KAREN HINTON
The New York Observer 3/29/99 Christopher Hitchens
"...Michael Isikoff was the guileless Candide of the Clinton scandal.
Things kept happening to him. Alas: "In working on it, I had gotten in
touch with Cuomo's staff to seek some backup material and ran across Cuomo's
new press secretary, somebody I knew from an earlier incarnation. It was Karen
Hinton, the woman who in 1994 had described to me the unpleasant sexual
overture Clinton had once made to her 10 years earlier."..."
MARY JO JENKINS
Washington Post 6/13/99 Bob Woodward Page A1 "...Robert S.
Bennett, leaning close to his client in the private study off the Oval Office,
announced his suspicion in an aggressive baritone. "Mr. President,"
he said, "I find your explanation about one of the women frankly
unbelievable." ....Bennett believed, he had smoked out the real liability
- Marilyn Jo Jenkins, a beautiful marketing executive whom Clinton had known
for more than a decade. Jenkins was a longtime employee of the Arkansas Power
and Light Co. Her name had been linked to Clinton in published reports, but
only in vague references. She had met with Clinton in his basement office in
the Arkansas governor's mansion four times in the less than three months
between his election in 1992 and his inauguration in 1993. Three of the
meetings took place about 5:15 a.m. or 5:30 a.m. Phone records showed that from
1989 to 1991 Clinton had placed 59 calls to Jenkins's home or office. Arkansas
state trooper Danny Ferguson had brought gifts from Clinton to Jenkins. Clinton
had denied to Bennett that he had a sexual relationship with Jenkins. Bennett
was not buying it. He noticed that Clinton reacted differently when Jenkins's
name came up. The president paused in a forlorn and wistful way. Bennett
couldn't quite put his finger on it, but Clinton's manner seemed to be a
definite tip-off....."
SUE SCHMIDT
Capitol Hill Blue 6/9/99 "...As the Washington Post
reporter who broke the news that banking regulators had referred the Whitewater
inquiry for criminal prosecution, she was seen as media enemy No. 1. The first
lady ordered the White House legal team to make a study, at taxpayer expense,
of supposed bias in her reporting. The study found no such thing, said those
who saw it, and press secretary Mike McCurry refused to make it public. Schmidt
later co-wrote the piece breaking the Monica Lewinsky story. Yet at the height
of the impeachment debate, she disappeared from daily news to write a
book....."
BETTY CURRIE
Capitol Hill Blue 6/9/99 "...As Clinton's secretary, she
was pressed into duty as an arranger for the relationship with Monica and even
collected evidence from her and hid it under her bed. Clinton twice coached
Currie on how he wanted her to testify. VULNERABILITY:She was an
employee..."
JEAN DUFFEY
Capitol Hill Blue 6/9/99 "...Former head of the Saline
County Drug Task Force, she worked with a federal grand jury until she dug too
deep, said John Brown, former detective for the Saline County Sheriff's
Department. State officials began undercutting her, and tried to frame her with
trumped up allegations that were thrown out of court. She has left the state
and is teaching school in Texas. VULNERABILITY: She was outnumbered...."
SHARLENE WILSON
Capitol Hill Blue 6/9/99 "...Now serving a 31-year sentence
for minor drug offense (selling a half ounce of marijuana and $100 worth of an
amphetamine) at the women's prison at Tucker, Ark. She got to know then Gov.
Clinton through brother Roger and attended toga parties where she said the
governor used coke. She testified in 1990 to a grand jury that she had seen
Bill Clinton using drugs, and when her testimony leaked out, she fled the state
for fear of her life. She later returned, it is said for a family funeral, and
was arrested for the drug crime, despite having been a top informant for drug
enforcement. Sharlene was my best informant, said Jean Duffey, former head of
the drug task force in Saline County. "They couldn't silence her, so they
locked her up in jail and threw away the key. That's Arkansas for you."
Her prosecutor, Dan Harmon, was also her ex-boyfriend. He is now in prison for
drug-related crimes. VULNERABILITY: Wilson's record of illegal
activities..."
