CLINTONS FACE $2.3 MILLION IN ATTORNEY FEES.Byline: Robert A. Rankin Knight-Ridder Tribune tribune, in ancient Rome, one of various officers. The history of the office of tribune is closely associated with the struggle of the plebs against the patrician class to achieve a more equitable position in the state. From c.508 B.C. News Wire President Clinton's legal bills are mounting rapidly, but contributions to his legal defense fund are only trickling in, documents released Thursday show. The president's legal defense fund received $185,000 in contributions during the last half of 1996 - but returned $123,000 because they came from suspect sources, the fund reported. Meanwhile, Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Rodham is an English surname which may refer to a number of persons or places. People Family of Hillary Rodham Clinton
``We're disappointed,'' said Michael H. Cardozo, the fund's executive director. ``We wish we were able to make a greater dent in their outstanding legal expenses.'' White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry said the Clintons are ``painfully aware'' of their mounting legal bills. Asked how they would ever pay them, McCurry said: ``He's said he's young and vigorous and expects to be an employable ex-president, and he expects to honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. his obligation to pay those bills. And he's said that in the past, and that remains his view.'' At a press conference last year, Clinton mused on his plight this way: ``I feel badly that 20 years of our hard effort in savings may go away, but if I stay healthy, I'll be able to pay my bills and earn a pretty good living.'' The Clintons' legal-defense fund is separate from contributions for the 1996 campaign, but probers are looking into illegal contributions to both. Many of the suspect donations came from Asians and Asian-Americans. The $123,000 in defense-fund contributions were returned to 135 donors after inspections showed they came from the same people rounded up as donors earlier in the year by Charlie Trie Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie (b. August 15, 1949), a major figure in the 1996 United States campaign finance controversy, was convicted and sentenced to three years probation and four months home detention for violating federal campaign finance laws by making political contributions in , an Arkansas businessman and old friend of the president's. Trie gave bundles of checks totaling $460,000 last March and $179,000 more in April to the trust fund. Under the fund's self-imposed rules, trustees returned those donations last June after determining that many appeared to have been passed to the donors from unknown sources. ``There was an inherent implausibility'' about many of the last batch of 135 rejected checks, said Cardozo. Some donations, for as much as $1,000, came from people with low-wage jobs, such as a nail manicurist and a clerk in a sheriff's office. And all came from people listed among Trie's bundled donations of the previous spring. Trie is a native of Taiwan. Formerly a small restaurateur res·tau·ra·teur also res·tau·ran·teur n. The manager or owner of a restaurant. [French, from restaurer, to restore; see restaurant. in Little Rock when Clinton was Arkansas governor, he has since become head of Daihatsu International, a U.S.-based trading company with offices in Washington, Little Rock and Beijing. Trie is under investigation by the Justice Department and by committees of the U.S. House and Senate. He has left the country and his whereabouts where·a·bouts adv. About where; in, at, or near what location: Whereabouts do you live? n. (used with a sing. or pl. are unknown, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Rep (programming) REP - A directive used in IBM object code card decks (and later PTF Tapes) to REPlace fragments of already assembled or compiled object code prior to link edit. . Dan Burton Danny "Dan" Lee Burton (born June 21 1938), American politician, is a member of the United States House of Representatives for Indiana's At-large congressional district. A Republican, his first term in the United States Congress began in January 1983. , R-Ind., chairman of the House panel investigating 1996 campaign-finance abuses. |
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