I.P. May God convict the guilty):
(1) Has taken bribes from almost everybody. Says it is part of the way Washington works. The allegations are too numerous and complicated to be detailed here. Under investigation by Justice Department. SEE THE BODY COUNT
LES ASPIN:
(1) Through criminal negligence was responsible for the death of Army Rangers in Somalia. Has never been held accountable in public hearings. Resigned.
Panetta, Sylvia
Consultant, and wife of White House chief of staff Leon Panetta.
Mrs. Panetta was hired as a $331 a day consultant to work full time for
the Ounce of Prevention Council. This council was created in 1994 to coordinate
grants to local community crime fighting programs. According to one source,
after 13 months the program had not administered a single grant. Vice President
Al Gore oversees this program and hired Mrs. Panetta. The Clinton administration
wants to increase funding for the council.
WILLIAM KENNEDY, DAVID WATKINS, PATSY THOMASSON:
(1) Fabricated charges against White House Travel Office personnel to have the business taken over by Clinton friends.
(2) Coerced FBI and IRS agents into complicity with this scheme. Kennedy and Watkins have resigned.
DAVID WATKINS
White House Director of Administration.
Watkins used the Presidential helicopter to fly to the Holly Hills Country
Club in nearby Maryland to play golf. A second helicopter flew along as
an escort. The golf outing cost $13, 129. Watkins resigned (May 1994) and
said he would reimburse the government for the full amount. About six weeks
after he resigned from the White House, Watkins was put on a $3,000 a month
retainer by the Clinton campaign. Clinton campaign officials said the more
than $30,000 paid to him was not a payoff to get him to leave the White
House and reimburse the helicopter cost. Watkins was also accused of sexual
harassment by a woman who worked for Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign.
Clinton's campaign paid $37,500 to settle the matter, although the payment
was disguised with vague language in the required campaign finance reports.
The existence of the payment to settle the sexual harassment case only
came to light in a later audit by the Federal Election Commission. The
FEC also ruled that federal matching funds could not be used for such purposes
and demanded a return of $9, 675 the portion of the total payment that
came from matching funds. Finally, the General Accounting Office has accused
Watkins of lying to them while they conducted their investigation of the
Travelgate scandal. The GAO has asked the Justice Department to investigate.
CATHERINE CORNELIUS:
(1) Removed documents from White House Travel Office. Because those documents later became the subject of a trial against Office Director Billy Dale, that could amount to obstruction of justice.
PATSY THOMASSON:
(1) Lied to Congress about the composition of the Health Care Task Force and the size of its budget.
JOSHUA STEINER:
(1) Lied to Congress. (He also lied to his diary, but that is not a crime.) Resigned.
NEAL T. AINLEY
Former president of a bank that loaned money to Clinton's 1990 governor
campaign.
In 1990, the bank of Perry County, Arkansas loaned Clinton $180,000 to
help fund his campaign for governor. Ainley was charged (March 1995) with
conspiring to conceal last minute withdrawals from the Clinton campaign
account at the bank. Federal law requires disclosure of large transactions
as a way to control money laundering. Ainley was indicted by a grand jury
investigating the Whitewater affair. In May 1995 Ainley pleaded guilty
to reduced charges (felony charges reduced to misdemeanor counts) in exchange
for his testimony in the continuing Whitewater investigation. In January
1996 Ainley was sentenced to two years' probation, ordered to pay a fine
and required to perform 416 hours of community service.
LLOYD CUTLER:
(1) Lied to Congress about the contents of redacted documents.
(2) Attempted to withhold vital information from Congress, a felony. Resigned.
HENRY G. CISNEROS
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
In May 1995 a panel of federal judges appointed Mr. David M. Barrett as
independent counsel to investigate whether Cisneros lied to the FBI about
cash payments to a mistress. In background checks before his appointment
to Clinton's Cabinet, Cisneros had told the FBI of payments to a mistress,
but said the individual payments were never more than $2,500 and the yearly
total was never more than $10,000. Contrary to what he said, Cisneros had
made yearly payments of between $42,000 and $60,000 and individual payments
of much more than $2,500. In a related, but separate development, Cisneros
agreed (May 1995) to pay his former mistress $49,000 to settle a lawsuit
she had filed against him.
MACK MCLARTY:
(1) Conspired with Democratic Congressional Leadership to block access to vital documents in a Congressional hearing.
JOHN DALTON
Secretary of the Navy. Dalton ran a Texas savings and loan (Sequin
Savings Association) that failed at a cost to the taxpayers of $100 million.
Federal saving and loan regulatory agencies went after Dalton for gross
negligence and possible violations of state and federal laws. The regulatory
action ended with the payment of $3.8 million in a civil settlement to
end the government's claims against Dalton and other executives at the
S&L. None of this was mentioned by the Clinton Administration when
Dalton was nominated and it was not made public during Dalton's confirmation
in the Senate. The S&L charges were discussed in a closed door hearing
of the Senate Armed Services Committee, but only the Senators at that meeting,
and not the others voting on the nomination, knew of the controversy. Dalton,
a campaign fund raiser for both former President Jimmy Carter and for Clinton,
got the top Navy job.
HAROLD ICKES:
(1) Broke into New York Republican headquarters in 1970. Has never been indicted for this crime which was similar to what the Watergate Plumbers spent time in jail for.
(2) Worked for Mafia-controlled labor unions.
Surgeon General. After almost two years on the job and after making
comments critical of Catholics; after suggesting drugs should be legalized;
after saying five year olds should be taught about AIDS; after urging the
Girl Scouts to admit lesbians; and after agreeing that schools should consider
teaching children about masturbation, Elders was finally fired.
