Pardongate: How Bill & Hillary Clinton and Their Brothers Profited from Pardons

by Mark Hyman, R. Emmett "Bob" Tyrrell, Jr. (Foreword by)

Overview

A shocking exposé of the Bill Clinton pardons and commutations issued after Hillary Clinton made it known she was running for the US Senate.

Bill Clinton’s abrupt departure from long-standing precedent was an astonishing abuse of the Justice Department processes and underscored the shady wheeling and dealing that was common in the Clinton orbit. Bill, Hillary, and brothers Roger Clinton, Hugh Rodham, and Tony Rodham all profited financially or politically from hustling dozens of pardons to some of history’s most undeserving recipients. These ranged from worldwide pariah Marc Rich, to a cocaine trafficking kingpin, to murderous terrorists who hadn’t even requested executive clemency.

A third of the final-day pardons bypassed Justice Department review and went straight to Bill for approval. Dozens of recipients hadn’t even filed a petition. In the final hours of Bill Clinton’s last day in office, the pardon attorney was frantically preparing paperwork for recipients whose names were misspelled or whose addresses were unknown. It was a free-for-all.

The brothers were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to privately lobby Bill for pardons, some of which never materialized. But the brothers were still paid. Hillary collected political and financial IOUs she later cashed in when she sought political office. For most of his presidency, Bill was one of the stingiest presidents of all time when it came to the awarding official forgiveness to felons, but the pardon floodgates opened when Hillary began her run for the US Senate.

It was the selling of pardons for money and influence that launched the Clintons’ nearly two-decade pay-for-play scheme—a scheme that not only amassed billions of dollars for the Clinton Foundation and hundreds of millions of dollars for the Clintons, but also catapulted Hillary into a presidential front-runner. Pardongate reveals details of the Clinton machine that will leave even the most informed citizens appalled.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642936285
Publisher:	Post Hill Press
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Mark Hyman is an Emmy Award-winning, investigative journalist who knows how to get the critical details of a story. In more than forty years, his life experiences include naval officer, veteran, intelligence officer, weapons inspector, Congressional Fellow, lobbyist, business executive, writer, radio personality, television host, and investigative journalist.

Whether it was inspecting Soviet-made weapons systems, reporting from a war zone, walking the halls of Congress, or one of his other many life experiences, Mark has gained keen insight into what constitutes a great story that must be told. What sets his storytelling apart from others is that he adds context, when appropriate, so the readers not only learn the who, what, when, and where, but also the why.

Table of Contents

A Note to the Reader ix

Foreword x

Preface xv

Chapter 1 History, Process, and Controversies 1

Chapter 2 Cronies 23

Chapter 3 Crooks and Other Miscreants 40

Chapter 4 Drug Dealers 60

Chapter 5 Arkansans and Whitewater Associates 79

Chapter 6 Christmas Clemencies 105

Chapter 7 Hugh Rodham, the Drug Kingpin, and the Huckster 132

Chapter 8 Tony Rodham's Circus Act 157

Chapter 9 Roger Clinton and the Heroin Trafficker 171

Chapter 10 The Puerto Rican Terrorists 190

Chapter 11 The New Square Swindlers 220

Chapter 12 The Billionaire Fugitive 240

Chapter 13 The Black Liberation Army 264

Endnotes 293

Acknowledgments 343

About the Author 345