Clinton Pardons Brother, Business Partner, Former Cabinet Official
Saturday, January 20, 2001


Hours before his presidency ended on Saturday, Bill Clinton pardoned former Whitewater business partner Susan McDougal, brother Roger Clinton and former CIA Director John Deutch — granting clemency to a total of 140 Americans.


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Susan McDougal
Other noteworthies pardoned were Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros, found guilty of making illegal payments to an ex-mistress; Patty Hearst, the 1970s kidnapping victim who later went to prison in connection with a bank robbery; and Navaho Nation chief Peter MacDonald. Another pardon was granted to former Arizona Governor Fife Symington, forced out of office after being convicted of bank and wire fraud.
The names that didn't make the list were as notable as those that did.
Among them: Webster Hubbell, a former law partner of Hillary Rodham Clinton; Jonathan Pollard, a former Navy analyst imprisoned for spying for Israel; one-time Wall Street financier Michael Milken; and Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents on an Indian reservation in 1975.
McDougal's pardon came just a day after the Whitewater investigation finally concluded, thanks to a deal Clinton made with special prosecutor Robert Ray. The outgoing president gave up his Arkansas law license for five years and admitted to giving false testimony under oath in the Monica Lewinsky case in return for an agreement by Ray not to indict him.
"She's absolutely delighted," said McDougal's lawyer, Mark Geragos. "She is speechless for once in her life. And I think it is especially poignant that it was one of the last acts of Bill Clinton's administration."
McDougal went to prison to forgo testifying in the Whitewater investigation.
Convicted at a 1996 trial where Clinton gave testimony in her defense, McDougal remained an unabashed supporter of the president, appearing on national television in her orange prison jumpsuit to insist that Clinton never engaged in illegal loans or other improper conduct as prosecutors in Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office sought to prove.
Her former husband, failed Arkansas savings and loan operator James McDougal, also was convicted at the same trial but took a markedly different path. He chose to cooperate with Starr's office and implicated the Clintons in wrongdoing before his sudden death in prison.
Susan McDougal never wavered, embarking on a campaign to portray the Starr as a politically motivated Republican who was on a "personal vendetta" to pursue the Clintons at the expense of revealing the truth. Starr and his staff repeatedly denied those allegations.
She served just 3 1/2 months of a two-year prison term for her four felony convictions before a federal judge released her because of a back problem.
But her freedom was short-lived. She defied a judge's order to answer Whitewater prosecutor's questions before a federal grand jury and was returned to jail for 18 months for civil contempt.
Frustrated that McDougal still refused to cooperate, Starr's office decided to prosecute her on criminal contempt charges for obstructing the grand jury investigation. The jury deadlocked, and prosecutors chose not to retry her.
Roger Clinton was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty in 1985 to conspiring to distribute cocaine. He cooperated with authorities and testified against other drug defendants.
He has since focused on an entertainment career. The president was best man at his brother's wedding back in the mid-1990s.

Deutch's pardon spares the one-time spy chief and top Pentagon official from facing a criminal trial for his mishandling of national secrets on a home computer.
Deutch had been considering a deal with the Justice Department in which he would plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of keeping classified data on his home computers.
He got in trouble as he resigned as CIA director in 1996, when agency security officials learned he had written and stored highly classified intelligence reports on home computers linked to the Internet.
Deutch publicly apologized. Pentagon officials later discovered Deutch had similar lapses in security during his tenure as the No. 2 defense official.
Cisneros was Clinton's first housing secretary. He resigned in 1996 amid an investigation into allegations that he lied to the FBI about payments he made to a former mistress, Linda Medlar. In 1999, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge.
Since leaving office, Cisneros served as head of Univision, the nation's largest Spanish-language television network. Last year, he returned to his native San Antonio to launch an organization to provide housing for low-income families.
At age 19, Hearst was kidnapped in the 1970s by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army. She later served part of a prison sentence for a bank holdup in San Francisco before it was commuted by President Carter. She is married to her former bodyguard, Bernard Shaw.
MacDonald, 72, the former leader of the Navajo Nation, has been in a Fort Worth, Texas, medical prison since his 1992 sentencing for his role in a Window Rock, Ariz., riot that resulted in the deaths of two of his supporters in 1989.
MacDonald was removed from office for taking bribes and kickbacks. The two supporters were killed on July 20, 1989, by tribal police during a march to protest what they considered a coup against their leader. MacDonald, his health deteriorating, has been serving a 14-year sentence for inciting the deadly riot.
—The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/012001/clinton_pardon.sml 

Clinton Pardon's List
The Associated Press
Saturday, Jan. 20, 2001; 1:52 p.m. EST
A list of the people pardoned or commuted Saturday before President Clinton left office, as released by the White House:

