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Excerpt- WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — For more than a year, a disbarred lawyer and neighbor of Bill and Hillary Clinton has insisted that his wife was killed by an assailant who forced their car off a dark road, climbed in through the back and shot her in the head and him in the belly. Carlos Perez-Olivo, 59, said he figured it was a paid killer, targeting him, perhaps hired by a dissatisfied client. He drew a sketch, gave the police some names and continued to live in his house in Chappaqua, three doors down from the Dutch Colonial the...

A disbarred lawyer and neighbour of Bill and Hillary Clinton has been charged with murder. Carlos Perez-Olivo was arrested at his home, three doors down from the mansion the former President and First Lady bought in New York State. Prosecutors say the shooting dead of the suspect's wife was cold-blooded and well-planned. The fifty nine year-old denies the charges.The former United States President, William Jefferson Clinton, does not appear to be involved.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - An insurance company is balking at paying benefits to the husband of a slain woman who lived near Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying he ''has not been ruled out as a suspect.'' Peggy Perez-Olivo, 55, was shot in the head Nov. 18, 2006, as she and her husband were driving from Manhattan toward their home just three doors from the Clintons in Chappaqua. Carlos Perez-Olivo, 59, a disbarred lawyer, was shot in the abdomen. He said the shots were fired by a man who cut off their car on a dark road, then climbed...

A husband and wife who live on the same cul-de-sac as former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton were forced off the road and shot, police said. Carlos and Peggy Perez-Olivo remained hospitalized Sunday after being attacked Saturday night, according to police. Their medical conditions weren’t available early Monday. The couple — he a recently disbarred criminal defense lawyer, she a teacher’s assistant — were shot en route to their Chappaqua home from Manhattan, New Castle Town Police said. On a desolate part of Route 100, a car cut in front of the couple’s sport utility vehicle and...

Sen. Clinton to Meet Lamont in N.Y. By SUSAN HAIGH , 08.23.2006, 09:51 PM New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will meet Friday with Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont to discuss how she can help his campaign in a three-way race against Sen. Joe Lieberman, now an independent candidate. "Senator Clinton looks forward to meeting with Ned Lamont and discussing how she can be helpful to his campaign," Howard Wolfson, Clinton's campaign strategist, said Wednesday. Tom Swan, Lamont's campaign manager, said Clinton reached out to Lamont on the night of the Democratic primary and later contributed money from her political...

It's been some time since I've reported to you, my fellow Freepers, on all things Clintonian here in Chappaqua, and for good reason...of late, Chappaqua has been for the most part a blessedly Clinton-free zone..Oh, they come and go, but rarely are out and about. However, while Hillary contemplates her sinking poll numbers, and starts to take heavy fire from her left flank..I think it is now probable that events outside her control may well suggest that she skips the 2008 WH race...here's why....

CHAPPAQUA, New York --- Grief-stricken families of those incinerated at the Waco compound during the Clinton administration set up camp outside of Clinton's house demanding he meet with them to explain why it happened. "We got the idea from that woman with the funny hat at Bush's ranch," said one of the family members. "We never got an explanation from Clinton about what happened that day, and he owes us one. We're going to stand outside the Clinton mansion with our burning candles until he sits down and lets us yell, scream, and berate him. Bush already met once with...

Waco Families Wait Outside Clinton Home for Meeting Written by Jeremy Robb Tuesday, August 16, 2005 CHAPPAQUA, New York --- Grief-stricken families of those incinerated at the Waco compound during the Clinton administration set up camp outside of Clinton's house demanding he meet with them to explain why it happened..

Fellow Freepers, your intrepid correspondent here in BDC ( beautiful downtown Chappaqua) has spent the last few days running down this story, getting all the info, and trying to divine what it portends for Hillary's political future. As usual, with all things Clintonian, it's convoluted, but follow along, and I shall lay it all out for your edification..and then we shall speculate together on what it all might mean..

The feds have a new organized-crime target: the Albanian Mafia. Federal prosecutors issued racketeering charges against 22 people associated with an immigrant Albanian crime family called the Rudaj Organization. A massive indictment handed up in Manhattan federal court includes charges of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, extortion, loan-sharking, debt collecting and illegal gambling operations through a network of gambling parlors in The Bronx, Westchester and Queens.

Clinton has been phoning pals with pieces of prose. Friends of Bill Clinton better start screening their calls. The former President is feeling chatty. For weeks, Clinton has been holed up in his Chappaqua home as he and Knopf editor Robert Gottlieb saw and chisel the 900-page autobiography titled "My Life." The book is apparently going through its final buffing this week, and the former Oval Officer has been reaching out to pals to give them tastes of his prose. They never know when he'll strike. Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.) was sound asleep at 6:30 a.m. this week when the...

NEW YORK - Former President Clinton (news - web sites) lent his support Tuesday to two interest groups that have sharply criticized President Bush (news - web sites) while raising money to help Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites)'s White House bid. Clinton, along with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, spoke at an Apollo Theater event held by the MoveOn.org voter fund and Voices for Working Families. Clinton criticized Bush on his economic policies, particularly his tax cuts, and said the president had reduced after-school programs and the number of police on streets. "You...

<p>CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. (AP) -- Horace Greeley, the 19th-century journalist and presidential candidate, is getting a good look at why he's no longer Chappaqua's favorite son.</p> <p>On the second floor of the museum that was once Greeley's house, under a huge portrait of old Horace himself, the New Castle Historical Society has laid out a modest exhibit called "Bill Clinton: Our Neighbor."</p>

<p>"I like it because it's small, friendly and beautiful," Chappaqua resident and former President Bill Clinton said of his adopted hometown, before rattling off a few of his favorite local restaurants and shops: Starbucks, Lange's Deli, Takayama.</p> <p>The president's words are captured on a short videotaped interview on display at the Horace Greeley House in Chappaqua, where the New Castle Historical Society has constructed an exhibit titled "Bill Clinton: Our Neighbor." The exhibit opens tomorrow and will run until September, with a brief one-month interruption for a students' art show in May.</p>

Bernadette Chirac, wife of French President Jacques Chirac, says she hopes Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) will one day be elected US president because she would become a trailblazer for women across the world. Clinton "does not say it, but I think she is aiming for the White House," Chirac said in an interview with Thursday's edition of the French magazine Nouvel Observateur. "And I want her to succeed because the day that she is elected president of the United States she will become a trailblazer for all women of the world," she said. Madame Chirac said women needed...

Dorthy Rodham mother of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, will soon be movng to a condo near her daughters Chappaqua home.'She loves it here,' The Democratic Senator told the Journal News. 'She is 84 years old and we bought her a condo two minutes from our house because she wants to be on her own.'Clintons Press Secretary, Phillipe Raines, could not elaborate.Rodham, an Arkansas resident, has spent time recently at Clinton's home in Washington DC. She was a frequent White House visitor when her son in law Bill Clinton was President.Two years ago, Rodham underwent surgery in Washington for removal of...

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former President Bill Clinton shake hands backstage at the Samsung Four Seasons of Hope charity luncheon in New York, Wednesday, June 18, 2003. That wouldn't be news ordinarily, but a New York Post columnist reported Wednesday that the organizers of Samsung's Four Seasons of Hope luncheon had labored to keep the two politicians far apart because they "can't stand each other." (AP Photo/Harold Hechler Associates) AP - Jun 18 4:08 PM