Clintons to Face Fraud Trial

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Bill Clinton Pardoned Drug Dealer Before
Christopher Ruddy
Wednesday, March 7, 2001
As NewsMax.com readers know, Bill and Hillary Clinton are the masters of extracting money and political benefit using their governmental positions.
Yesterday I wrote about how Bill Clinton quieted a political opponent who was making allegations that he had fathered a mulatto child of a Little Rock hooker named Bobbi Anne Williams.

The liberal media, who knew of this story, are dumbfounded that Bill and Hillary would sell presidential pardons to known fugitives and drug dealers.

As I have noted, Clinton learned well during his Arkansas days how to take care of himself, Hillary and his political friends.

How many Americans know that in 1990, as governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton pardoned a known drug dealer who dealt drugs to high school girls he regularly had sex with in his apartment.


The drug dealer's name is Dan Lasater. Lasater, who likes to correct people and say he was simply a drug "distributor" because he gave the nose candy away for free, was once a high-rolling bond dealer whose original fortune was made through the Ponderosa Steak House chain, which he founded and later sold at an immense profit.

Lasater was, of course, one of Clinton's biggest financial backers during the 1980s – a time when he was also the recipient of Arkansas state bond deals estimated at some $637 million.

During that period, Bill and Hillary Clinton enjoyed a close personal relationship with Lasater, traveling on his corporate jet and vacationing at Angel Fire, the financier's 17,000-acre New Mexico resort.

Lasater's meteoric financial rise took a nosedive in the late 1980s when he became a known cocaine user. (There are reports of his having openly dispensed it in bowls and ashtrays at parties. Some reports have Clinton at the parties as well.)

Lasater was eventually snared by federal authorities and in 1986 was convicted of cocaine distribution. He served six months of a 30-month sentence.

In 1990, Gov. Bill Clinton issued his friend a full pardon.

Though the origins of the Clinton-Lasater relationship are still murky, one version has it that their ties began at the Hot Springs, Ark., racetrack when Lasater met Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelley, an avid follower of racehorses, and Clinton's half-brother, Roger.

Roger Clinton – who would eventually meet the same fate as Lasater when he, too, would be convicted and incarcerated on drug charges – was given a job in the Lasater organization as Lasater's personal driver and "gofer."

Lasater, in turn, helped Roger pay off an $8,000 drug debt. Their relationship continues to this day. As an investigative reporter at the New York Post, I came across Lasater's name during a 1994 visit to Arkansas.

At the time, with Whitewater boiling over, Lasater was keeping a very low profile – so low that a June 1994 report on him in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette was wryly headlined "Address Unknown."

But his whereabouts were no secret to the residents of Paron, Ark., a sleepy hamlet in the Cockspur Mountains, some 35 miles from Little Rock. Residents told me that Dan Lasater, ensconced on a sprawling property there, was using their previously unnoticed little town as a hideaway.

Interestingly, that same property had ties with the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, in which Hillary Rodham Clinton was formerly a partner.

When I arrived in Arkansas during the late winter of 1994, the Paron property was said to be an additional presidential residence – the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, for example, reported it was rumored to be a "White House West" and contractors who worked on it whimsically tagged it "Camp Chelsea."

No doubt it would have been a suitable redoubt for the Clintons, considering the strange goings-on there.

Natives of this tiny village of 350, initially euphoric over the idea of a presidential retreat in their midst, became deeply concerned when unusual activities began taking place on the property they thought would be a presidential retreat. There were no UFOs, but there was a lot of suspicious aircraft activity.

"Everything is hush-hush," Paron postmistress Deanna Marbry told me at the time. "There has been some airplane activity, and it's scary to us."

Hoyt Hill, former fire chief of Paron, reported to me that his suspicions and those of his neighbors were aroused when the new owners of the property, identified on deed records as Southeast Investment Inc., purchased the heavily wooded 7,373-acre tract from International Paper Co. for $3.25 million.

Southeast abruptly made its presence known by padlocking the property's entrances – entrances that always had been open to neighbors. Neighbors also noted the new property owners brought in radio-toting armed guards, who patrolled the wooded, undeveloped land on special "four-wheeler" motorcycles. "Why guard timberland?" asked one Paron resident.

At the time of Southeast's purchase in March 1993, employees of the company told Charles Cooper, an adjoining property owner, that the Rose Law Firm had purchased the undeveloped land. Rose is among Little Rock's most prominent legal firms.

