Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), have said that they did not know Rodham was working on behalf of those applicants. The president’s brother-in-law Hugh Rodham accepted $400,000 for pushing through two clemencies: $200,000 for a commutation for convicted drug dealer Carlos Vignali of Los Angeles and $200,000 for a pardon for herbal-remedy marketer Almon Glenn Braswell of Florida. He declined to identify his friends or to say whether he had been involved with any clemencies that were granted.įormer President Clinton granted 140 pardons and 36 commutations on his last day in office, and since then a growing controversy has swirled around his clemency grants for certain applicants-most notably a pardon for fugitive commodities broker Marc Rich. “I did everything legitimately,” he added. I made sure that they had all their paperwork filled out through their lawyers and that it all had been sent into the Justice Department. “I worked hard around my brother,” he said, explaining that he had worked hard to get his friends lined up for pardons through normal channels before he left the list for the president in the White House. Of his pardon work, the younger Clinton said Friday that he also helped connect his friends with lawyers, assisted them in filling out pardon applications and made sure all the paperwork was filed “timely and properly” with the Justice Department. He served one year at the Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Worth and was released to a halfway house in Dallas. In 1985, Roger pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine and was sentenced to two years in prison.
Bill Clinton, who authorized a sting that led to his arrest on drug charges. In the 1980s, Roger ran into a different kind of trouble, and it was his brother, then-Arkansa Gov. When they were growing up, Bill Clinton, whose father died in a car accident three months before he was born, tried to protect Roger, 10 years his junior, and their mother from Roger Clinton Sr., an abusive alcoholic who adopted Bill Clinton.
Roger Clinton, 44, often has turned to his older brother for help.
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