On the Prowl
Bonior Wins? Embattled Newt Gingrich is telling friends and advisers that he might step aside as Speaker, if Republicans can achieve a "historic" budget agreement that would allow him a victorious...
...She's still waiting...
...No one was ever arrested for the attack, but shortly thereafter, the local sheriff, Coolidge Conlee, began displaying Dumond's pickled testicles on his desk...
...Shalala is said to of Clinton's extramarital have been "miffed" and interests, and it drove Clin"angered," and asked a White ton presidential campaign House staffer present for clar- staffers to overkill...
...You see, the kids were perfectly healthy—they were the children of the hospital staff...
...Campaign ification of her role in welfare press spokesman Michael reform...
...Why was Mike ashamed...
...Nonprima Donna The Clinton administration's January ii "retreat" for new and old cabinet members included an extra pair of hands that weren't exactly welcome...
...DNC sources saythey have identical versions of the database in their offices...
...Clinton in recent Supreme Court hearAugust 1984 while she was ing on Paula Jones, TAS sunbathing by the pool at thought it might be a good North Little Rock's Riverfront idea to sponsor one...
...Dumond accuses Hall of mishandling this trust fund, and in particular of donating $1,600 of his "testicle money" to Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1991...
...Conlee moved them soon after, and later died in prison while serving time on a corruption rap...
...On the Hard Drive Clinton consigliere Bruce Lindsey got a scare in January after an Associated Press report suggested he'd apparently allowed White House press secretary Mike McCurry to mislead reporters as to when the White House first heard about Webster Hubbell being hired on retainer by Indonesia's now-infamous Lippo Group...
...For days after the story broke, Clinton wouldn't even take Lindsey's calls...
...No Cojones One of the hottest stories around the Arkansas State Capitol these days concerns what happened to Wayne Dumond—specifically, what happened to his most private parts...
...senior law enforcement offiClinton dispatched an aide, cial, who put Hamzy through Michael Gaines, to fetch her, the difficult "confirmatory" but their time together was test on the truthfulness of her apparently frustrating...
...The first days of the Clinton cold-shoulder had made Lindsey fear for his job, but now McCurry looks like he's the one on the way out...
...ital womanizing is telling the The super-groupie has truth...
...Instead Shalala found herself playing second fiddle to Hillary Cling ton...
...He says that he was trying to "make our presence known to Clinton staffers—to egg them to act...
...Hillary was going to read to the kiddies from Sendak's work...
...Hall's response...
...Sweet, sweet Con- the nominee...
...But Hamzy has niell toured her act/She had long wanted to take a liethe whole show/And that's a detector test to prove her natural fact...
...Embattled Newt Gingrich is telling friends and advisers that he might step aside as Speaker, if Republicans can achieve a "historic" budget agreement that would allow him a victorious exit...
...Then, in January, the Arkansas Post-Prison Transfer Board voted 4-1 to offer Dumond parole...
...he was just leaving a magazine hired one of the noon talk he'd given at the most experienced polygrahotel to the Arkansas Manu- phers in Arkansas, an off-duty factured Homes Association...
...guest list: Roger Tamraz, an Hamzy told of the Egyptian-born U.S...
...Huckabee had seemed unassailable on crime after presiding over two triple-executions, but soon began getting pilloried in headlines as "the Rapist's Friend...
...The title found its way onto his business cards, and soon many Asian businessmen had the impression they were dealing with a White House official...
...In 1992, Gov...
...No matter...
...It because he is wanted by Interpol for questioning about the diversion of $154 million from a Lebanese bank...
...For his part, Dumond is not quite the ideal victim...
...The American Spectator March 1997 15...
...McCurry claimed that White House staffers learned about it from press reports in 1996...
...Knock on Wood The head of America's de facto embassy in Taiwan, James C. Wood, Jr., quietly resigned on January 17—shortly after the White House received a heads-up from an unknown source in the Justice Department that the FBI was preparing to serve Wood with search warrants for information related to charges that he, DNC fundraiser John Huang, and several other DNC officials attempted to shake down Taiwanese businessmen for political donations...
...Before the trial, masked men burst into Dumond's home and castrated him...
...Clinton had told the Center she would come along with noted children's author Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), who was in town to pick up the National Medal of the Arts...
...In 1993 the center named Grobmyer "Liaison to the White House...
...It was & immediately clear to every...
...looking unsuccessfully for an empty room...
...But he caught the Prowler's eye in November 1995, when he donated $1oo,000 to the Democratic campaign for the Virginia state legislature, a rather odd choice for an international wheeler-dealer more concerned about obtaining U.S...
