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From the NY Post...

An aging man whose infamous fraud case sparked a pardon probe of Hillary and Bill Clinton pleaded guilty yesterday to swindling the government out of millions of dollars. Chaim Berger, 75, admitted in Manhattan federal court to helping the Rockland County town of New Square win massive federal funding through improperly obtained education grants. Four other men convicted in the scheme, including Berger's son Benjamin, made headlines a year ago when President Clinton drastically reduced their sentences in his final days in office.

The town of New Square had just voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Rodham Clinton in her Senate race, and federal probers are still trying to determine if there was a votes-for-clemency deal. Thanks to the Clinton clemencies, three of his co-defendants - Benjamin Berger, David Golstein and Kalmen Stern - have already been released to their homes or a halfway house. The fourth, Jacob Elbaum, is due to be let out in May. Unlike the other four, Berger had never gone to trial because he went to Israel for several years while authorities tried to force his extradition.
(NY Post)

43 posted on 01/17/2003 5:58:56 AM PST by OReilly
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What's your point?

See above post #43 for a mirror image of my point... I would not put it past many of the Israel Firsters here on FR to masquerade as conservatives, if a whole town of Conservative Ultra Orthodox Jews would vote for Hillary, to get Clinton pardon's.

45 posted on 01/17/2003 8:41:51 AM PST by OReilly
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