Ken Starr - The Clinton's Accomplice

Nolanda Hill's comments

Source: NewsMax.com

Published: July 1, 1999

Author: Chris Ruddy

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As the long-time lover and business partner of Clinton confidant Ron Brown, Nolanda Hill had intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the Clinton White House.

As a result of Congressional complaints, Janet Reno was forced to appoint an Independent Counsel to investigate Brown, his business dealings with Nolanda Hill, Brown's son Michael, and several other people.

The Independent Counsel in this case was Daniel Pearson from Miami. Unlike Starr, Pearson and his deputy were no one's patsies. Instead of using Starr's delaying tactics, Pearson had, within months, built a strong case against Brown, Brownís son, and Hill. Nolanda Hill told me they were going to be indicted.

Then Brown made a desperate bid to save himself. Just weeks before his death on April 6, 1996 Brown met with Clinton at the White House and made it clear he was not going to take the fall for an administration rampant with corruption. Brown wanted Clinton to handle Pearson the same way the White House had handled Starr.

Handled Starr?

Hill explained. Starr was appointed Independent Counsel in August of 1994, after the three-judge panel decided not to appoint Robert Fiske. The Clinton White House publicly expressed outrage that Starr, a "partisan" Republican, had been selected as Independent Counsel.

That's the way the Clintons wanted the world to see it.

In fact, Hill told me, "when Starr was appointed, they were opening champagne bottles in the White House, they were celebrating. According to Hill, Starr has actually been on Janet Reno's short list for the post of Special Counsel at the time she picked Robert Fiske.

"They would never had put him on the short list if they were worried about him," she said.

In his meeting with Clinton, Brown knew that Starr was under the White House's thumb. He pleaded with Clinton to do the same with Pearson by having Reno interfere in Pearson's probe, and by ordering Justice Department attorneys on Pearson's staff to back off.

Brown also asked Clinton to have the FBI obstruct the Pearson probe by withholding critical information. Brown, Hill said, was well aware that FBI agents were not working for Ken Starr in his Whitewater probe but for Reno and the White House, giving the Clinton Administration de facto control over the Starr investigations.

According to Hill, Clinton told Brown not to worry. "I'll take care of it," Clinton said.

Just weeks later, Brown's plane mysteriously crashed into the side of a mountain in Yugoslavia and the Pearson probe was closed.