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover.shtml 7/27/99 Carl Limbacher
"...An Arkansas parole board has recommended early prison release for
Sharlene Wilson, the onetime Little Rock drug dealer who told a federal grand
jury in 1990 that she witnessed then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton use cocaine on
multiple occasions. ....Wilson has been incarcerated for most of the Clinton
presidency as part of what many believe is a political vendetta by Clinton
allies in his home state, who fear she knows too much about the Mena
drug-running scandal. Wilson now resides at the Grimes-McPherson correctional
facility in Newport, Arkansas. The federal drug probe witness testified that
she began selling cocaine to Clinton's brother Roger as early as 1979. Wilson
has told reporters that she sold two grams of cocaine to Clinton's brother at
the Little Rock nightclub Le Bistro, then witnessed Bill Clinton consume the
drug. "I watched Bill Clinton lean up against a brick wall," Wilson
revealed to the London Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in 1995. "He
must have had an adenoid problem because he casually stuck my tooter up his
nose. He was so messed up that night, he slid down the wall into a garbage can
and just sat there like a complete idiot." Wilson also described
gatherings at Little Rock's Coachman's Inn between 1979 and 1981, where she saw
Clinton using cocaine "quite avidly" with friends. An Arkansas Police
video shows Roger Clinton telling one cocaine dealer, "Got to get some for
my brother. He's got a nose like a vacuum cleaner."...."
Newsmax 11/8/99 Carl Limbacher ".... Despite Saturday news
reports that Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee had commuted the prison sentence of
Sharline Wilson to time served, she remained in jail over the weekend and
doesn't expect to get out anytime soon, a source close to Wilson told
NewsMax.com Monday afternoon. Speaking on condition of anonymity Wilson's
friend revealed that an unexpected development has delayed her release.
"We found out over the weekend here that Sharline has to go back before
the parole board, which is really odd, seeing that she's already been approved,
which is why the Governor made his own approval based, in part, on their
recommendation. So, now they're saying that it may be another two months before
she's out." ....."
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE 11/6/99 ".... Gov. Mike Huckabee
on Friday commuted the sentence of Sharlene Wilson, 45, former girlfriend of
ex-prosecutor Dan Harmon. Wilson's 31-year sentence for two counts of delivery
of a controlled substance was shortened to the time she already has served.
Wilson was arrested in Hot Spring County in 1992 while Harmon was prosecutor
for the 7th Judicial District, which included Saline, Grant and Hot Spring
counties. Wilson was convicted in 1993....... "
Freeper HAL9000 11/6/99 adds "...In a related matter, Dan
Harmon was disbarred from practicing law by the Arkansas Supreme Court on
Thursday. In a one-page order, Harmon was barred from practicing law on the
recommendation of the Committee on Professional Conduct, which regulates the
practices of lawyers in the state....."
Drudge Report 11/6/99 "….Sharlene Wilson -- the talkradio
and underground video sensation who tells an incredible tale of using coke with
Bill Clinton -- will finally be freed from her jailhouse shackles, it was
reported on Saturday! Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has commuted Wilson's
31-year sentence for delivery of a controlled substance after having served
nearly seven years behind bars -- spanning the entire Clinton White House
years. The 45-year old AM and shortwave star has spent endless hours doing
radio interviews from the solitude of her jail cell, and has also appeared in
underground videos telling her amazing story of doing coke with Bill
Clinton….."
www.kiev870.com THE GEORGE PUTNAM SHOW 1/3/00
"….....SHARLINE WILSON, Arkansas Whistle Blower on Gov. Bill Clinton's
Cocaine Use in Arkansas ...who was thus jailed to guarantee her silence...is at
long last FREE. A friend of hers called into KIEV 870 AM's ( www.kiev870.com )
GEORGE PUTNAM SHOW today...to share that a now Free SHARLINE WILSON had called
him on Saturday to inform him that she had been held in Jail up to the very
last day of 1999 and was then released. She is now resting with her Mother and
2 children...."
NY POST (Page Six) 1/9/00 "….SHARLINE Wilson, the drug
dealer who told a federal grand jury she saw President Clintonsnort cocaine,
was finally released from an Arkansas jail on New Year's Eve after serving six
years of a 32-year sentence…. She claimed that then-Gov. Bill Clinton was not
only present during one transaction, but that he snorted some of her coke and
reeled backwards into a garbage can. Born-again while in jail, Wilson told
NewsMax.com she hopes to start a new life as a drug and alcohol
counselor……"
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