It is important to note that individual political figures that somehow may be connected can be equally under the control of the System and while they may have been associated with an alleged impropriety they are not necessarily the initiator or perpetrator.

Further, so as to assure other countries that any such political figure currently in power is serving on behalf of the interests of the United States of America as opposed to the System, and to enhance and maintain national security, it is hoped that they will support commencement of appropriate actions against the alleged perpetrators as opposed to its victims.

And lastly, it must be understood that I am not an activist. I find myself in a situation where after years of unjustified suffering without recourse I have but two choices, to fight or to be destroyed.

 

As was first placed on Hal’s website for about two months near the end of 2005.

Plus current minor edits to relate to 2011

“THAT WAS IT,” he thought, the last straw. After two years of devastating financial losses from 2003 to 2005, all occurring in the very same way; first he gets the assignment and then it just instantly and mysteriously evaporates before the retainer fee and signed engagement letter is received.

To that point in time, a conservative estimate of lost revenues to Hal amounts to over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars (at 2011 it is in excess of $1 million, not counting the present value of future losses and other damages). He has no pension fund and very little savings, which is now being depleted. For all practical purposes Hal is no longer in the expert witness and forensic accounting business; he has been forced out of business. He went from being a leader in his profession to deep in the hole. Word gets around to law firms about expert witnesses. The inescapable reality is that at this point there is no reasonable expectation that he can obtain any significant new engagements in his field of expertise.

          In recognition of the actuality that he finally self-acknowledged as being absolutely in place, and for other reasons, Hal devoted a several days putting in writing what he added onto his website (askhal.com) in late 2005 and kept there for a couple months.

 

Here it is:

 

Whitewater is alive and well, sick!

 

“…the reason for this writing is to show what happens to American citizens whom the Clintons consider to be a threat to their personal political interests or to the interests of those whom the Clintons truly represent.”

 

 

 

Introduction

 

In May of 2003, many years after I thought it had ended it started again, seemingly for no reason. But then Hillary Rodham Clinton’s new book came out within a month thereafter, which event made quite clear the reason for the resumption of oppressive activities against me at the hands of the Clinton thugs. Many consider Hillary’s book to be the forerunner of her active, though stealthy, pursuit of the presidency in 2008. The timing matched. The method matched, as did their disregard for law and morality.

 

The crux of the matter is not the Whitewater you know but the Whitewater you don’t know – what the insiders call the “Arkansas Time Period,” the period when the real transgression occurred. It is that misdeed that is the area of sensitivity, rather than the substance of the hearings and lengthy investigation that was limited to dealing with cover-ups occurring much later on.

 

Of equal or greater importance, and the reason for this writing, is to show what happens to American citizens whom the Clintons consider to be a threat to their personal political interests or to the interests of those whom the Clintons truly represent.

 

The stupidity and lack of control of the Clinton’s goons and conspirators is unsurpassed. All that was needed to prevent me from suddenly disseminating key Whitewater information to the public at large, after an eight year period of doing nothing of the kind and clearly having no interest in doing otherwise, was to leave me alone.

 

It is the Clinton gang’s virtual destruction of my civil rights, and their apparent continuing unfounded assaults on my reputation, livelihood and well-being as a means of extortion under the color of law and cruel and unusual punishment that now forces me to do exactly what they wish me not to do.

 

The “Arkansas Time Period”

 

In 1978 the Clintons were involved in a variation of a technique historically used to financially reward judges and politicians. The goal was to obtain a loan from a bank, secretly convert it to cash and circumvent paying back the loan personally.

 

The pretext in this instance was the assertion that borrowed funds were to be used to purchase land for development purposes in the normal course. Citizens Bank and Union National Bank advanced $182,611.20 and $20,000, respectively, to purchase the undeveloped land which they received as collateral along with the personal guaranties of the Clintons and McDougals.

 

However, the true intent was not to obtain profits from the development of realty over time but to convert the loan proceeds into cash for their immediate use.

