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Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and
Banking Transactions Spying, Part XVII
by J. Orlin Grabbe
Is it now time to go Whitewater rafting in the river of American
Injustice? In the Texas-Mexico border region there is something they
call *la mordita* ("the bite"). The game theorists at the Rand Corporation
might refer to a "side payment". Vulgar street parlance speaks of "graft"
or "payola". Whatever it's called, it often accumulates in hidden bank
accounts.
Was such an account in existence at Mellon Bank on July 16, 1993?
Or was the account in question entirely legitimate?
Let us consider an innocent attorney named Sheila F. Anthony.
Sheila F. Anthony, Assistant Attorney General, Office of
Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice. Besides serving as
liaison with Congress, her duties include clearance of bills before they
are forwarded to the Office and Management and Budget. She also has
a role in selecting nominees for positions as U.S. Attorneys, U.S.
Marshalls, and Federal Judges.
Sheila F. Anthony, the wife of Beryl Anthony. Beryl Anthony
is a former Arkansas congressman, former treasurer of the Democratic
National Committee, and a lawyer in the Washington D.C. office of the
Chicago-based law firm of Winston and Strawn, whose chairman is former
Governor of Illinois Jim Thompson.
Sheila Foster Anthony, sister of Vince Foster, the dead Deputy
White House Counselor.
Sheila F. Anthony, *who is said to have effected a wire transfer
of approximately $286,000 from a branch of Mellon Bank on July 16, 1993,
to her sister-in-law, Lisa Foster, the wife of Vince Foster, four days prior
to Vince Foster's death*.
Large financial transactions, taking place between relations of
a person whose death is not entirely satisfactorily explained, usually
generate further inquiries--no manner how possibly innocent the explanation.
Particularly if the money is authorized by a top official of the
Justice Department and paid to the wife of a top official of the White
House--and the White House official disappears a few days later for a
number of hours, before being found dead under mysterious circumstances.
This wire transfer is not mentioned in the two volumes of the 1994
Senate report on the death of Vince Foster, nor is a likely explanation
suggested by a perusal of their contents. Lisa Foster *did* tell the FBI
she arrived to set up a permanent residence for her family on June 5, 1993.
But if the money was payment on a house, why was this not discussed in the
context of Vince Foster's "depression"? For Lisa also said Vince had, in
the previous week, talked of resigning his White House job--hardly auspicious
circumstances under which to make further financial committments in the
D.C. area.
Moreover, what was the source of the funds? Did they represent the
private savings of Sheila F. Anthony or her husband Beryl?
Or did they come from a hidden account set up by Vince Foster
himself, but now being transferred to his wife for safe-keeping, because
Foster's Swiss account had been recently cleaned out?
Or was there something even more sinister involved in this transfer
of money?
Let's put this alleged $286,000 wire transfer into chronological
perspective:
July 1, 1993, Thursday
Foster purchases a plane ticket from Washington D.C. to Geneva on
TWA and Swiss Air.
July 2, Friday
Vince Foster has a dinner at his house, and surprises Sheila
Anthony by the secret arrangements he had made to have Sheila's daughter
fly up from Texas to attend the dinner which was in honor of Sheila's
confirmation as Assistant Attorney General.
Around the same date, Vince and Lisa Foster have dinner with
Sheila and Beryl Anthony at the Cactus Cantina restaurant.
July 8, Thursday
Swiss Air refunds the purchase price of Foster's ticket. Foster
had canceled the trip to Geneva "when he inquired about his numbered bank
account at Banca Della Svizzera Italiana in Chiasso, Switz.--and found the
account empty. Foster was shocked to learn from the bank that someone using
his secret authorization code had withdrawn all $2.73 million he had stashed
there and had moved it to, of all places, the U.S. Treasury" (Jim Norman,
"Fostergate", *Media Bypass Magazine*, August 1995).
July 11, Sunday
Vince Foster tells his wife Lisa he had written the opening argument
for his defense against a feared congressional probe into his affairs.
According to the Fiske report, Lisa believed this was the torn note found in
Foster's briefcase by Stephen Neuwirth on July 26, six day's after Foster's
death.
July 12, Monday
Webster Hubbell receives Inslaw's rebuttal to the Bua Report. The
rebuttal is dated July 11, 1993.
July 16, Friday
Sheila F. Anthony allegedly receives an approximate $286,000
wire transfer from Mellon Bank. She contacts a psychiatrist and tells him--
according to the psychiatrist--that Foster is working on "top secret" issues
at the White House, and that "his depression was directly related to highly
sensitive and confidential matters." But Vince Foster does not visit the
psychiatrist. Instead the name of this psychiatrist, along with the names of
two others, are found in his wallet after his death.
Clinton has a two hour meeting with Judge Louis Freeh.
In the evening Vince and Lisa Foster drive to the Tidewater Inn,
on the eastern shore of Maryland.
July 17-18, Saturday & Sunday
Vince and Lisa Foster spend the weekend on Maryland's eastern shore.
By "coincidence" Webster Hubbell also spends the weekend in the area, and
he and Vince Foster meet at the estate of Michael Cardozo, head of Clinton's
legal defense team and son-in-law of prominent Democratic fund-raiser Nathan
Landau.
According to the Fiske report, "Lisa Foster stated that the
weekend did not go particularly well for Foster. When Foster returned
on Sunday evening, July 18, he spoke to Lyons by telephone."
