I guess he didn't think so," Roger Clinton said in the interview, which was posted tonight on the newspaper's Web site.
"It was so important to me that these people on the list, that they get it and not me. Saying he told his brother he would forgo a pardon for himself if the president would grant clemency to his friends, Roger Clinton added: "I cried about a couple of days I was in an emotional funk. When they were not pardoned but he was, Roger Clinton told the Los Angeles Times today, "it caused a rift" with his brother. 20, Lasater was not among those pardoned by Clinton, which dismayed both him and the president's sibling, who said he had promised six longtime friends they would get pardons. Lasater said he lent Roger Clinton $8,000 in 1984 to pay off cocaine debts. "He never solicited any money or anything like that," Lasater said in an interview today.Ī millionaire entrepreneur who had backed several Arkansas Democrats, including Bill Clinton's campaigns, Lasater got a conditional state pardon from then-governor Clinton in 1990. Lasater said he was asked for nothing in return. Lasater, a Little Rock bond broker convicted in 1986 of cocaine distribution, said Roger Clinton told him late last year he would put in a good word on his behalf with the president. Two friends of Roger Clinton convicted of drug offenses in the 1980s said today the half-brother of former president Bill Clinton talked to them about obtaining presidential pardons.ĭan R.
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