HUGH RODHAM'S $434,280 CONTINGENCY
By WorldNetDaily
March 3, 2001

Good thing Hillary's well-fed Floridian brother, Hugh Rodham, gave back his $400,000 in fees for winning presidential pardons for a Florida swindler and a Los Angeles drug kingpin.

Florida rules prohibit lawyers from taking contingency fees in criminal cases.

Turns out the father of convicted coke-dealer Carlos Vignali made one payment of $4,280 to Rodham on his son's behalf, and a second payment of $200,000 after Rodham secured his son's pardon, according to a letter from Rodham's attorney Nancy Luque (who also represents felonious Clinton fund-raiser Maria Hsia), responding to interrogatories from House Government Reform Committee Chairman Dan Burton's legal counsel.

And convicted swindler Glenn Braswell made one payment of $30,000 and wire-transferred another $200,000 (minus wire fees) to Rodham after successfully lobbying his famous brother-in-law to pardon his client, the letter reveals.

Total pay-off: $434,280. Not bad for just hanging out a few weeks with the relatives. Too bad the fee was not only unethical, but illegal.

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