pretty much the perfect parallel. Except these people were too dumb to obstruct justice, tamper with witnesses and destroy evidence the way the Clintons did.
It’s one reason I like electing rich people. At least the corruption isn’t as tacky.
Clinton’s Home Loan Deal Raises Questions
Fund-raiser and friend Terry McAuliffe, with the first family in Syracuse on Thursday, guaranteed the mortgage on the Clintons’ new New York home. (AP)
Saturday, September 4, 1999;
After President Clinton and fund-raiser extraordinaire Terry McAuliffe played a round of golf in upstate New York on Tuesday, the president made an unscheduled visit to St. Camillus Nursing Home to visit McAuliffe’s ailing 79-year-old mother, Millie, who recently had hip replacement surgery.
Later in the week, McAuliffe returned the favor and then some. When former White House chief of staff Erskine B. Bowles at the last minute balked at guaranteeing a $1.35 million mortgage for the Clintons’ new house in Chappaqua, N.Y., McAuliffe rode to the president’s rescue.
In a move that enables the Clintons to buy the house and Hillary Rodham Clinton to have a base for her New York Senate run the 42-year-old real estate developer and dealmaker pledged to put up $1.35 million in cash to secure a mortgage for the Clintons. Otherwise, swamped by more than $5 million in legal debts, the Clintons might have had difficulty obtaining the loan for the five-bedroom, century-old house.
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