...When the FBI files flap broke last summer, McCurry denied reports that the White House had created a database to track the names in these files...
...In 1985 Dumond was convicted for the rape of a distant cousin of Bill Clinton...
...Naturally the ward's patients—many quite sick, some of them terminal —were thrilled...
...Hamzy that she and Clinton had wonders what the White wandered down corridors House has to say now...
...citizen encounter in a 1991 Pent- and international oil broker...
...Another Riady donation to the group financed a "White House briefing" for Asia-connected businessmen hosted by Grobmyer last year...
...They parted Interpol Roger after the briefest of encoun- Here's another name to watch ters: she grabbed his crotch from the White House coffee and kissed him...
...in fact, hospital officials were told not to allow any children into the photo-op who were "drowsy," bald, bear ing tubes in their bodies, or "sick look...
...But now House investigators for the Government Oversight committee believe that the donor database is the same one housing sensitive material about Clinton's political opponents...
...He is now suing his former lawyer, John Wesley Hall, Jr., over the $uo,000 won in settlement from Sheriff Conlee over the display of Dumond's private parts...
...Lippo's James Riady made donations totaling more than Sioo,000 to the center, including $30,000 to cover an awards dinner in Washington that Riady "co-hosted" with John Huang...
...Looks like yet another file for Sen...
...The Hilton...
...A hospital source tells Prowler that some of those kids became "very upset," thinking they were too sick to be seen...
...Jim Guy Tucker shortened Dumond's prison sentence after doubts arose about his guilt...
...But Lindsey was soon back in Clinton's good graces after he helped his boss sidestep new revelations about White House fundraising...
...house article, "Confessions of Tamraz raised eyebrows a Rock 'n' Roll Groupie...
...Such a victory, he says, might even convince him to resign his House seat altogether...
...After January 30 reports that the White House had used taxpayer funds to create a computer database of political money donors, McCurry sent a deputy in his place to talk to reporters...
...That brought a teary protest from the victim and her family, and state Democrats, sensing a chance to dent Huckabee's prodigious approval ratings, launched an investigation into whether Huckabee, a Baptist minister, had lobbied for the parole...
...Gauldin called Hamzy's account "baseless and maliThe Whole Show cious lies," and three aides The American Spectator has (including Gaines) who had obtained results from a lie- been with Clinton at the detector test that show the hotel signed affidavits claimfirst woman to come forward ing that it was Hamzy who about Bill Clinton's extramar- had accosted Bill...
...Wood, a Little Rock attorney with close ties to Bill Clinton, is also tied to Mark Grobmyer, another Little Rock attorney under intense FBI and congressional scrutiny for not only his DNC fundraising and work for Lippo, but also his affiliation with New York's Center for the Study of the Presidency...
...Thompson to look into...
...The woman in ques- never forgotten the incident, tion is Connie Hamzy, a Lit- and when Gaines was tle Rock celebrity and the leg- appointed to the federal endary rock groupie to whom Board of Paroles and ParGrand Funk Railroad paid dons, Hamzy submitted her homage in their smash 1973 diary to the local FBI for its hit "We're An American routine background check on Band...
...Tucker's successor, Mike Huckabee, announced shortly after assuming the state house last year that he would consider Dumond, now 47, for executive clemency...
...Hamzy story...
...one, although the president didn't say anything about it, that the first lady was running 14 welfare reform—at least for was the first public mention the day...
...She passed with flying wrote in her diary that night colors—three times...
...A conference room was fitted out to look like a play room, the children of the staff were trotted in, and the First Lady got her care-giving photo-op...
...It Takes a Photo-Op Prowler was astonished to see photographs in the January 11 papers showing Hillary Clinton reading to children on the pediatrics ward of the Georgetown University Medical Center...
...Hamzy caught good name—and with the the eye of Gov...
...according to depositions stored in the Library of ConMarch 1997 • The American Spectator gress archives, however, Lindsey told the Office of the Independent Counsel that he'd known of Hubbell's deal since 1994...
...When attendees were asked to break into issue-working groups, HHS Secretary Donna Shalala thought she'd be heading the g welfare reform group...
...Former Bush White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray, who serves on the center's board, is said to be appalled at what's happened to this once nonpartisan think tank...
...Alas, the First Lady's advance team became squeamish about their boss appearing with kids who weren't looking loo percent in the pink...
...Everyone was a bit sur- ! prised that the first lady was t; taking such a proactive role t in directing the discussion," said an HHS staffer...
...help with an oil pipeline deal in Central Asia...
Vol. 30 • March 1997 • No. 3
