FEDS DUNK VEEP'S 'ICED TEA' DEFENSE IN FUNNY-$ SCANDAL
By VINCENT MORRIS and BRIAN BLOMQUIST
A new Justice Department document from the funny-money
campaign-funding investigation says Al Gore's famous "iced-tea
defense" is all wet.
Gore told the FBI he missed parts of a key fund-raising meeting
because he drank lots of iced tea and had to take frequent potty
breaks - but a federal prober said Gore's defense can't be true.
The Justice Department prosecutor wrote that former White House
aide Harold Ickes, who ran the fund-raising meetings, always
stopped them when President Clinton or Gore had to leave the
room.
["Not only is there no evidence that this occurred, but the
agents' notes reflect that Ickes told them that when he conducted
meetings, he would halt the proceedings if the president or vice
president stepped out of the room; the meeting would resume when
they returned," the prosecutor wrote in a memo. --MS]
The prosecutor's name was deleted when Attorney General Janet
Reno's staff turned the document over to congressional probers,
who released it yesterday.
The prosecutor's memo went on to recommend that an independent
counsel be named to investigate Gore's phone calls to
contributors from the White House - an idea Reno rejected.
Another newly released memo, from FBI Director Louis Freeh, said
there was "compelling evidence that the vice president was a very
active, sophisticated fund-raiser who knew exactly what he was
doing." The memo argued that Reno should name an independent
counsel on Gore.
Whether Gore was present is key because the meeting confirmed
he'd be raising so-called "hard money," which is prohibited at
the White House.
Meanwhile, in Tennessee yesterday, repairs began on a run-down
ranch house that Gore rents to a poor, 10-person family for $400
per month.
"I'm tickled pink," renter Tracy Mayberry, 36, told The Post as
she stood on the front porch of her house, which sits a stone's
throw from the Al and Tipper's larger farmhouse in Carthage.
But she added: "I'm not sure how I feel" about Landlord Al - she
claims Gore and his property managers ignored 30 complaints over
10 months and acted only after she spoke to a Nashville TV
station.
Just days after Mayberry told reporters that Gore was a
do-nothing slumlord, a plumber replaced a broken toilet, repaired
a second toilet and measured a kitchen floor to lay fresh
linoleum.
But the house, built in the 1950s next to the highway, still
needs lots of work. All the walls are filthy, most ceiling
lights lack covers, some electrical outlets are broken, and all
of the plumbing is worn out.
A Gore family friend, Charles Elrod, who is the family's
handyman, said some of the plumbing problems are self-inflicted.
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