“Frankly, I didn’t want to know,” O’Daniel said. He said Young did not tell him exactly how the offer had been made-or whether Roger Clinton had offered the proposal in person or through an intermediary. Young subsequently was seriously considering a scaled-down payment of $15,000 when O’Daniel learned of the offer and ordered his client to abandon the idea, O’Daniel said. O’Daniel said Young turned down an initial proposal calling for him to pay Roger Clinton $30,000 to aid in his presidential pardon request.
20 for his conviction on a violation of federal wildlife laws. O’Daniel said his intervention scuttled the proposed arrangement. “I told him he was crazy,” O’Daniel said, and in the end, “he didn’t.” O’Daniel, an attorney for Phillip David Young, said in an interview with The Times that his client “was ready to do it,” referring to the proposed deal. In the second case reportedly involving Roger Clinton, an Arkansas lawyer told The Times on Friday that he had to talk his client, a North Little Rock caterer, out of paying Clinton to help arrange a presidential pardon for his 10-year-old felony conviction. They were among four people who promised a group of Southern Californians large returns on investments that never materialized.
Eggers, former general counsel in President Nixon’s Treasury Department. Garland Lincecum remains in the federal prison in El Reno, Okla. Hayes provided The Times with copies of the two canceled $100,000 checks from November and December 1998, signed by Guy Lincecum. Clinton was closely associated with the firm, the sources added, but his exact role was unclear Friday night. Dickie Morton, one of the firm’s associates, is a close friend of Roger Clinton. Sources familiar with the matter said the money was paid to C.L.M. Guy Lincecum declined to discuss the matter, saying he had been admonished to keep quiet by FBI agents. They paid on the theory that he would be pardoned.” “They paid it to an individual who said he was an associate of Roger Clinton. The Lincecum family paid “intermediaries who said Roger Clinton could get Garland Lincecum either a pardon or a commutation of his sentence,” Hayes said. Three months later, his brother, Guy Lincecum of Roanoke, Texas, paid the first of two $100,000 installments to members of an Arkansas law firm that he understood was linked to Roger Clinton, said Hayes, who represents the Lincecum family. Lincecum was convicted in August 1998 and sentenced to seven years and two months in prison for his role in a multimillion-dollar investment fraud case. Garland Lincecum, of Dallas, was prosecuted in New York, where federal officials have convened a grand jury to investigate the pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich and other New York defendants who sought presidential clemency. A spokeswoman for Roger Clinton, who works and travels as an entertainer, said: “We don’t have any comments or statements coming forward at this point. Repeated telephone calls to Roger Clinton at his Torrance home went unanswered Friday.
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