-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37470-2001Jan23.html Sen. Clinton Says She Had No Part in N.Y. Clemencies Associated Press Wednesday, January 24, 2001; Page A09 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) sat in on a meeting with supporters of clemency for four New York Hasidic men convicted of stealing millions of dollars in government funds but said yesterday she played no part in former president Bill Clinton's decision to commute their sentences. "I did not play any role whatsoever," Clinton said as she left a Democratic Caucus meeting. "I had no opinion about it." The president and his wife, then New York's senator-elect, met for about 45 minutes with two leaders from the New Square Hasidim in Rockland County who support clemency for Kalmen Stern, David Goldstein, Benjamin Berger and Jacob Elbaum. As first reported in the New York Daily News, the meeting took place Dec. 22 in the White House Map Room. "In the course of their meeting with the president, they mentioned it, and that was the first they had ever said something about it in my presence," the senator said. Clinton met New Square leaders during her Senate campaign, visited the Hasidic enclave 20 miles north of New York City on Aug. 7 and invited community leaders to visit the White House. New Square's Grand Rabbi David Twersky and Deputy Mayor Izzy Spitzer visited last month. When Bill Clinton was told about the clemency requests during the meeting, he said he would look into them, said New Square's spokesman, Rabbi Mayer Schiller. A week after the White House meeting, representatives for the four men submitted a petition to have the sentences reduced. Stern, Goldstein, Berger and Elbaum were convicted of stealing more than $40 million worth of Pell grants, small-business loans and housing subsidies. In November 1999, they were sentenced to 30 months to 78 months in prison. The president reduced Berger's sentence from 30 months to 24 months and cut to 30 months the sentences for the other three as part of pardons and commuted sentences he granted to 176 people hours before leaving office Saturday. The senator said she had taken no official position on any of the clemency applications and that her role was limited to passing along to the president information other people gave her in support of clemencies. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
