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Topic: Hugh Rodham


  
  AllPolitics - Candidates - Democrats
Hugh Rodham, Hillary's father, died on April 7, 1993 at the age of 82.
Hugh Rodham was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to British immigrants and played football for Penn State University.
Hugh met his future wife, Maria Victoria Arias, a Cuban immigrant, when she was a college intern at the Miami public defender's office.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/democrat/clinton/rodham.shtml   (864 words)

  
 Random House Academic Resources | Hillary's Choice by Gail Sheehy
Hugh Rodham, her driven father, wanted the finest house he could afford, although he was too scarred by the Depression to take out a mortgage.
Hugh Rodham commuted to Chicago, the same as his neighbors, and drove home at dusk, the same as his neighbors, but he was not a professional.
You can be whatever you want to be." Their son Hugh went to work in a Scranton lace mill at the age of thirteen and stayed for the next half century, becoming a pillar of Republican respectability and the father of three sons.
www.randomhouse.com /acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345436566&view=excerpt   (1267 words)

  
 COURT TV ONLINE - TOP NEWS
Rodham contacted Clinton's closest adviser in the White House, Bruce Lindsey, at least once in connection with one of the cases, which involved a major political contributor's son convicted on drug charges, legal sources said.
The source said Clinton didn't know Rodham was working on behalf of the two pardon applicants and the decisions on both men were made on the merits of their situations.
Hugh Rodham and his brother, Tony, generated controversy once before when they became involved in a business deal supported by an opposition leader in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
www.courttv.com /news/2001/0222/clinton_ap.html   (1069 words)

  
 Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 25, 1947, in a Park Ridge, Illinois, suburb to Dorothy and Hugh Rodham.
Hugh, a former Army drill sergeant, provided a disciplined environment in which Hillary earned every possible Girl Scout badge, was involved in the youth group of the local Methodist church, a member of the National Honor Society, and was a student leader.
Rodham Clinton was wrongly accused of a conflict of interest when it was revealed in 1979 that a $1,000 investment in cattle futures had generated a $100,000 return when she ceased trading 10 months later.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2044.html   (2343 words)

  
 CNN.com - Life with baby Hughie - March 5, 2001
Hugh was known to steal off to McDonald's or organize family outings from Camp David to the Cozy Restaurant in nearby Thurmont, Md., for a fix of fries.
During impeachment, a friend recalls, Hugh pictured himself as the one who, for once, could come to Hillary's rescue from the vast right-wing conspiracy that she alluded to in a TV interview amid the Lewinsky scandal.
At her press conference after Hugh's payment was exposed, Hillary, used to separating herself from her husband's recklessness, separated herself from her brother's, doing it so harshly that a friend said, if Hughie were watching, he would be "suicidal." More than the money, what he has always wanted was her praise.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/time/2001/03/05/hughie.html   (1308 words)

  
 Politics thicker than blood? Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rodham's role in obtaining a pardon for Almon Glenn Braswell, convicted of mail fraud, and a prison release for cocaine dealer Carlos Vignali will be the subject of a House Governmental Reform Committee hearing March 1.
Hugh Rodham, 50, named for his father, is the middle of the three Rodham children, a bear of a man with a passion for golf that matches his brother-in-law and links partner, the former president.
Rodham quit his job as a public defender to run for the U.S. Senate in 1994, a long-shot bid that seemed prompted in part by his association with the president.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20010223/ai_n13900533   (830 words)

  
 Salon.com People | Fat chance
The Hugh Rodham story is about more than hubris, injustice and stupidity; at the periphery, far from the substantive themes, the story is also about Rodham's appearance.
Rodham's involvement in Clinton's pardon mistakes is embarrassing; the image of his involvement is depressing.
Rodham will presumably drop from the headlines in a few days, forever fixed with the few details we were able to seize upon.
archive.salon.com /people/feature/2001/02/23/rodham/print.html   (865 words)

