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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: LETTER TO RENO ~ 'BRIBERY', EXTORTION', 'SOLICITATION'
Dear Clients and Friends,
All federal crimes are statutory;
this means you must be specific
about the criminal statutes which
have been violated; otherwise any
indictment or information is fatally
defective. It sounds to me as if
the Committee already have all the
evidence they will ever need. This
points towards an ever more probable
impeachment trial of Clinton, and
possibly also Gore. It is for reasons
like this that we say: there is no
federal common law.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://supremelaw.com
copy: Supreme Law School
> In a scrupulously well-documented and carefully written 24-page letter to
>Atty. Gen. Janet Reno, House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde (R Ill) and the
>other Republican committee members have outlined what they believe to be
>"overwhelming and widely available" evidence suggesting that President Bill
>Clinton and Vice President Al Gore may have violated numerous federal felony
>statues- including those forbidding bribery, extortion and using the White
>House to solicit campaign contributions.
>
> "Numerous published reports describe circumstances that suggest that
>President Clinton may have received campaign contributions in return for
>official government actions he took on behalf of the contributors," Hyde
>wrote in a letter delivered to Reno by courier late on the afternoon of
>September 3.
>
> Hyde said such actions would violate not only the federal bribery statue
>18 U.S.C. 201 but also "18 U.S.C. 371 (conspriacy to defraud the United
>States), 600 (promising of government benefits in return for political
>support) , 872 (extortion by government officials), and 1341, 1343, and 1346
>(mail and wire fraud by defrauding the United States of honest services)."
>
> All 20 Republican members of the Judiciary Committee joined Hyde in
>signing the letter. This is the same committee that would oversee any
>impeachment inquiry.
>
> Says Hyde; "The circumstances of the coffees, the sleepovers and the
>possible telephone calls strongly suggest that the President may have
>violated; (1) 18 U.S.C. 600, by promising government access in return for
>campaign contributions, (2) 18 U.S.C. 607, by soliciting campaign
>contributions in federal buildings, and (3) 18 U.S.C. 641, by converting
>federal property, the White House, to his own personal use."
>
> Hyde also addresses the possible criminality of Vice President Al Gore's
>fundraising activities, including his use of White House phones for
>soliciting campaign contributions, his involvement in a fundraiser at a
>tax-exempt Buddhist temple, and his possible "extortion of campaign
>contributions,"
>
> "By holding such an obviously political event (as the fundraiser attended
>last year by Vice President Gore), the (Hsi Lai) Temple violated its tax
>exempt status," writes Hyde, "and Vice President Gore actively and
>enthusiastically participated in that violation. That action may violate 18
>U.S.C. 371, as a conspriracy to defraud the United States by interfering with
>the functions of the Internal Revenue Service, and 26 U.S.C. 7201, as an
>evasion of the income tax."
>
> What about Gore's famous West Wing telephone calls.? "On its face," Hyde
>informed Reno, "the conduct to which Vice President Gore admitted appears to
>be a clear violation of 18 U.S.C. 607."
>
> Finally, Hyde and his colleagues assert that Gore may have been an
>extortionist. "Although the Vice President may legally solicit campaign
>contributions, it is not legal to exert pressure based on government
>actions....Through the use of untoward pressure, the Vice President may have
>violated (federal bribery and extortion statues)."
>
> Although these allegations are raised in a letter sent by the Judiciary
>Committee to Janet Reno, demanding that she appoint an independent council,
>the committee has full constitutional authority, acting on its own, to begin
>an impeachment inquiry into the actions of the President and Vice President,
>based on firmly grounded suspicions that they may have committed felonies in
>the White House.
>emmilene
>
>Human Events
>Sept. 12, 1997
>
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