 

The deal was atypical for the banks; the borrowers (originally, only the Clintons) had no equity in the deal for the benefit of the lenders and were not considered viable borrowers from a personal asset standpoint; the Clintons were still paying off their student loans.

 

To implement the scheme, in 1978 the two couples’ respective half-interests in the land were promptly “transferred” (without concurrence of the banks) to a company, Whitewater Development Co., Inc. (“WDC”), which “company” was not even formally registered as a corporation until almost a year later (at June 18, 1979), in exchange for a note payable by that “company” to each couple in the amount of $101,305.60. In today’s money (2005) that amounts to over $300,000 each.

 

It is quite simple, actually, sort of an accounting 101 thing. A single bookkeeping entry on the original records of Whitewater Development Co., Inc. (“WDC”), fully backed up by the WDC accountant’s analysis and explanation worksheet, says it all. There are no sides to it. It is what it is, plain and simple.

  

The entry:

   Land                             $202,611.20

      Note Pay(able)-Rodham                   $101,305.60*

      Note Pay(able)-GSLC                        $101,305.60*

      (Clarification added).    

 

* Explanation per the WDC accountant’s supporting worksheet, “To record ½ the original cost of land”           . . . by the corporation.

 

The connected conversion-to-cash step of the sham was accomplished by “discounting,” or cashing in, the note at an alleged McDougal controlled company called Great Southern Land Company (“GSLC”). Any non-conspiratorial company would not have accepted a debt instrument (the note) at full value -- if at all -- from an insolvent, let alone a non-registered corporation such as WDC.

 

Since it is normal procedure to deduct the first year’s interest (10% at that time) from the proceeds upon a legitimate discounting of a note, and the goal was to get funds to the Clintons rather than interest income to GSLC, a minor hitch surfaced regarding interest.

 

The problem was handled by having the WDC accountant “adjust” the amount of the note payable to “Rodham” (as clearly shown in the WDC accountant’s worksheets) by tacking-on the sum of $10,130.56. By doing so, when GSLC deducted the $10,130.56 sum as interest from the artificially inflated note payable amount the Clintons still would ultimately receive the full original note amount value of $101,305.60. Here is the confirmation.

 

The entry:

   Land                                 $20,261.12

      Note Pay(able)-Rodham                       $10,130.56*

      Note Pay(able)-GSLC                           $10,130.56

               (Clarification added)

 

* Explanation per the WDC accountant’s supporting worksheet, “To record interest paid by Rodham”

 

Amazingly, the Clintons had the tenacity to claim a $10,131 interest expense deduction (paid to “Great So Land Co”) on line 19 of Schedule A of their 1978 personal income tax return (Form 1040). The deduction was subsequently disallowed by the IRS.

 

 

The Note is the Smoking Gun

 

If one knows about the note, the trail to the cashing-in of the note and the substance of the true transaction and intent is obvious. The key elements are a perfect match: (1) WDC’s initial corporate income tax return of 1979 (for the fiscal year beginning in 1978 and ending May 31, 1979), (2) the WDC accountant’s worksheets for that year in support and explanation of the WDC financial representations, (3) and the Clintons 1978 personal income tax return.

 

So, how to make the note disappear? See next, the Lyons Report(s).

 

The Lyons Report(s)

 

Paid for by the 1992 Clinton Campaign, a report on WDC was issued by attorney James Lyons on March 23, 1992, and included a financial report. That report was the changed/edited rendition of two prior reports sent to Hillary Clinton and others.

 

Conspicuously, the report was prepared without consideration of (1) the crucial 1979 WDC corporate fiscal year-end transactions (beginning in 1978), (2) the initial corporate tax return and (3) the directly related accountant’s worksheets. Instead, the report leaped over to a year after the fact as its starting point; that being the 1980 WDC corporate fiscal year-end.

 

And, guess what, the new 1980 starting point (and onward) of the financial report of WDC failed to show the note! Effectively, the telltale 1978 calendar year transactions (which was part of the 1979 corporate fiscal year) were swept under the rug.