  
 Capitol Hill Blue: Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rodham left his career as an assistant public defender to launch a series of unsuccessful career moves in in the shadow of his brother-in-law's presidency.
The Rodhams were hosted by a local political boss who was depicted by the CIA as a mobster as well as a rival of Georgia's President Eduard Shevardnadze, a close U.S. ally.
In her public reproach, the 53-year-old Senator Clinton noted that Hugh, who is two years her junior, was a frequent visitor to her home even as she took pains to draw a line of separation between them, including disclosing the fact that she had not spoken to him since discovering the pardon-related payments.
www.capitolhillblue.com /Article.asp?ID=1303   (892 words)

  
 Hillary Clinton's Family
Hillary Rodham was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 26, 1947.
She has two younger brothers, Hugh and Tony, and is the daughter of Dorothy Rodham and the late Hugh Rodham.
Hugh Rodham died on April 7, 1993 at the age of 82.
www.hillary-rodham-clinton.org /family.html   (515 words)

  
 Worldandnation: Mrs. Clinton's brother got paid for pardons
Hugh Rodham, Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother, received about $400,000 for helping pave the way for a pardon for Glenn Braswell, a wealthy herbal supplement marketer convicted of fraud and tax evasion, and a prison commutation for Carlos Vignali, who was serving time on drug charges, Nancy Luque, Rodham's Washington attorney, confirmed Wednesday.
Rodham's role in Clinton's controversial final days is the latest development in a story that has prompted up to three congressional investigations and enraged Democrats who think Clinton has squandered whatever good will he took with him after eight years in the White House.
Rodham worked on Braswell's last-minute request for just a couple of weeks and worked on the Vignali case for several months, AP reported.
www.sptimes.com /News/022201/news_pf/Worldandnation/Mrs_Clinton_s_brother.shtml   (982 words)

  
 The Conservative Newsletter
A client of ex-first brother-in-law Hugh Rodham, who sought a presidential pardon for herself and her husband in January, donated $2,000 to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign, the legal watchdog group Judicial Watch revealed Monday.
Hugh was sleeping in the White House at the time he lobbied for these pardons.
The perception of even DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe is that Hugh Rodham was paid $400,000 not to do legal work but rather "to influence improperly a government official" by virtue of his relationship with that official.
www.wilderness-cry.net /tcn/2001/feb27a.html   (3048 words)

  
 Hillary Rodham Clinton - Congresspedia
Hillary Rodham was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in a Methodist family in Park Ridge, Illinois.
Her father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, a conservative, was an executive in the textile industry, and her mother, Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham, was a homemaker.
After President Richard M. Nixon resigned in August of 1974, Rodham became a faculty member (one of only two women in the faculty) at the University of Arkansas Law School, located in Fayetteville, where her Yale Law School classmate and boyfriend Bill Clinton was teaching as well.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Hillary_Rodham_Clinton   (4349 words)

  
 CNN.com - Hillary Clinton again denies role in commutation - August 9, 2001
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton stands by earlier statements that she knew nothing of her brother Hugh Rodham's efforts to gain a commutation for a convicted cocaine dealer, a spokesman for the senator said Wednesday.
"Hugh says this is very important to him and the first lady as well as others," the memo reads.
Rodham, an attorney, has admitted he was paid $204,000 by the family of Carlos Vignali.
archives.cnn.com /2001/ALLPOLITICS/08/08/rodham.clinton   (426 words)

  
 Hillary Clinton's Brother Was Paid for Role in 2 Pardons (washingtonpost.com)
Rodham's attorney, Nancy Luque, said in a statement that Rodham did nothing wrong and did not discuss the pardon petitions directly with the president.
Hugh Rodham and brother Tony Rodham previously caused trouble for Bill and Hillary Clinton over a scheme to export hazelnuts from the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
Rodham's involvement is likely to fuel further criticism that special access and political connections played a role in many of the 176 clemency grants made by Clinton in the hours before he departed the White House.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A36916-2001Feb21¬Found=true   (1154 words)