COMMUTATIONS:
Benjamin Berger
Ronald Henderson Blackley
Bert Wayne Bolan
Gloria Libia Camargo
Charles F. Campbell
David Ronald Chandler
Lau Ching Chin
Donald R. Clark
Loreta De-Ann Coffman
Derrick Curry
Velinda Desalus
Jacob Elbaum
Linda Sue Evans
Loretta Sharon Fish
Antoinette M. Frink
David Goldstein
Gerard A. Greenfield
Jodie E. Israel
Kimberly Johnson
Billy Thornton Langston Jr.
Belinda Lynn Lumpkin
Peter MacDonald
Kellie Ann Mann
Peter Ninemire
Hugh Ricardo Padmore
Arnold Paul Prosperi
Melvin J. Reynolds
Pedro Miguel Riveiro
Dorothy Rivers
Susan Rosenberg
Kalmen Stern
Cory Stringfellow
Carlo Anibal Vignali Jr.
Thomas Wilson Waddell III
Harvey Weinig
Kim Allen Willis

PARDONS:
Verla Jean Allen
Nicholas M. Altiere
Bernice Ruth Altschul
Joe Anderson Jr.
William Sterling Anderson
Mansour Azizkhani
Cleveland Victor Babin Jr.
Chris Harmon Bagley
Scott Lynn Bane
Thomas Cleveland Barber
Peggy Ann Bargon
David Roscoe Blampied
William Arthur Borders Jr.
Arthur David Borel
Douglas Chrles Borel
George Thomas Brabham
Almon Glenn Braswell
Leonard Browder
David Steven Brown
Delores Caroylene Burleson, aka Delores Cox Burleson
John H. Bustamante
Mary Louise Campbell
Eloida Candelaria
Dennis Sobrevinas Capili
Donna Denise Chambers
Douglas Eugene Chapman
Ronald Keith Chapman
Francisco Larois Chavez
Henry G. Cisneros
Roger Clinton
Stuart Harris Cohn
David Marc Cooper
Ernest Harley Cox Jr.
John F. Cross Jr.
Reickey Lee Cunningham
Richard Anthony De Labio
John Deutch
Richard Douglas
Edward Reynolds Downe
Marvin Dean Dudley
Larry Lee Duncan
Robert Clinton Fain
Marcos Arcenio Fernandez
Alvarez Ferrouillet
William Dennis Fugazy
Lloyd Reid George
Louis Goldstein
Rubye Lee Gordon
Pincus Green
Robert Ivey Hamner
Samuel Price Handley
Woodie Randolph Handley
Jay Houston Harmon
John Hummingson
David S. Herdlinger
Debi Rae Huckleberry
Donald Ray James
Stanley Pruet Jobe
Ruben H. Johnson
Linda Jones
James Howard Lake
June Louise Lewis
Salim Bonnor Lewis
John Leighton Lodwick
Hildebrando Lopez
Jose Julio Luaces
James Timothy Maness
James Lowell Manning
John Robert Martin
Frank Ayala Martinez
Silvia Leticia Beltran Martinez
John Francis McCormick
Susan H. McDougal
Howard Lawrence Mechanic
Brook K. Mitchell Sr.
Samuel Loring Morison
Charles Wilfred Morgan III
Richard Anthony Nazzaro
Charlene Ann Nosenko
Vernon Raymond Obermeier
Miguelina Ogalde
David C. Owen
Robert W. Palmer
Kelli Anne Perhosky
Richard H. Pezzopane
Orville Rex Phillips
Vinson Stewart Poling Jr.
Norman Lyle Prouse
Willie H.H. Pruitt Jr.
Danny Martin Pursley Sr.
Charles D. Ravenel
William Clyde Ray
Alfredo Luna Regalado
Ildefonso Reynes Ricafort
Marc Rich
Howard Winfield Riddle
Richard Wilson Riley Jr.
Samuel Lee Robbins
Joel Gonzales Rodriguez
Michael James Rogers
Anna Louise Ross
Gerald Glen Rust
Jerri Ann Rust
Bettye June Rutherford
Gregory Lee Sands
Adolph Schwimmer
Albert A. Seretti Jr.
Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw
Dennis Joseph Smith
Gerald Owen Smith
Stephen A. Smith
Jimmie Lee Speake
Charles Bernard Stewart
Marlena Francisca Stewart-Rollins
John Fife Symington III
Richard Lee Tannehill
Nicholas C. Tenaglia
Gary Allen Thomas
Larry Weldon Todd
Olga C. Trevino
Ignatious Vamvouklis
Patricia A. Van De Weerd
Christopher V. Wade
Bill Wayne Warmath
Jack Kenneth Watson
Donna Lynn Webb
Donald William Wells
Robert H. Wendt
Jack L. Williams
Kavin Arthur Williams
Robert Michael Williams
Jimmie Lee Wilson
Thelma Louise Wingate
Mitchell Couey Wood
Warren Stannard Wood
Dewey Worthey
Rick Allen Yale
Joseph A. Yasak
William Stanley Yingling
Phillip David Young
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010120/aponline135239_000.htm 

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