 

The easily verifiable WDC note payable liabilities owed to the Clintons (Rodham) and McDougals (GSLC) were instead reflected as being owed to the two original lending institutions; thus depicting a circumstance that simply was not the case and covering up the volatile circumstances.

 

What was the case is that the individuals were still on the hook to the banks, and that WDC was on the hook to the individuals due to the WDC notes payable to them for WDC’s “original cost of the land” it acquired from the individuals.

 

As a related issue, when GSLC purchased the WDC note payable to the Clintons, GSLC effectively took ownership of the note. Therefore, that note should subsequently have been paid in full by WDC, thereby allowing GSLC to actually receive the discounted interest supposedly “paid” by the Clintons and deducted on their 1978 personal income tax return.

 

Such payment in full by WDC never took place; nor could it have now that the names of the payees were altered. Had it taken place, it would have flagged the covert payment.

 

A Relevant Question

 

If my premise as to the note constitutes the substance of my input, which it does, and that premise is not valid, why am I considered so great a threat?

 

It seems obvious that the premise is valid, at least to the Clintons.

 

My Involvement - How It All Began

 

Back in 1994 I viewed a TV show that pictured a twenty-two thousand odd dollar check the Clintons claimed was part of their “investment” in Whitewater. The check was sent to a local attorney with whom I met and I offered a couple of points of interest regarding the viability of the check.

Shortly thereafter I read that Bill Clinton changed his mind about the check after recalling that it was paid to the bank to assist a relative to purchase a home. I have no idea if my comments had anything at all to do with that outcome. Then I became curious about Whitewater but knew little about it.

 

Not long after that, my barber was not ready when I arrived for my appointment and asked that I please read a magazine for a few moments, which I did. The magazine contained an article about Whitewater. The substance of it was that the various known financial particulars presented in the article did not coincide and made no sense.

 

But, to me, it did make sense. I knew instantly what the gig was and offered to trade the author answers to questions in exchange for public documents. My average case assignment is more complicated than the real Whitewater. I even received a box of the McDougal documents the morning after they were sold to the press.

 

The House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs

 

I made a cold call to the Committee to request a copy of a public document believed to be in its hands. When asked, I explained why I wanted the copy.

 

Within an hour I received a personal phone call from a now very excited Chairman of the Committee begging that I come to Washington to explain my theory to the Committee. I did that after first undergoing an extensive background check.

 

My action was not politically motivated. In fact, I was at that time quite politically naïve and was not even fully aware of the dramatic extent of separation of the Committee’s two distinct segments, the Democrats and the Republicans, and that it was solely the Republican segment with whom I met.

 

One of the reasons for my seeming lack of awareness of the political scene is that I had been for very many years an accepted and respected member of the investigative community. The unwritten understanding was that I could obtain cooperation from virtually any investigative body and that I would reciprocate when called upon, all for the general good of what is right. Further, that I could be trusted to deal in an appropriate manner with the support received and/or provided.

 

So, requesting a document from a Government agency was not out of the ordinary.

 

The Special Prosecutor

 

The Committee submitted its own report on my information to Robert Fiske. I read that he met with Hillary Clinton to discuss it “on the record” and I understand that he was in short order prepared to submit criminal referrals, including those against the President and Mrs. Clinton.

 

Attorney Fiske was replaced by Kenneth Starr. I am told that Kenneth Starr’s investigative responsibilities excluded the Arkansas Time Period and, to that extent and contrary to public opinion, Kenneth Starr can be considered the Clintons’ best friend.

 

The Whitewater Hearings

 

The Republican sides of both the House and the Senate’s Banking Committees did not have the votes needed to cause hearings on Whitewater to be held, so they worked a deal with the Democrats who were then in control.

 

As reported in The Herald on June 17, 1994, “Republicans said they would abandon demands for wide-ranging hearings going back to President Clinton’s involvement with the Whitewater Development Corp. when he was governor of Arkansas (The Arkansas Time Period) if Democrats agree to a full examination of Whitewater-related actions by government officials since he became president.” (Emphasis added).

