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Clinton Lawyer Receives Contempt Threat
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Clinton lawyer receives contempt threat
Monday, 26 February 2001 13:53 (ET)
Clinton lawyer receives contempt threat
By P. MITCHELL PROTHERO
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Congressional investigators told former
President Clinton's personal attorney Monday to allow access to donor
records for Clinton's presidential library or face contempt of Congress
charges, United Press International has learned.
Attorney David Kendall has been sent a letter from House Government
Affairs Committee investigators that threatens to hold him in contempt
unless he allows committee investigators to examine the records that detail
large donations to the library effort. Last week, Kendall refused a similar
request to turn over records of donations exceeding $5,000, citing
Constitutional protection of free association.
Clinton library Chairman Skip Rutherford has been asked by committee
Chairman Dan Burton, R-Ind., to testify on Thursday about donations made to
the library that might have influenced Clinton's decision to pardon fugitive
financier Marc Rich on his last day in office.
Burton used to letter to explain the rationale for demanding the lists of
donors, saying that besides donors that might have tried to help Rich, or
his partner Pincus Green, the committee wants to check to see if any other
pardon recipients might have made donations to the fund.
Unless Kendall allows committee staff to examine the list of donors who
gave at least $5,000, Burton threatened to have a vote charging him and the
library organization in contempt of Congress. He also said that would
question Rutherford on Thursday and would subpoena the library's records of
its accounts with Regions Bank and Bank of America unless the donor list is
released.
Committee investigators were waiting for rulings from the State Department
on whether Rich was a U.S. citizen and from intelligence agencies on whether
they can declassify and release any files they have on Rich.
Earlier it had been reported in The Washington Post that Clinton's
brother-in-law, Hugh Rodham, contacted White House attorneys in an effort to
gain pardons for a couple convicted of making illegal campaign contributions
to Democrats. Rodham, a Florida attorney, acknowledged last week that he
received about $400,000 to help with two successful clemency applications.
He said he returned the money.
The Post, in a report in its Monday editions, said Rodham spoke to lawyers
in the counsel's office about Nora Lum and her husband, Eugene Kung Ho Lum,
who had also been convicted of tax fraud. The report quoted a source close
to the counsel's office. However, the Lums, prominent Democratic
fund-raisers at one time, did not receive a pardon or commutation of their
sentences.
Other sources familiar with the case and requesting anonymity said that
legal materials supporting the Lums' request were sent to Rodham personally
at the White House. Rodham's work on the Lums' pardon application shows that
he was more involved in the clemency process than previously known and that
he took advantage of his frequent and easy access to the White House, the
newspaper said.
Rodham's attorney, Nancy Luque, denied that her client was representing
the Lums, The Post said. "He did not represent them in any way, shape or
form in connection with any pardon request," she said. "He did not advocate
on their behalf."
Rodham was paid $400,000 in "success fees" by convicted drug smuggler
Carlos Vignali and A. Glenn Braswell, who was convicted of perjury and mail
fraud. The Clintons both said last week they had been unaware of the
financial arrangement and demanded that Rodham return the money.
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Clinton Lawyer Receives Contempt Threat
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Clinton lawyer receives contempt threat
Monday, 26 February 2001 13:53 (ET)
Clinton lawyer receives contempt threat
By P. MITCHELL PROTHERO
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Congressional investigators told former
President Clinton's personal attorney Monday to allow access to donor
records for Clinton's presidential library or face contempt of Congress
charges, United Press International has learned.
Attorney David Kendall has been sent a letter from House Government
Affairs Committee investigators that threatens to hold him in contempt
unless he allows committee investigators to examine the records that detail
large donations to the library effort. Last week, Kendall refused a similar
request to turn over records of donations exceeding $5,000, citing
Constitutional protection of free association.
Clinton library Chairman Skip Rutherford has been asked by committee
Chairman Dan Burton, R-Ind., to testify on Thursday about donations made to
the library that might have influenced Clinton's decision to pardon fugitive
financier Marc Rich on his last day in office.
Burton used to letter to explain the rationale for demanding the lists of
donors, saying that besides donors that might have tried to help Rich, or
his partner Pincus Green, the committee wants to check to see if any other
pardon recipients might have made donations to the fund.
Unless Kendall allows committee staff to examine the list of donors who
gave at least $5,000, Burton threatened to have a vote charging him and the
library organization in contempt of Congress. He also said that would
question Rutherford on Thursday and would subpoena the library's records of
its accounts with Regions Bank and Bank of America unless the donor list is
released.
Committee investigators were waiting for rulings from the State Department
on whether Rich was a U.S. citizen and from intelligence agencies on whether
they can declassify and release any files they have on Rich.
Earlier it had been reported in The Washington Post that Clinton's
brother-in-law, Hugh Rodham, contacted White House attorneys in an effort to
gain pardons for a couple convicted of making illegal campaign contributions
to Democrats. Rodham, a Florida attorney, acknowledged last week that he
received about $400,000 to help with two successful clemency applications.
He said he returned the money.
The Post, in a report in its Monday editions, said Rodham spoke to lawyers
in the counsel's office about Nora Lum and her husband, Eugene Kung Ho Lum,
who had also been convicted of tax fraud. The report quoted a source close
to the counsel's office. However, the Lums, prominent Democratic
fund-raisers at one time, did not receive a pardon or commutation of their
sentences.
Other sources familiar with the case and requesting anonymity said that
legal materials supporting the Lums' request were sent to Rodham personally
at the White House. Rodham's work on the Lums' pardon application shows that
he was more involved in the clemency process than previously known and that
he took advantage of his frequent and easy access to the White House, the
newspaper said.
Rodham's attorney, Nancy Luque, denied that her client was representing
the Lums, The Post said. "He did not represent them in any way, shape or
form in connection with any pardon request," she said. "He did not advocate
on their behalf."
Rodham was paid $400,000 in "success fees" by convicted drug smuggler
Carlos Vignali and A. Glenn Braswell, who was convicted of perjury and mail
fraud. The Clintons both said last week they had been unaware of the
financial arrangement and demanded that Rodham return the money.
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