-Caveat Lector-
Monday, 26 February 2001 13:53 (ET)
Clinton lawyer receives contempt threat
By P. MITCHELL PROTHERO
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Congressional investigators told
former President Clinton's personal attorney Monday to allow
access to donor records for Clinton's presidential library or
face contempt of Congress charges, United Press International has
learned.
Attorney David Kendall has been sent a letter from House
Government Affairs Committee investigators that threatens to hold
him in contempt unless he allows committee investigators to
examine the records that detail large donations to the library
effort. Last week, Kendall refused a similar request to turn over
records of donations exceeding $5,000, citing Constitutional
protection of free association.
Clinton library Chairman Skip Rutherford has been asked by
committee Chairman Dan Burton, R-Ind., to testify on Thursday
about donations made to the library that might have influenced
Clinton's decision to pardon fugitive financier Marc Rich on his
last day in office.
Burton used to letter to explain the rationale for demanding the
lists of donors, saying that besides donors that might have tried
to help Rich, or his partner Pincus Green, the committee wants to
check to see if any other pardon recipients might have made
donations to the fund.
Unless Kendall allows committee staff to examine the list of
donors who gave at least $5,000, Burton threatened to have a vote
charging him and the library organization in contempt of
Congress. He also said that would question Rutherford on Thursday
and would subpoena the library's records of its accounts with
Regions Bank and Bank of America unless the donor list is
released.
Committee investigators were waiting for rulings from the State
Department on whether Rich was a U.S. citizen and from
intelligence agencies on whether they can declassify and release
any files they have on Rich.
Earlier it had been reported in The Washington Post that
Clinton's brother-in-law, Hugh Rodham, contacted White House
attorneys in an effort to gain pardons for a couple convicted of
making illegal campaign contributions to Democrats. Rodham, a
Florida attorney, acknowledged last week that he received about
$400,000 to help with two successful clemency applications. He
said he returned the money.
The Post, in a report in its Monday editions, said Rodham spoke
to lawyers in the counsel's office about Nora Lum and her
husband, Eugene Kung Ho Lum, who had also been convicted of tax
fraud. The report quoted a source close to the counsel's office.
However, the Lums, prominent Democratic fund-raisers at one time,
did not receive a pardon or commutation of their sentences.
Other sources familiar with the case and requesting anonymity
said that legal materials supporting the Lums' request were sent
to Rodham personally at the White House. Rodham's work on the
Lums' pardon application shows that he was more involved in the
clemency process than previously known and that he took advantage
of his frequent and easy access to the White House, the newspaper
said.
Rodham's attorney, Nancy Luque, denied that her client was
representing the Lums, The Post said. "He did not represent them
in any way, shape or form in connection with any pardon request,"
she said. "He did not advocate on their behalf."
Rodham was paid $400,000 in "success fees" by convicted drug
smuggler Carlos Vignali and A. Glenn Braswell, who was convicted
of perjury and mail fraud. The Clintons both said last week they
had been unaware of the financial arrangement and demanded that
Rodham return the money. -- Copyright 2001 by United Press
International. All rights reserved.
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