Besides Mrs. Clinton, partners have included former U.S. Associate Attorney General Webb Hubbell and the late Vincent Foster, who was deputy White House counsel. Despite Lasater's ties with Rose and with Mrs. Clinton, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Co. hired the Rose firm in an action it took against Lasater.

The agency, alleging improper activities between Lasater and Co. and an Illinois savings and loan company, sought $3.3 million from Lasater. Rose partners Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vincent Foster, in an apparent conflict of interest, were able to settle the case against Lasater & Co. for $200,000.

When construction of a mansion-like home began on the Paron property last year, signs were posted at the entrances ordering trespassers away.

Would-be violators were warned the owner was the "Cockspur Hunting Club." Simultaneously, residents said, there was an increase in low-flying airplanes over the property.

Unlike the military aircraft that occasionally fly over the area, these were "small Cessna-like" aircraft, according to Hill.

He said the planes would typically fly through a pass in the Cockspur Mountains on Southeast's property, several miles from the main road. "After the planes leave, 20 to 30 minutes will go by, and small trucks and Jeeps leave the property at two different entrances," said Hill.

He added that neighbors, during a flurry of aircraft activity, had logged the details, which they then passed on to federal authorities.

Capt. Gene Donhan of the sheriff's department of Saline County, where Paron is located, acknowledged that his department had also received such complaints from Paron residents but that he could not comment on them.

"We have passed the information to higher authorities," he said. He subsequently noted the complaints were directed to the Little Rock office of the Drug Enforcement Administration. These [Southeast] landowners are very secretive, and strange things go on," said neighbor Cooper. Cooper's home is approximately 150 yards from Southeast's newly built "hunting lodge."

Cooper, at the time, was in a court battle with Southeast concerning Southeast's blockage of an access road leading to his home. Cooper and other neighbors told me that, in reality, Dan Lasater was the owner of the property.

Cooper had met Lasater at the Southeast house, and Lasater was also frequently seen driving to the property or shopping at the local convenience store. The Little Rock telephone directory had no listing for Southeast Investment.

Roger Clinton was also a frequent visitor to the Southeast house, according to neighbors. Residents of Paron seemed befuddled as to Southeast's investment objectives and Lasater's involvement with the property, as well as with its ties to the Rose Law Firm.

Such curiosity was compounded when a representative of the Rose Law Firm made an offer to air-condition the local school. Gerald Johnson, who at that time had recently retired as Paron's school superintendent, said he informed the firm the school was already air-conditioned except for the gymnasium.

Johnson said the firm persisted in a "strange request" last winter to air-condition the gymnasium of the town's one school.

"The Rose Law Firm called us three or four times since then," Johnson recalled, somewhat baffled by the offer, since the school is not in session during the hot months of the summer.

At a school board meeting Johnson recommended that "we have nothing to do with it." "Maybe we'd reconsider if they wanted to expand our library," Johnson said.

So much for the Arkansas X-files.

Still, one has to ask why were Bill Clinton and his "reformed" brother associated with a character like Lasater?

What had drug distributor Lasater done to ever deserve a pardon?

These were good questions the press should have asked in 1992 when Bill Clinton first ran for president. They didn't, and decided to give a him free pass for eight years.
 
Newsmax eh?

It's always been the presidential perogative to pardon criminals. Clinton is hardly unique here.

Provided the price is right. Clinton brought a new meaning to "Show me the money!".
 
With all the engineered propaganda designed to sabotage the candidate best able to uphold the constitution it's just amazing how the main stream Bolshevik media has hardly reported on the Hollywood Peter Paul story.

All the murders, scandals and corruption of the Clintons it's just amazing how all this has escaped the media's attention in this campaign.

The communist bolshevik media is never to be trusted and has nothing to do with true journalism
 
Clintons to face fraud trial

Judge setting date, testimony to include ex-president, senator

While Hillary Clinton battles Barack Obama on the campaign trail, a judge in Los Angeles is quietly preparing to set a trial date in a $17 million fraud suit that aims to expose an alleged culture of widespread corruption by the Clintons and the Democratic Party.

At the conclusion of a hearing tomorrow morning before California Superior Court Judge Aurelio N. Munoz, lawyers for Hollywood mogul Peter F. Paul will begin seeking sworn testimony from all three Clintons – Bill, Hillary and Chelsea – along with top Democratic Party leaders and A-list celebrities, including Barbra Streisand, John Travolta, Brad Pitt and Cher.

Paul's team hopes for a trial in October. The Clintons' longtime lawyer David Kendall, who will attend the hearing, has declined comment on the suit.

The Clintons have tried to dismiss the case, but the California Supreme Court, in 2004, upheld a lower-court decision to deny the motion.


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