-Caveat Lector-
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Monday Feb. 19, 2001; 11:27 a.m. EST
Questions Swirl Around Mystery Pardon of Roger Clinton's Cocaine
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In the wake of reports that recently pardoned former
first-brother Roger Clinton was the subject of a
clemency-for-cash FBI investigation, some now wonder about his
brother's mysterious last-minute pardon of Mitchell C. Wood, who
testified in 1986 that the younger Clinton used to supply him
with cocaine.
Wood, a resident of Sherwood, Arkansas, was sentenced to four
months in jail after fingering Roger, who did a year in prison
for his own role in a statewide cocaine ring that threatened to
rock the administration of his brother, the then-governor.
Now Newsweek reports that the Justice Department dropped its
recent pardon probe into Roger only because he wasn't a federal
official -- and not because the FBI lacked evidence to back-up
the charge.
So the question remains operative: Did the president's little
brother succeed in selling any presidential pardons -- and if so,
to whom?
Enter Mr. Wood, who told a reporter ten days before news of the
FBI's Clinton probe emerged that he couldn't explain why the
president decided to pardon him.
"Why Mr. Wood was pardoned is a mystery," reported the Wall
Street Journal, in a story headlined, "Pardon Recipient Says He
Had Ties to Roger Clinton."
"An employee of the Arkansas Department of Economic Development,
(Wood) said he applied to the Justice Department for a pardon
without an attorney's help several years ago and he hasn't 'seen
Roger in 15 years.'"
"Former President Clinton, he added, 'would not have any idea
who I was.'"
Others nailed in the same cocaine investigation that snagged
Roger Clinton and Mitchell Wood included Dan Lasater, a major
financial supporter who was pardoned by then-Gov. Clinton in
1990.
Also caught in drug dragnet was George E. "Butch" Locke, a
former state senator who was once in business with Lasater, and
who also hoped for a presidential pardon before Clinton left the
White House.
"I thought when Roger got his, I'd probably get mine," Locke
told the Journal.
He didn't, making Wood's pardon look all the more mysterious.
A Justice Department spokesperson was unavailable to comment on
whether the Wood case was one of those under scrutiny in the
FBI's Roger Clinton probe.
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