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#Arkansas

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People (9)

  • Bill Clinton Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States and Governor of Arkansas during the Mena CIA-linked drug-smuggling period, whose administration terminated Project Stargate in 1995, and who took multiple flights on Jeffrey Epstein's aircraft for Clinton Foundation work in 2002-2003 while denying any knowledge of Epstein's crimes.
  • C. Joseph Giroir Rose Law Firm lawyer and Worthen Banking Corporation partner whose deposition described the Lippo Group's Arkansas partnership with the Stephens family; Lippo later paid him through a company he incorporated in 1993.
  • Danny Ray Lasater Little Rock bond broker and Clinton associate convicted of drug trafficking, connected to Barry Seal's operations at Mena, Arkansas.
  • Jackson Stephens Little Rock investment banker whose firm held the nominee account through which BCCI's clients bought into Financial General Bankshares in 1977, and whose Worthen Bank, owned with the Riady family, financed Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign.
  • Mack McLarty Kindergarten classmate of Bill Clinton who succeeded Sheffield Nelson at the Arkla gas utility, became Clinton's first White House chief of staff, solicited consulting clients for Webster Hubbell, and went into business with Henry Kissinger.
  • Mark Grobmyer Lawyer with Arnold Grobmyer & Haley and godson of Jackson Stephens who did legal work for Stephens Inc., sat on the Clinton-Gore Arkansas Finance Council in 1992 and introduced Clinton to Al Gore in 1988.
  • Mochtar Riady Indonesian founder of the Lippo Group, partner of the Stephens family of Little Rock from 1976, whom a 1998 Senate report said, with his son James, had a long-term relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency.
  • Sheffield Nelson Witt Stephens's successor at Arkla, who broke with the Stephens family in 1975, sold gas leases to Jerry Jones that the utility bought back at a large markup, and lost to Bill Clinton in 1990.
  • Witt Stephens Arkansas bond dealer who founded the Stephens investment house in 1933, controlled Arkansas Louisiana Gas from 1954, had the legislature undo a state supreme court ruling in four days, and was the state's kingmaker.

Organizations (4)

  • Park On Meter Arkansas parking meter manufacturer allegedly used as a front for manufacturing weapons parts for the Contras, with connections to Webb Hubbell.
  • Rose Law Firm Little Rock law firm dating from 1820, counsel to the Stephens interests, Worthen Bank, and Systematics, whose partners Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vince Foster, and Webster Hubbell went to Washington in 1993.
  • Stephens Inc. Little Rock investment bank of the Stephens family, underwriter of Walmart and most Arkansas bonds, whose officers bought Financial General Bankshares stock for BCCI's clients in 1977 and whose Washington office housed John Huang.
  • Worthen Bank Little Rock bank owned jointly in the 1980s by Jackson Stephens and the Riady family of Indonesia, which employed James Riady and John Huang and financed Bill Clinton's 1992 primary campaign.

Places (2)

  • Little Rock, Arkansas Capital of Arkansas and seat of Stephens Inc., Worthen Bank, Systematics, and the Rose Law Firm, where BCCI's emissary met Jackson Stephens and Bert Lance in 1977 and the Riady family entered American banking.
  • Mena, Arkansas Small Arkansas town where Barry Seal based drug-smuggling and weapons operations at Intermountain Regional Airport during the Contra war.