Global Crossing CEO Partied with Clinton
NewsMax.com
Tuesday Feb. 12, 2002; 10:05 p.m. EST
Ex-President Bill Clinton is said to have invited Global Crossing CEO Gary Winnick to his Super Bowl party last week, according to Tuesday's New York Post Page Six.
That would have been just about the same time questions began to swirl about Winnick's donations to Clinton and possible insider given to Democratic Party chief Terry McAuliffe before Crossing collapsed last month.
McAuliffe pocketed a nifty 18,000 percent profit on his $100,000 investment. But less well know is the fact that Clinton collected a million dollar pledge from the telecommunications high-roller for his presidential library.
That little detail begs the question, was last week's Clinton-Winnick meeting merely a casual get together? Or was it a strategy session prompted by gathering scandal clouds.
Some recall how in 1993 Clinton invited then-Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker to the White House as the Whitewater scandal began to heat up. Aides insisted at the time that the imbroglio was the furthest thing from Clinton's mind as he and Tucker met.
Three years later, Tucker was convicted on Whitewater charges and subsequently refused to implicate Clinton in any wrongdoing. (Bob's Note: Tucker knew well that anyone being forced to testify against the Clintons often wound up dead.)
But despite stonewalling prosecutors, Tucker never did a day of jailtime and ended up instead with a cushy cable TV business in Indonesia, home of Clinton mega-contributor James Riady.
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