The Clinton Legacy:
Records Set during the Clinton presidency.
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- Second president accused of rape**
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad and like
the everyready battery bunny still going and going and going.
CRIME STATS
- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton
machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
- Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth
Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of
foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122
CAMPAIGN FINANCE INVESTIGATION
- As of June 2000, the Justice Department listed 25 people indicted and
19 convicted because of the 1996 Clinton-Gore fundraising scandals.
- According to the House Committee on Government Reform in September
2000, 79 House and Senate witnesses asserted the Fifth Amendment in the
course of investigations into Gore's last fundraising campaign.
-James Riady entered a plea agreement to pay an $8.5 million fine for
campaign finance crimes. This was a record under campaign finance laws.
CLINTON MACHINE CRIMES FOR WHICH CONVICTIONS WERE OBTAINED
Drug trafficking (3), racketeering, extortion, bribery (4), tax evasion,
kickbacks, embezzlement (2), fraud (12), conspiracy (5), fraudulent
loans, illegal gifts (1), illegal campaign contributions (5), money
laundering (6), perjury, obstruction of justice
OTHER MATTERS INVESTIGATED BY SPECIAL PROSECUTORS AND CONGRESS, OR REPORTED IN THE MEDIA
Bank and mail fraud, violations of campaign finance laws, illegal
foreign campaign funding, improper exports of sensitive technology,
physical violence and threats of violence, solicitation of perjury,
intimidation of witnesses, bribery of witnesses, attempted intimidation
of prosecutors, perjury before congressional committees, lying in
statements to federal investigators and regulatory officials, flight of
witnesses, obstruction of justice, bribery of cabinet members, real
estate fraud, tax fraud, drug trafficking, failure to investigate drug
trafficking, bribery of state officials, use of state police for
personal purposes, exchange of promotions or benefits for sexual favors,
using state police to provide false court testimony, laundering of drug
money through a state agency, false reports by medical examiners and
others investigating suspicious deaths, the firing of the RTC and FBI
director when these agencies were investigating Clinton and his
associates, failure to conduct autopsies in suspicious deaths, providing
jobs in return for silence by witnesses, drug abuse, improper
acquisition and use of 900 FBI files, improper futures trading, murder,
sexual abuse of employees, false testimony before a federal judge,
shredding of documents, withholding and concealment of subpoenaed
documents, fabricated charges against (and improper firing of) White
House employees, inviting drug traffickers, foreign agents and
participants in organized crime to the White House.
Clinton was kicked out of Oxford for rape. This has been very hushed
over but if you do the legwork it's there.
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