  
 Essential Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Recent news reports indicate that your brother-in-law, Hugh Rodham, is part of the coalition of plaintiff's lawyers now negotiating with the tobacco industry.
Rodham has met or communicated regularly with Bruce Lindsey, your White House associate who is serving as the White House point person on the tobacco settlement talks.
Rodham has not previously been known to be heavily involved in tobacco litigation nor in product liability practice.
www.essentialaction.org /tobacco/clinton.html   (278 words)

  
 TIME.com Print Page: Nation-Politics -- The Rumpled, Ragtag Career of Hugh Rodham
Hillary Rodham Clinton's jowly brother Hugh faced a nation of raised eyebrows Thursday for his part in two successful pardon pleas.
Hugh's salad days were short; Bill and Hillary demanded that he return the cash, and he obliged quickly.
Months later, Hugh and Tony were back in the headlines — the brothers reportedly thought it might be OK if they stopped actually growing the nuts and just kept exporting them.
www.time.com /time/nation/printout/0,8816,100329,00.html   (573 words)

  
 The Gainesville Sun 1994 Voter Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Unfortunately for Hugh Rodham, only about 250 people came to see him with his brother-in-law, a turnout that tells the tale of the Senate contest.
Rodham, a political novice who needed a runoff to defeat an eccentric foe, has not mounted anything close to the campaign firepower needed to pose a credible challenge to popular GOP incumbent Connie Mack.
Rodham, 44, a former Dade County assistant public defender, criticizes Mack as being out of touch with the concern s of ordinary Florida residents, citing his votes against gun control, family and medical leave and the new education bill as examples where Mack strayed.
www.afn.org /~sun/elect/ussenate.htm   (738 words)

  
 Hillary Clinton's Other Brother Also Lobbied for Pardon
But Rodham does have a financial tie to the Gregorys and has been a consultant for Edgar Gregory for about seven years, helping him buy radio stations and expand his carnival business, which is based in Smyrna, Tenn., a suburb of Nashville.
Rodham is the third Clinton relative to be involved in pardon decisions.
Hugh Rodham returned nearly $400,000 in payments he received for his work.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/01/MN142612.DTL   (576 words)

  
 CNN Transcript - Morning News: Pardons Involving Hugh Rodham Could Reignite Controversy - February 22, 2001
Hugh Rodham, the brother of Hillary Rodham Clinton and an attorney was paid this money for working on two cases: one, the commutation of the sentence of Carlos Vignali; he was convicted and serving time for transporting 800 pounds of cocaine.
President Clinton also issued a statement; his statement said, yesterday, that would be Tuesday: "I became aware of press inquiries that Hugh Rodham received a contingency fee in connection with the pardon application by Glenn Braswell and a fee for work on the Carlos Vignali commutation application.
Rodham to please list anyone that he helped get a pardon for and asking him to outline what kind of money he received for those services, who he was in contact with at the White House -- and that's a particularly relevant question that many people would like to see answered.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0102/22/mn.06.html   (650 words)

  
 Hugh Rodham pardon pay: $400,000 [Free Republic]
Hugh Rodham, Miami-area attorney and brother-in-law to former President Bill Clinton, was paid for successfully lobbying for a presidential pardon of Glenn Braswell, a multimillionaire with a bayfront home in Coconut Grove who is the target of an ongoing federal investigation of alleged tax evasion and money laundering in California.
Clayton Reed Kaeiser, a former law partner of Rodham, said it is not unusual for someone seeking a pardon to hire a lobbyist or lawyer.
Hugh and Tony Rodham are Bill Clinton's in-laws, a connection that's brought them pain and gain Tony says he and Hugh are no Billy Carter.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a94d6fa0866.htm   (1538 words)

