In what at least has the appearance of impropriety, according to the New York Post the inclusion on Clinton’s Presidential pardon list of four members of a New York Hasidic community (convicted in 1999 of a $40 million swindling scheme) may have been the price for delivering their community’s votes to Hilary Clinton in her recent successful bid for a New York Senate seat. Her near-unanimous vote in the neighborhood was in marked contrst to the Republican majorities polled in two adjacent but unrelated Hasidic districts. Ms Clinton’s denials sound disingenuous in the same way as her husband’s denials about having sex with Monica Lewinsky, master wordsmiths that they both are.