BRUCE LINDSEY:
(1) As treasurer for the Clinton gubernatorial campaign in 1990, he signed withdrawals from Perry County Bank, the president of which has been indicted for conspiring to conceal these withdrawals from the IRS and FEC.
DICK MORRIS
Clinton's top political advisor.
In August 1996 Dick Morris, the President's top political advisor, resigned
when a prostitute claimed Morris had been paying for her services for 10
months, while he stayed, at Clinton campaign expense, in a $440 dollar-a-day
luxury Washington hotel. The prostitute sold her story to a tabloid newspaper,
the Star, well known for trading in scandal and sensationalism. But, the
paper ran convincing proof, including pictures. Neither Morris nor anyone
in the Clinton White House has denied the allegations. Surprisingly, the
only comments on the scandal from the President and his staff have been
to either compliment Morris on his political expertise or to claim that
the Administration should not be held responsible for something done by
its top political consultant.
MARIAN BENETT:
(1) Covered up credit-card fraud by USIA Inspector General staff.
O'Leary, Hazel
Secretary of Energy.
The General Accounting Office audited some of Secretary O'Leary's travel
expenses, including charges for first class travel and luxury hotels. The
cost of trips taken by O'Leary is as much as 90% higher than those taken
by other cabinet officers. Nearly $1 million was spent on a 1995 trip to
South Africa and $730,000 was spent on a 1994 trip to India. On one trip,
O'Leary used a charter aircraft that had been used by the singer/actress
Madonna. The GAO said it could not find documentation for $80,00 in costs
charged to the India trip and there were problems with $175,000 charged
to the South Africa trip. So far, O'Leary has reimbursed the government
$8,748 for unauthorized first class travel and $450 for personal dry cleaning
bills. O'Leary claims the foreign trips are worth the cost because corporate
CEO's who travel with her have cut foreign trade business deals worth billions.
Under O'Leary's direction, the Department of Energy also spent $46,500
to hire a private firm to rate news reporters based on their favorable
or unfavorable coverage of the department. Reminiscent of "enemies
lists" kept by the Nixon Administration, Clinton's chief of staff
said this was not tolerable, but found enough toleration to let Secretary
O'Leary keep her job.
FEDERICO PENA:
(1) State and federal contracts were awarded to companies in which he had a financial interest. The Justice Department found insufficient evidence to appoint a Special Counsel.
HENRY CISNEROS: (1) Lied to the FBI about payments to former lover. Under investigation by Special Counsel.
JANET RENO:
(1) Fabricated charges of child molestation against the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.
(2) Ordered the use of military equipment against citizens of the United States
(3) Ordered the use of chemical agents against citizens of the United States.
ROBERT REICH
(1) Lied to Congress when he wrote that there were no memos circulating in the Labor Department instructing staff to gather political material against the Contract with America. Such memos were later published. Under investigation by Congress.
DONNA SHALALA
(1) As Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison instituted speech codes which were found to be unconstitutional in federal court. Instituted though-police star chamber proceedings to drive politically incorrect people off campus.
(1) Used the EPA to campaign against Republicans running on the Contract with America, an illegal use of the executive branch for political campaigning. Under investigation by Congress.
(1) Violated the First Amendment when she ordered HUD lawyers to silence citizens who spoke out against planned housing projects.
(2) Exceeded her authority when she had HUD staff threaten Allentown County to withdraw an "Use of English language encouraged" ordinance. Is going to resign.
DEVAL PATRICK
(1) Used extortion to force banks to give preferential treatment to minorities. Congress is investigating the possibility of impeachment based on abuse of power. In addition to the above allegations, it is alleged that a substantial fraction of White House personnel has been unable to pass FBI criminal background checks, and the White House has admitted that 11 unnamed White House staffers have had recent drug use. Unsubstantiated allegations of murder, treason, and conspiracy have been omitted from the above list.
In light of this record, it is appropriate to mention those Clinton Cabinet Secretaries who are not under investigation and have never had criminal allegations raised against them:
HAZEL O'LEARY, Secretary of Energy RICHARD RILEY, Secretary of Education WILLIAM PERRY, Secretary of Defense BRUCE BABBIT, Secretary of the Interior WARREN CHRISTOPHER, Secretary of State In this administration these secretaries must be considered beacons of morality.
Given recent allegations about Hazel O'Leary and William Perry, perhaps Mr. Lee, editor of the Washington Weekly, would like to amend this section (Sources: published accounts in The Washington Weekly)
White House aides
as many as 40.
Secret Service agents testified that in conducting background investigations
on Clinton White House staff, they found as many as forty employees who
had a history of using hard drugs, including cocaine and crack. The drug
use was serious enough to cause the Secret Service to refuse to issue security
passes for some of these employees. After a program calling for frequent
drug tests on 21 of the employees was set up, the Secret Service then agreed
to issue permanent security passes.
CAMPAIGNE CONTRIBUTORS
JUAN JORGE CABRERA
Convicted drug kingpin. Photographed with Bill Clinton in the WhiteHouse. Currently in jail.
GRIGOR LOUTCHANSKY
Russian Nuclear arms smuggler.
ASSORTED ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
Numerous cases documented in this article.
GERRY ADAMS
IRA Terrorist.
Gen. CHI HOATIAN
The "Butcher of Beijing." Who had the audacity to claim that no one was killed in Beijing Square. They were. He killed them.
WANG JUN
Chinese arms dealer.
ERIC WYNN
Convicted embezzler working for the Mafia.
ARTHUR COIA
Labor Union leader under investigation for Mob connections.