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U.S. pardon probers eyeing Roger Clinton - report
WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - A federal investigation of former President Bill Clinton's last-minute pardons has heard allegations that his half-brother, Roger, accepted cash for promised efforts to obtain not only a pardon but also diplomatic passports, Newsweek reported on Saturday.
Garland Lincecum, a Texan convicted of investment fraud, told a federal grand jury in New York earlier this month that his family had paid $235,000 to two associates of Roger Clinton's on the understanding that he would lobby the president for a pardon, the magazine said on its Web site.
It said Lincecum's name was not on a list of six that Clinton gave his brother for consideration. None of the people on that list was, in fact, pardoned.
The Lincecum allegation was originally reported in April. New, however, is a second accusation: that Roger Clinton was involved in a scheme to obtain diplomatic passports.
Newsweek said that Richard Cayce, an alternative-medicine salesman and a friend of Lincecum's lawyer, told the grand jury that he had paid Clinton and his associates $100,000 for help in obtaining the passports, with which he hoped to impress foreigners.
Cayce never got the passports, Newsweek said.
It quoted Clinton's lawyer, Bart Williams, as saying that his client had met with Cayce twice but not with Lincecum. Clinton denies seeking or receiving money for either passports or pardons, Williams said.
Bill Clinton granted clemency or pardons to 177 people on Jan. 20, his last day as president. The U.S. attorney for New York, Mary Jo White, opened a probe of his actions to determine whether fugitive financier Marc Rich bought his pardon with political donations and gifts that his former wife gave the president, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Democratic Party.
WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - A federal investigation of former President Bill Clinton's last-minute pardons has heard allegations that his half-brother, Roger, accepted cash for promised efforts to obtain not only a pardon but also diplomatic passports, Newsweek reported on Saturday.
Garland Lincecum, a Texan convicted of investment fraud, told a federal grand jury in New York earlier this month that his family had paid $235,000 to two associates of Roger Clinton's on the understanding that he would lobby the president for a pardon, the magazine said on its Web site.
It said Lincecum's name was not on a list of six that Clinton gave his brother for consideration. None of the people on that list was, in fact, pardoned.
The Lincecum allegation was originally reported in April. New, however, is a second accusation: that Roger Clinton was involved in a scheme to obtain diplomatic passports.
Newsweek said that Richard Cayce, an alternative-medicine salesman and a friend of Lincecum's lawyer, told the grand jury that he had paid Clinton and his associates $100,000 for help in obtaining the passports, with which he hoped to impress foreigners.
Cayce never got the passports, Newsweek said.
It quoted Clinton's lawyer, Bart Williams, as saying that his client had met with Cayce twice but not with Lincecum. Clinton denies seeking or receiving money for either passports or pardons, Williams said.
Bill Clinton granted clemency or pardons to 177 people on Jan. 20, his last day as president. The U.S. attorney for New York, Mary Jo White, opened a probe of his actions to determine whether fugitive financier Marc Rich bought his pardon with political donations and gifts that his former wife gave the president, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Democratic Party.
