-Caveat Lector-
NEAL TRAVIS' NEW YORK
New York Post-Gossip-Thursday, February 15, 2001
WHO'S PATTY'S HEARSTWHILE HERO?
WHILE it's not in the same league as the Marc Rich scandal, the
question of just who got Bill Clinton to pardon Patty Hearst last
month has a lot of society tongues wagging.
I hear Patty's stepmom, Veronica Hearst, has been telling chums
she spent "most of last year" lobbying her friends, Bill and
Hillary Clinton, to give Patty the clean bill of health that many
of us think was more than warranted.
But Veronica's role was "minimal," according to several members
of the newspaper dynasty - who seem to be distancing themselves
from Veronica since the January death of her husband, Randolph
Hearst. Some in the family have never really cottoned to
Veronica, who married Randy 12 years ago, after he divorced
Catherine, his bride of four decades and the mother of all his
children. "The pardon drive was spearheaded by, and succeeded
because of, President JimmyCarter," says one family source.
"President Carter has always been sympathetic about Patty's case,
and the Hearst family is very grateful to him for his
intercession."
When he was president, Carter commuted the seven-year jail
sentence the heiress received for her part in a bank robbery
conducted by her Symbionese Liberation Army kidnappers.
Actually, you can feel a bit sorry for Veronica as she tries to
continue to have a significant role in the close-knit family.
Randolph inherited a fifth of the multibillion-dollar fortune
created by his father, William Randolph Hearst, but none of that
money goes to Veronica.
The Hearst wealth is in trusts and can go only to blood kin.
Randolph's share has passed to his five daughters. Veronica gets
to keep the Fifth Avenue apartment and a $30 million mansion
(said to be heavily mortgaged) in Manalapan, Fla.
Russian Rich-es for Bill?
AS for the Rich affair, the Senate committee studying the pardons
may hear about what insiders are calling "the Russian
connection." About a year ago, I wrote of rumors that some very
dubious Russians may have secretly contributed to Clinton's
re-election coffers.
At the time, there was no hint that the fugitive Rich might have
been the conduit of those illegal funds. Now I'm hearing from
sources that Rich, who made his fortune in the murky world of
commodity trading, was hand-in-glove with the Moscow demimonde.
Some think he may have had a role in channeling money to Clinton
and the Democratic National Committee, and that this might
explain why Russian mobsters appear to be able to enter the
United States with impunity. If Rich was involved in dirty money
being slipped to the Democrats, he would have had a powerful
bargaining tool when applying for his pardon.
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