-Caveat Lector-
[I think it's time to finally admit that "The Clintons [REALLY] are above
the law." --MS]
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With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Thursday April 19, 2001; 2:40 p.m. EDT
Torricelli and Hillary: A Tale of Two Suspects
Robert Torricelli and Hillary Clinton have a great deal in common.
Both are Democratic liberals elected to the U.S. Senate from populous
Northeastern states. Both enjoy lavish personal lifesyles that require
financial support beyond their respective Senate salaries.
And both have been accused by Asian businessmen of selling governmental
favors for personal and political contributions; allegations uncovered
during the Justice Department's 1996 campaign finance probe.
Yet only one, Torricelli, appears to have been seriously pursued by
federal prosecutors, who may be about to indict him.
Meanwhile the former first lady continues to skate on serious and
credible allegations that she not only sold governmental favors from her
West Wing White House office, but was a key player in a conspiracy to
sell out America's national security interests.
A review of the evidence against Torricelli and Hillary reveals a
staggering prosecutorial double standard at work.
The latest charges against the New Jersey Senator come from David Chang,
who contributed $53,700 to Torricelli's campaigns and also supplied
personal gifts in exchange for help with several international business
deals.
The gifts included a Rolex watch, some earrings for a girlfriend, ten
tailored Italian suits and other assorted items.
On the surface Chang's charges sound very serious. But so far he's the
only one of several Torricelli supporters who have pled guilty to
campaign finance violations to implicate the Senator in any illegality.
One of the most damaging allegations comes from one of Chang's
assistants, Audrey Yu. In 1997 she said she personally delivered an
envelope from Chang stuffed with $10,000 in cash to Torricelli at his
home.
Yu also claims she accompanied Chang to Torricelli's home the year
before where the Senator took a $25,000 payoff.
Unfortunately for prosecutors, both transactions were in cash, making
the accusations hard to prove.
Not so with Johnny Chung, who made his donations to Bill, Hillary and
the Democratic Party by check, copies of which have been in the hands of
prosecutors for years.
In fact, Chung makes Chang look like a piker. Not only did he tell the
Justice Department that he showered $366,000 on Democrats in order to
gain influence for his own international business deals, but Chung says
the money bought him direct access to both Bill and Hillary Clinton
starting in 1994.
"Welcome to the White House, my good friend," Mrs. Clinton told Chung,
whom she had never met before, after the California businessman handed
her chief of staff a check for $50,000 inside the White House.
Chung was told his donation would be used to pay for a White House
Christmas party hosted by Hillary -- expenses apparently not covered by
the normal operations budget and therefore owed by her personally.
Hillary got more help with her personal expenses in 1996, when Charlie
Trie, another Asian contributor like Chang, showered the Clintons' Legal
Defense Fund with $642,000 -- all of it in laundered money.
She kept close tabs on the fund's balance sheet along with White House
deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, who worked questionable donors hard
on behalf of the Clintons. Both Hillary and Ickes suspected that Trie's
money was tainted but didn't return it till another $600,000 Trie
contribution to the Democratic Party proved to be illegal.
In testimony last year to the FBI, Trie implicated Mrs. Clinton in
enough serious wrongdoing that investigators for the Justice
Department's Campaign Finance Task Force wanted an independent counsel
to probe her role in the larger scandal, as well as her husband's,
according to a Los Angeles Times.
But unlike what has happened to Sen. Torricelli since the campaign
finance scandal erupted in 1996, the Justice Dept. demurred.
Other allegations against the unlucky New Jersey Democrat include
insider trading, stock deals that allowed him to make thousands in the
market in the early 1990's.
That's something else Mrs. Clinton has in common with her New Jersey
colleague.
But when it came to the New York Senator's own insider trading -- a
highly suspect killing in high-risk cattle futures that investment
experts say would have been impossible without cheating -- there was no
controlling legal authority.
Interestingly, Torricelli has hired high-powered Washington attorney
Theordore V. Wells to handle his growing legal problems. It's a good
choice.
Wells had the Justice Department's backing in 1999 when he beat the rap
for former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, who had been indicted for
taking gratuities from businesses regulated by his department.
Torricelli said last month that Chang has also made damaging allegations
against the Clintons, but his office won't elaborate. Neither will
investigators whose job it is to verify Chang's stories.
At least one of Torricelli's colleagues has openly attacked the key
prosection witness' credibilty, citing a record of false testimony. "I
would encourage people not to form an opinion based on the allegations
of a known perjurer," New Jersey's junior senator John Corzine told the
New York Times Friday.
No such allegation has ever been leveled against Mrs. Clinton's
campaign finance accusers. In fact, at Johnny Chung's sentencing, U.S.
District Court Judge Manuel Real criticized the Justice Department for
not following the evidence he provided.
"It's very strange that the giver pleads guilty and the givee gets off
free," Real told the court.
But if Sen. Torricelli has any complaints about the Justice
Department's egregious double standard; one that has him issuing angry
denials almost daily now while Sen. Clinton continues living large off
the proceeds of big-buck book deals and gifts like Denise Rich's $7,000
sofa, he isn't saying so out loud.
In the end his best legal option may be to change his name to Clinton.
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