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...eight years, his half brother, Roger, lived in Bill's shadow. Now Roger is sweating under the hot lights as questions pile up about whether he had a role in an outrageous array of slippery and ill-fated schemes ranging from Mafioso pardons to Chinese scooter imports to Venezuelan coal mines. Though he always seemed to be the slacker Clinton, Roger now appears to have been a very busy man after...
...Lundy's lawyer, David McGee, told TIME his client had no Venezuelan coal interests to transfer. But a source close to Lundy said a group of his friends from Kentucky did, and Lundy hoped they would facilitate a deal with the president's brother. Roger Clinton's lawyer, Bart Williams, said his client never received payment from Lundy and never recommended him for a pardon. Lasater refused comment...
...Lundy offered to reward Roger Clinton with stock in a Venezuelan coal deal, sources told TIME. To protect Clinton from discovery of the payment and assure it remained tax free, the sources said, Lundy suggested to Clinton in November, 1999 that Lundy would transfer the stock to a mutual friend, Dan R. Lasater, a Little Rock financier who was convicted in the mid-1980s for buying drugs from Roger Clinton. The House committee has obtained records showing that Clinton deposited in his bank $100,000 in travelers checks on Nov. 30, 1999, with some of the checks purchased in Venezuela...
...been a wild ride. As chairman, Bourland, who has a business degree from Black Hills State University, took stock of his tribe's assets. "We had no timber to sell," he says. "We had no coal to mine. But the Internet is something anyone can do anywhere." Dragging his tribe into the 21st century, he turned the Cheyenne River Telephone Authority into a satellite-TV, cell-phone and Internet-service provider - and then spun off a new data-processing corporation called Lakota Technologies Inc. LTI employs 20 people, but Bourland dreams of 1,000 workers scattered across the 2.8-million...
...devils in black pajamas had damn near overrun the LZ at Cholon when we landed. I popped some Willie Peter from the AK, and my mortarman, Joe Biden, let 'em have it with a few bursts of an old Neil Kinnoch speech about his granddad the coal miner going to college. That knocked 'em dead. Victor Charles melted back into the triple-canopy forest, and he took Jane Fonda with...