Posted on 11/03/2006 2:02:09 AM PST by HAL9000
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say a businessman pardoned by former President Clinton has been found dead inside his South Beach condo.Miami Beach police say 63-year-old Almon Braswell was found dead October 28th in his Ocean Drive condo by his employees. It's believed he died from a previous injury.
Additional information hasn't been released.
The Miami-Dade County medical examiner is labeling Braswell's death as "unclassified" pending more tests.
Clinton granted 177 pardons and clemencies just before leaving office in 2001. Braswell was pardoned of convictions for fraud and other crimes stemming from false claims in 1983 about a baldness treatment.
His pardon became one of the most criticized after it was learned that Clinton's brother-in-law, Hugh Rodham, had been paid 200-thousand dollars to work on the case. Rodham later returned the money.
Looks like the underbelly of the Clinton political machine is warming up for Hillary's 2008 run.
"Rodham later returned the money."
I thought it was closer to $400K and yeah, "sure" he returned the money. I'm totally sure that Janet Reno was right on that!
lol/sarc
ARKANCIDE ALERT!
Look for a lot more pardonees to disappear as Hillary prepares for her Coronation.
Arkancide is South Florida
They better check the apartment for Hugh Rodham's fingerprints. Maybe he decided he needed the money after all.
Anyone who has crossed the Clintons should be afraid, very afraid.
Fort Marcy alert.
Ironically, Braswell published a magazine called "Journal of Longevity" and a web site - http://www.journaloflongevity.com. Now he's dead at age 63.
Oh my--did the plane he was supposed to be on fly INTO his apartment? Seems like we aare getting to a new scenario here.
*Really* downside legacy ping.
How come they don't say what the 'previous injury' was?
Warminng up. . .cleaning up - and a lot of loose trash out there to take care of, on Hillary's behalf.
. . .wondering the same - just scanning for an answer to that. . .almost sounds like the previous attempt failed. . .
LOL! Whaddah statement! Like "Sure he died, just previously he had been clobbered with an aluminum baseball bat."
Democrats always rise to the lowest occasion. . .we can count on it.
Interesting that in this entire article; no mention made of 'previous injury'. (From jail or 'what'. .and by whom. . . )
Bruce Lindsay et al. has expanded their outreach beyond the pets of Bubba's 'Bimbos' it would seem.
According to whom?
Maybe his donation to the Clintonazi Library wasn't big enough.
OTOH if they are actually cleaning house, the earlier they do it the better for them. All the jokes and reawakened downside interest need time to die down before '08. This could be interesting.
The only thing I don't get is that Associated Press reported it and will they continue to do so...
Yup... like in Goodfella's when Tommy & Jimmy start wacking all their buddies.
Would be interesting to see just how much he did turn over to Clinton's favorite charity.
Item from 'quackwatch'. . .In December 2005, Braswell signed a stipulation under which he: Will pay $1 million and turn over assets worth $3.5 million to settle the FTC’s charges.
Wonder if he did already or it was 'pending'. . .
Looks he missed one too many pardon bribe payments...
he must have missed a couple of payments to the bent one and his bent wife...
LOL
It is an odd statement though. Usually you read, 'lingering illness', 'pre-existing condition', but 'previous injury'? How far back was this 'previous injury'? Very odd.
Has to be the latest 'catch phrase'! :)
Did he???
the man who knew too much
The permanently injured Almon Braswell.
I'd suspect a bald, impotent man as the killer.
Well, that's the question.
Who was that old Private Eye that Hillary engaged... and then they later hired to shake down Bubba's many flirtations... Pellicano? Something like that... I bet he's got a few commissions he's pursuing. Can't allow a few "inconvenient truths" and "old reminders" reach the light of day.
As Jim McDougal said: the Clintons are like a tornado... they come into your life and leave death and destruction in their wake.
Apparently, Clinton never received the envelope.
Gun shot wound in Marcy Park? Auto accident by a big black limo?
Makes me think of Studds "falling" while walking his dog.
Incredible how safe the Clinton's are; and worse; how well they know it.
I don't buy any Clinton connection at all. This guy was chump change in the Clintonian scheme of things.....and was probably on a downward spiral after a sorry business and personal life.
Leni
Yes; and that one line screams for some recognition; and it should not be difficult to explain. . .should not be. . .
And so. . .how long will it take for the obvious question to be acknowledged and answered. . .
On his last day as President of the United States, [c]linton included Braswell among the 140 felons whom he pardoned. (The pardon was for Braswell's 1983 conviction.) Pardons normally require demonstrated good conduct for a substantial period of time after the criminal sentence is completed. Braswell's longstanding mail-order scams hardly fit that description. Many major news outlets reported that he was under investigation by the FDA, FTC, Internal Revenue Service, and several state attorneys general and that a federal grand jury in Los Angeles was investigating him for money laundering and tax evasion [20].As the scandal broke, dozens of reporters began trying to understand why [c]linton pardoned Braswell. It turned out that the attorney who actually delivered the pardon application was Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother Hugh Rodham, who was promised payment of $200,000 if the pardon was granted. [c]linton stated that he was unaware of Braswell's pending legal troubles, and both [clintons] denied knowing that Hugh Rodham was advocating for Braswell.
Ironically, the pardon may have served a useful purpose by causing regulatory agencies to give higher priority to Braswell's illegal activities. In 2001, the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing that focused on Braswell and his misdeeds [21]. The hearing included testimony from a former business associate [22] and from an attorney who had sued Braswell on behalf of several clients [23]. In 2003, the FTC charged Braswell, four corporations, and Ron Tepper with false advertising [25]. In 2004, after having pleaded guilty to tax evasion and paid more than $10 million in back taxes, penalties and interest [26], Braswell was sentenced to 18 months in prison. A few weeks later, the FTC amended its civil complaint to add Drs. Lawrence and Kugler as defendants [27]. in June 2005, the corporations, Tepper, and Lawrence settled the charges against them by agreeing to pay a total of $605,000 and to refrain from making unsubstantiated claims for products in the future [28]. In October, Kugler agreed to pay $15,000 and to refrain from making future endorsements that are not based on competent evidence or within his represented areas of expertise [29].
In December 2005, Braswell signed a stipulation under which he:
* Will pay $1 million and turn over assets worth $3.5 million to settle the FTC’s charges
* Cannot market or help others in the direct-response marketing of any food, dietary supplement, or drug, for which a health benefit is claimed directly or by implication (except for FDA-approved product claims)
* Is prohibited from making false or unsubstantiated claims for all health-related products and services [30].Gero Vita continues to market many of the products, but Braswell no longer owns it and the claims made for the products have been toned down.
It would be interesting to know why the FDA, the FTC, and the U.S. Postal Service did not try to stop Braswell's illegal activities sooner.
He probably didn't come up with the money he promised to pay for the pardon. Another "Clinton Casualty."
"11,940 square-foot Ocean Drive condo"
Sale information:
Sale Date: 12/2001
Sale Amount: $1,500,000
http://gisims2.miamidade.gov/myhome/propmap.asp
(A. Glenn Braswell)
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That's a STEAL!
Extremely. I don't think I've ever read anything like it in a news story.
Yep......they got away with murder for 8 long years...looks like they're continuing with their "plans" for the White House...
Braswell
I hope somebody chronicles all the upcoming Arkancides.
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