 

While the hearings may have been instrumental in garnishing additional votes for the Republican Party in the upcoming elections, they were fatally impaired as a result of the exclusion of the time period during which the transgression that is Whitewater occurred.

 

Expert Witnesses and Credibility

 

The name of the game is to discredit the opposing expert witness. Doing so permits the judge or jury to disregard or to eliminate the expert’s opinions. Therefore, the party that is successful in discrediting an opposing expert witness achieves a momentous advantage in the related case or hearing.

 

An expert witness can be discredited either professionally or personally. I was not scheduled to be an expert witness in the Whitewater hearings but the Clinton thugs did not know that or did not care and took extensive and criminal action to both destroy my credibility on a personal basis and to intimidate me.

 

The Clinton Thugs and the “FBI guys”

 

While this is not to be taken as an accusation, it was suggested to me that one Terry Lenzer (or Lenzner), reporting to attorney David Kendall and Congressman Barney Frank, and possibly an investigator named Butterfield, may have participated in the oppressive offensives against me which began with a three month extravaganza in the summer of 1995.

 

During that period heavy usage was made of local private investigators as well as some of their family members and friends. Here is a photograph of an investigator who followed me to a flea market and videotaped me there. ……………   The same individual videotaped me at the rifle range, at breakfast with my girlfriend (his whole family was there as a “cover-up”), impersonated a German tourist to gain entry to my apartment building, etc.

 

There were usually two cars following me at all times, even though my car was illegally rigged with a tracking device. The overall scenario was right out of a Hollywood movie set and could top films such as “The Firm,” starring Tom Cruise. I estimate the costs paid out for observed manpower, lodging, equipment and out-of-pocket expenses by the Clinton supporters to be in excess a quarter of a million dollars in today’s money (2005), for just the first three month campaign conducted against me at the time of the hearings.

 

The Clinton gang found out that I was injured in an auto accident about a year earlier, in which several people were rushed to the hospital on stretchers. My injury was to my upper spine and I had a claim against my auto insurance carrier under the uninsured motorist provision in my policy having a cap of $100k. This was also known to the Clinton gang.

 

An obvious method to destroy my credibility as an expert witness would be to portray me as an insurance cheat – someone who is not really injured but says that they are so as to obtain insurance reimbursement for medical costs and other losses. Plus, if my auto insurance carrier could prove that, it would not have to pay me. So, there existed a common bond between my insurance company and the Clinton gang.

 

The common bond took the form of an active conspiracy between the general counsel of my auto insurance company and the Clinton gang. Since the gang was comprised of a number of persons, some of whom were in from out-of-town on occasion, the general counsel provided resources for them at his offices in Fort Lauderdale. The attorney’s offices became sort of an anti-Rosenthal headquarters facility.

 

The Clinton gang’s activities included, but were not limited to, the following: clear and apparent unlawful wire tapping, unlawful use of a tracking device on my automobile, being followed by one or more vehicles at all times during which I left my residence, use of a shill (Sandy), round-the-clock surveillance of my premises from rooms at two hotels adjacent to my then current residence, unlawful entry, intentionally obvious and harassing videotaping and still-photography of myself and friends wherever I went (without exception).

 

In lieu of riding my bike about twice per week as before my injury, I did it only twice at the end of a full year after the accident (but within the three month surveillance period) and on both occasions it was videotaped. I played baseball when I was younger and some softball when I got older but because of my back injury I could no longer handle a bat. So, on a single occasion I tried what is called a training bat and was photographed (by George) in the attempt. I was on the U.S. Army Carbine Team in the Far East and I enjoy shooting. I went to our local rifle range and found that I could no longer handle the recoil of my pre-injury favorite rifle and traded it in for something else a week later: I was also videotaped at the rifle range on that occasion. The only honest photograph of me in connection with the auto accident is the x-ray of my upper back that clearly shows the damage caused to my spine.