(James M. Lyons was a Little Rock attorney who was Counsel to
the Clinton-Gore Presidential Transition Planning Foundation. He says
Foster discussed Travelgate, and they talked about his representing Foster
before Congress.)
July 19, Monday
Marsha Scott, Deputy Assistant to the President, spends 1-2 hours
in a closed door session with Vince Foster. This is especially noted by
Linda Trapp, executive assistant to Bernard Nussbaum, because Foster rarely
has meetings this long with any one person.
Foster calls Larry Watkins, his physician in Arkansas and says he
is depressed. Watkins calls a D.C. pharmacy and has 30 tablets of DESYREL
(Trazodon) delivered to Foster's residence before 6 p.m.
At 3:15 p.m. Clinton meets with Janet Reno to discuss the FBI.
Afterward he fires FBI Director William Sessions, and appoints Floyd
Clark as Acting FBI Director.
Webster Hubbell stops by Foster's office. According to testimony,
Hubbell gives Foster a Systematics-related document.
Monday night Foster goes home earlier than usual. Bill Clinton
calls to invite Vince to a movie back at the White House. Vince declines,
and has dinner with Lisa.
July 20, Tuesday
At 9:27 a.m. in the Rose Garden, Clinton nominates Judge Louis Freeh
to be head of FBI. Clinton commends the FBI on the "remarkably swift arrest
in the World Trade Center bombing" and laments that "drugs continue to ravage
our young people and our streets".
In Little Rock, the FBI obtains a warrant to search the Little Rock
offices of David Hale, the head of Capital Management Services.
(Hale was a Clinton-appointed municipal judge who charged that
James McDougal and Gov. Clinton forced him to give fraudulent SBA loans
to Clinton's friends. This included $300,000 to a company connected to
Madison Guaranty and run by McDougal's wife, $100,000 of which later
ended up in a Whitewater Development Co. account.)
James Lyons calls Foster from Little Rock late morning, but says
he was unable to speak to him. Lyons was scheduled to meet with Foster the
following day in Washington D.C.
C. Bradley Buck, a partner at the Rose Law Firm, calls Foster. Buck
leaves a message when he is unable to speak to Foster. Foster calls back at
12:17 p.m. (D.C. time) and leaves a message for Buck. Buck then calls Foster
back at 1:00 p.m., but Foster has gone out. Buck later tells the FBI his
calls related to the blind trust he was working on with Foster for Bill and
Hillary Clinton.
At 12:00 Foster asks Linda Tripp, executive assistant to Bernard
Nussbaum, to get him lunch from the cafetaria. He eats lunch in his office.
At about 1:00 p.m. he emerges with his jacket on and leaves, telling Tripp,
"There are lot's of M&Ms left in there. I'll be back."
Later at 6 p.m. Foster is reported dead, his body found laying on a
steep slope near one of the cannons at Ft. Marcy Park across the Potomac in
Virginia. His 4-door Honda Accord bearing Arkansas license plate RCN 504
is found in the Park parking lot. The car is registered to Vincent Foster,
Jr., 5414 Stonewall Rd., Little Rock, Arkansas 72207.
A Park Service employee says that a man in a white contractor
van had told him that he had seen a body by the last [second] cannon
at Fort Marcy Park. This report was in the form of a 911 telephone
call to the Fairfax County Public Safety Communications Center. The call
was received by dispatcher Marion White at call-taker position 11, at
5:59.59 p.m.
The Secret Service is notified when a White House identification
badge is found in the car.
White House staffers Bernard Nussbaum, Patsy Thomasson, and Maggie
Williams rifle Foster's office for "national security matters". The FBI and
the Park Police are kept waiting outside in the hallway. Secret Service
officer Henry O'Neill says he saw Maggie Williams, Hillary's chief of staff,
leave "carrying what I would describe, in her arms and hands, as folders".
Some documents are taken to Hillary's closet upstairs at the White House.
The White House releases a statement saying, "The positive
identification of Mr. Foster's body was provided to the White House
at approximately 9:55 p.m., and the death was reported by Park Service
Investigators as an apparent suicide."
July 21, Wednesday
At 12:50 p.m. in the Rose Garden, Clinton refers to Foster as "my
friend of 42 years," but as to his intimate friend's [alleged] suicide, says
"there is really no way to know why these things happen".
July 22, Thursday
Robert Brink is appointed Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office
of Legislative Affairs.
At the afternoon press briefing, Dee Dee Myers says that the
Park Service Police had been at the White House that morning; ". . . what
they are looking for is anything that would confirm it was a suicide,
such as a note".
Deborah Gorham, Vince Foster's secretary, is asked by Bernard
Nussbaum to help search Foster's file. She observes that the index
detailing the Clinton's personal files is missing.
July 23, Friday
In the morning Clinton attends funeral services for Foster at St.
Andrew's Catholic Church in Little Rock, then travels to Hope, Arkansas,
for the burial.
At a press briefing at Jack Still's Watermelon Stand in Hope,
Clinton said that earlier in the day he had met with Win Rockefeller
whom he had reappointed State Police Commissioner. (Clinton said he
had met Win in 1969 when Win's father was governor of Arkansas.)
* * *
Sheila Anthony told the FBI on April 4, 1994, that she had
"no knowledge of Foster having any financial difficulties".
If Foster had no financial difficulties, then what was the
alleged $280,000 wire transfer all about?
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