  
 Clinton Relative Returns 'Pardon Money' -- 02/22/2001
Varoius analysts accustomed to parsing the president's language note that he did not say whether Hugh Rodham discussed the clemency petitions with him.
Hillary Rodham Clinton also released a statement saying she was "very disturbed'' to learn of the fees paid to her brother, who is a lawyer.
Rodham to give us all the details of whom he represented and how much he was paid," said Burton, whose committee already is probing Clinton's controversial pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich.
www.cnsnews.com /ViewPrint.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200102\POL20010222c.html   (457 words)

  
 Byron York on NRO
At least with Braswell, Rodham had a deal which provided for him to be paid a "success fee" if a pardon was actually delivered.
It was, and Rodham collected $200,000 from Braswell, to go with the $200,000 he had already gotten from Vignali.
For his part, Rodham's lawyer Nancy Luque — familiar to the Burton committee as the attorney for convicted campaign-finance felon Maria Hsia — released a statement saying Rodham "did not advise President or Senator Clinton of his involvement in these requests.
www.nationalreview.com /york/york022201.shtml   (923 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Clinton brother-in-law returns pardon money   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rodham, the brother of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., was paid for helping win the prison commutation request of convicted drug dealer Carlos Vignali and the pardon of businessman Almon Glenn Braswell, who was convicted for perjury and tax evasion.
Rodham's lawyer, Nancy Luque, said he returned the money Wednesday at the Clintons' request "because of the appearance of impropriety" although there was "no impropriety in these matters."
Rodham's actions will be investigated by the House Government Reform Committee, one of two congressional panels already examining Clinton's controversial pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2001-02-21-clintoninlaw.htm   (307 words)

  
 Archive | February 26, 2001 | Tidbits
A legal source told various media that Rodham had been paid $400,000 for his work in both cases and that most of it had been returned.
While spokesmen for two congressional committees investigating another of Clinton's pardons said Rodham's involvement in the latest cases was not illegal, Burton said the revelation raised new questions.
A source close to Clinton, speaking on condition of anonymity, said then-White House adviser Bruce Lindsey had been contacted and was aware of Rodham's involvement with the Vignali request but no White House officials were aware of the presidential relative's involvement in the Braswell matter.
www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0301tidbits2.htm   (2581 words)

  
 Hillary may have to hide her brothers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rodham and lawyers involved in the pardon said today.
It might remind voters how her brother Hugh Rodham had taken $400,000 in exchange for getting other people pardoned.
After all, Hugh and Tony were close enough to go on the Clintons’ honeymoon with them.
www.canadafreepress.com /2006/bates082306.htm   (728 words)

  
 Nepotism: From "Gladiator" to the Clinton Clan by Steve Sailer for UPI; Hugh Rodham, Donald Nixon, Bobby ...
Close on the heels of revelations that Hugh Rodham received $400,000 for securing pardons from his brother-in-law Bill Clinton comes news of another ex-Presidential brother-in-law's pardon request.
Over the strong objections of the Justice Department, Tony Rodham successfully lobbied for a Presidential pardon for two carnival operators to whom he has a financial tie.
Rodham, a consultant, is also the brother of New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and the son-in-law of California Senator Barbara Boxer.
www.isteve.com /2001_Nepotism_from_Gladiator_to_Clintons.htm   (988 words)

  
 Hugh Rodham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
is an American businessman and politician who is the brother of New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Rodham is the son of Hugh Rodham, Sr.
Rodham ran for the United States Senate in Florida in 1994, winning the Democratic Party nomination but losing by a wide margin to Republican Connie Mack in the general election.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugh_Rodham   (119 words)

  
 Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham is the mother of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
In 1937 she moved to Chicago where she married Hugh Ellsworth Rodham in 1942.
In 1987, Hugh and Dorothy Rodham moved to Little Rock, Arkansas to be closer to their daughter; Hugh died in 1993.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dorothy_Emma_Howell_Rodham   (174 words)

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