 

At the close of the Whitewater hearings the general counsel of my auto insurance company asked to have a settlement conference. At the conference he confirmed the involvement of persons linked with the FBI, apparently recognized that he had no viable basis to establish that I was in any way an insurance cheat even with the use of the Clinton gang’s misleading videotapes. He therefore settled the matter by payment in the amount of $60,000, of which $17,000 went to my lawyer.

 

Eight Years Later – The Fishing Trip and the Renewed Threat

 

In early May of 2003 the Clinton gang and the “FBI guy” made it clear that they had total control of my well-being and that there was no escape from their actions.

 

For starters, they gained free access to spy on me inside my gated-community condo, and made sure that I saw them doing it, illegally tapped my telephone again and hacked into my computer via the internet.

 

With the aid of advance knowledge obtained via illegal telephone interception, the Clinton gang knew that I had planned a fishing trip on a specific day with a buddy of mine who was coming in from Philadelphia to visit me.

 

It was a half-day morning trip on a rented boat with a captain and a mate. I was lucky and caught a billfish that took only twenty minutes to bring to the boat (the captain did an unusual amount of backing up the boat). Instead of releasing the fish by cutting the line as I ordered, the mate ignored me (was he set up by the bad guys?) and pulled the fish onto the boat. He then succeeded in convincing me to keep the fish as a trophy. I had not caught such a fish in over thirty years and was no longer physically able to perform a more typical two-hour fight to bring such a fish to the boat. So I agreed.

 

Upon our return to the fishing dock we came upon an extraordinary scene. The “FBI guy,” with his car parked in the first space next to our boat, looked out of place on the fishing dock dressed in a dark business suit, shirt and tie, and black dress shoes on this hot and humid day in Florida. He walked onto our boat without permission and temporarily blocked my way off the boat. With a slight grin he stared into my face while the PI photographer (“George”) that I also recognized, who arrived in a rented car (he then lived out of town) with his signature cane seen hanging on the car door began an extensive series of photographs of the scene, of me, the boat and the fish.

 

They just stayed there, in my face, so to speak, for some time. They wanted to make sure that I got the message; that their previously failed insurance cheat premise is alive and well, especially since I had just caught a large fish, which totally made their day.

 

But what for? I didn’t get it. The insurance matter was long over as were the Whitewater hearings. The only way such contrived character assassination and slanderous information could now be used to harm me would be for them to communicate it, covertly of course, in the guise of official agency activity, to potential clients - identified via illegal telephone interceptions - that were in the process of hiring me as an expert witness. They did it as recently as September, 2005 (and subsequently up into 2011). And that was the threat – extortion - the staged event was intended to communicate.

 

They were letting me know that they had the capacity to secretly destroy my livelihood, which they in fact accomplished over the subsequent two year period to date. The series of negative events that have occurred since the fishing trip were quite shocking and have recently expanded beyond just monetary issues.

 

I have an extraordinary record of success in my assignments, having failed to win in only two cases over a period of thirty years, and I am one of the finest forensic accounting experts in the United States. But, unless something changes I can basically forget about obtaining any new assignments on my own. And even if the Clinton goons stop what they have been doing, much of the damage they have caused may be permanent.

 

My Letter to President Bush

 

I sent a letter to the President via Federal Express that was received by his agent. I have not heard back. Not that I thought he would personally attend to it. But I hoped it would be routed to the proper individual.

 

At a time such as now when there exists a conflict between the need for expanded intelligence gathering capability and the simultaneous need to protect the rights of our citizens, what better way to show that such intelligence gathering will not be abused than by addressing the situation that I face.

 

The following is from the end of the letter:

 

“I am an elderly American and a veteran. I wish to live the remainder of my life free of persecution, threat and intrusion by stealth or otherwise, especially by those who may be former or possibly contemporaneous members of the very agencies upon which Americans rely for the protection of their freedom and their rights. I did what I did for the betterment of our society; I explained a covert method by which a payment is made. How long must I continue to pay a price and to suffer, alone and unsupported, for doing what was right for a citizen to do? 

 

Mr. President, please help. I don’t know who else to turn to

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

Herbert “Hal” Rosenthal, CPA, CFE, CVA”