Roger Clinton Hit With Grand Jury Pardongate Subpoena!
Source: NewsMax.com
Published: 3/20/01 Author: Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Former first brother Roger Clinton has been subpoenaed to testify before a criminal grand jury investigating the Clinton White House's pardons-for-cash scandal, NewsMax.com has learned.
"The subpoena went out today," WABC Radio's John Batchelor revealed in an exclusive interview late Thursday. "Clinton has been summoned to appear at the federal courthouse in White Plains, New York, on April 4."
Prior to Thursday's subpoena, Roger Clinton had twice declined to answer written questions from the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee about pardons he requested from President Clinton and had yet to speak to law enforcement officials about the scandal.
On Feb. 27 Batchelor and radio partner Paul Alexander first revealed allegations made by a Texas family that Roger Clinton's name had been used to solicit payment for the promise of presidential clemency.
The family of Garland Lincecum, who is serving a seven-year sentence for fraud in an Oklahoma federal penitentiary, produced canceled checks made out to the Arkansas firm of CLM LLC in the amount of $235,000. Lincecum was tranferred to a more secure location Wednesday night, just hours before the Clinton subpoena went out.
Initially, the first former brother told reporters through a spokeswoman that he had nothing to do with CLM. But two weeks ago company partner Dickie Morton contradicted that denial, saying company records would prove otherwise.
Morton and a third partner, George E. "Butch" Locke - a former Arkansas state senator who did prison time with Roger on a 1985 cocaine rap - have also been also subpoenaed, Batchelor told NewsMax.com.
A thus far unidentified witness who says he arranged a fall 1998 face-to-face meeting between Roger and the Lincecums is also believed to be on the Pardongate subpoena list. Last week Batchelor and Alexander reported that records of first class airline tickets would place Clinton in Texas at the time of the alleged meeting.
The Lincecum family is represented by New York lawyer Ed Hayes, a frequent guest on Batchelor and Alexander's WABC radio show.
According to Hayes, the case is now "as hot as you want to get."
Attorney General John Ashcroft handed jurisdiction for the Pardongate probe to U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District Mary Jo White in February. But it's believed that White will assume a figurehead role, with take-no-prisoners prosecutor Elliott Jacobson doing most of the heavy lifting.
If true, it's partuclarly bad news for Roger Clinton. While busting complex white collar criminal conspiracy cases, Jacobson has earned the nickname "Mad Dog" for his tenacity.
"[Jacobson] is a very zealous, smart, committed, relatively tough guy," former prosecutor Martin Auerbach, who handled Marc Rich's criminal case, told the New York Post on Sunday. "He will not be easily deterred."
"Jacobson was put on this case for one reason - to get these people," another source told NewsMax.
HENCH adds: Do I hear a fat little piggy starting to squeal as his tailed gets pulled?
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