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Statistics of the Clinton Co-Presidency

October 11, 2007 · 1 Comment

Found this over at FreeRepublic.com.  Is this really what we want back in the White House?  I couldn’t fact check them all but did a few and it appears to be accurate…

▪ 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.
▪ First president accused of rape.
▪ First president to be held in contempt of court.
▪ First president to be impeached for personal malfeasance.
▪ First first lady to come under criminal investigation.
▪ Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign-contribution case.
▪ Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions.
▪ Number of Starr-Ray investigation convictions or guilty pleas to date: one governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton business partners: 14.
▪ Number of Cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 5.
▪ Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine that were 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 pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122.
▪ Guilty pleas and convictions obtained by Donald Smaltz in cases involving charges of bribery and fraud against former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and associated individuals and businesses: 15;
acquitted or overturned cases (including Espy): 6.
▪ 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, et al.
▪ Number of times that Clinton figures who testified in court or before Congress said that they didn’t remember, didn’t know, or something similar:
Bill Kennedy, 116;
Harold Ickes, 148;
Ricki Seidman, 160;
Bruce Lindsey, 161;
Bill Burton, 191;
Mark Gearan, 221;
Mack McLarty, 233;
Neil Egglseston, 250;
John Podesta, 264;
Jennifer O’Connor, 343;
Dwight Holton 348;
Patsy Thomasson, 420;
Jeff Eller, 697;
and Hillary Clinton, 250.

Yikes!

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