Tony Rodham

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Anthony Dean Rodham (August 8, 1954 – June 7, 2019) was an American consultant and businessman who was the younger brother of Hillary Clinton and brother-in-law of former US President Bill Clinton.

His company dealings had sometimes appeared to profit from his Clinton connections and hence attracted public scrutiny.

Early life and education

Rodham was born in a United Methodist family in suburban Park Ridge, Illinois, on August 8, 1954. Hugh Ellsworth Rodham (1911-1953), his father, was of Welsh and English descent. He managed a flourishing small business in the textile industry. Dorothy Emma Howell (1919-2011), a homemaker of English, Scottish, French Canadian, and Welsh descent, was his mother. He was Hillary and Hugh's younger brother.

Rodham, who later described himself as a "fun-loving jock" and was not as academically oriented as his sister was.

Rodham went to Iowa Wesleyan College and the University of Arkansas, but he did not graduate from either school.

Personal life and death

Following the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Rodham met Nicole Boxer, the daughter of a California and U.S. Senate candidate Barbara Boxer, at a party in East Hampton, New York, and the two met together. Rodham and Boxer were married in a White House reception attended by 250 guests on May 28, 1994; it was the first White House wedding since Tricia Nixon married Edward Cox in 1971. Zachary, the couple's one child, was born in 1995 (who later claimed that he was simultaneously the grandson and nephew of sitting US senators). Rodham and his wife were divorced around 2000 and 2001, and Rodham and his wife were divorced. Despite the fact that the situation was difficult, both sides of the greater family continued to work together political and be involved in Zachary's life.

Rodham was involved in an assault at the multi-generational Rodham family summer cottage at Lake Winola, Pennsylvania, in August 2001. Hugh Rodham and the woman restrained the attacker after a man who said he saw Rodham having sex with his girlfriend broke into the cottage and assaulted him; a man who said he saw Rodham having sex with his girlfriend burstled into the cottage and assaulted him. Tony Rodham testified at a trial in November 2001 that he may have smoked marijuana with the perpetrator several hours before the shooting occurred. The man pleaded guilty to trespassing, assault, and making terroristic threats.

Rodham and his ex wife were in conflict over child support payments by 2002, with Nicole Boxer saying he hadn't paid them in six months. Tony Rodham married Megan Madden of Vienna, Virginia, in the summer of 2005. Rodham married Simon and Fiona, a Madden boy, and they settled in Vienna, Virginia.

Rodham died on June 7, 2019, at the age of 64; his sister announced his death on Twitter on June 8. There was no reason given as to why the death was not announced.

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Career

Rodham served on future brother-in-law Bill Clinton's campaign for Congress in 1974. He then worked at a metal equipment firm in Texas, sold insurance in Chicago, and served as a repossessor in Chicago, where shots were fired at him in the notorious Cabrini-Green housing project, and as a prison guard, which Bill Clinton helped him get into. In 1983, he and his brother Hugh shared a condo in South Florida, and worked as a process server and private detective until 1992.

Rodham first started working with the Democratic National Committee in 1992, coordinating constituency outreach. Hugh and his brother Hugh ignited a small controversy when they attempted to solicit corporate contributions for Clinton's inaugural parties in 1993; they reacted angrily after a public outcry.

Rodham had left his position as a member of the Democratic National Committee and referred to himself as "a consultant [in] all sorts of industries by 1994. I'm a general consultant. I just bring different people together. I help them negotiate contracts. "I solve problems for people." Rodham attempted to arrange meetings between Paraguayan President Juan Carlos Wasmosy and Bill Clinton in 1997, as well as prominent Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov and the president. In 1998, he paid a visit to tyrant Prime Minister Hun Sen Sen of Cambodia. In both of these cases, there was a suspicion that he was offering an unlawful glimpse of White House blessing to these international figures or was aiming for financial gain for himself.

Rodham and his brother Hugh Rodham embarked on a $118 million effort to grow and export hazelnuts from the Republic of Georgia in 1999. Aslan Abashidze, a major political critic of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and then a key US ally in the area, shocked US State Department and National Security Advisor Sandy Berger. In addition, Rodham came to Rome to become the godfather to Abashidze's grandson. Berger and the Clintons defeated the Rodham brothers' resistance and ended the negotiations. Rodham will not disclose what his financial interest was in the venture.

The White House staff at Hillary Clinton's White House began referring to Rodham and his brother as "the Brothers Rodham," extending the American tradition of troubled presidential siblings to the brotherhood category. "You never wanted to hear their name come up in any context other than playing golf," a senior White House official said.

Rodham and his partner, Vonna Jo, a Tennessee couple who had been charged with bank fraud in March 2001, were both allowed to obtain a presidential pardon for Edgar Allen Gregory Jr. and his wife, Vonna Jo. The pardon was granted over the US Justice Department's objections. Rodham admitted to talking to Bill Clinton about a pardon; he said he received no money for his service, but he did have financial connections to the couple as a consultant. His activities attracted a lot of public attention and criticism after they emerged on the heels of the general Bill Clinton pardons controversy and his brother Hugh's involvement in receiving funds for services geared toward pardons. Tony Rodham was not paid for his service, according to Hillary Clinton, who had strongly condemned Hugh Rodham's presence and begged him to return his money. The Republican-controlled House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform investigated the allegations and found that Tony Rodham had in fact been compensated. One of the lawsuits dated back to 2007, when Tony Rodham protested a bankruptcy court's order that he repay over $100,000 in loans from now-defunct Edgar Gregory.

As of mid-2007, Tony Rodham was assisting Hillary Clinton in raising funds in Pennsylvania for her 2008 presidential campaign. Following a court decision, he was back in the news for owing Nicole Boxer approximately $158,000 in back alimony, child care, and other expenses by the end of 2007. In the New York Post, he earned him new unfavorable media, including the headline "HILL'S BROTHER A DEADBEAT" in the title. He expressed dissatisfaction with the Democratic National Committee's handling of the Michigan and Florida primary delegate issue between Clinton and Barack Obama in May 2008, and he said he did not know who he would vote for if his sister was not nominated.

Rodham was in financial distress, behind on his mortgage payments, facing home foreclosure, and being sued by his attorney in the child support case for failure of payments by the early 2010s. He said in a court hearing that although the Clintons had helped him in the past, including paying for his son's school tuition, it was over: "Hillary and Bill are done." I'm talking about a look at what they've done for me. "They've paid me all the time."

Nonetheless, Bill Clinton did help him find foreign investors for McAuliffe's GreenTech Automotive group by finding them online, including longtime Clinton associate Terry McAuliffe. Rodham did not play a lead role in this campaign, however, and a trip to China that he made to attract investors went sour due to China's resentment of various Clinton administration initiatives, including the 1999 United States bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. Rodham was back in the news again in 2013 when it was revealed that Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and President Obama's nominee for United States Homeland Security and President Obama's nominee for United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, was under scrutiny by the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration Services' Inspector General for helping Gulf Coast Funds Management in the EB-5 visa program for foreign investors. Rodham had been president and CEO of Gulf Coast Funds Management, a financing company, since 2010. Despite the fact that the initial request had been rejected and an appeal had been denied, the company had been given the green light. At least one of Rodham's visas sought was for Huawei Telecommunications, a Chinese telecommunications firm that has been accused of close links with Chinese intelligence agencies.

The Inspector General released a study in 2015 on the GreenTech Vehicle matter that chastised Mayorkas for giving the appearance of favoritism, but there was no decision on either Rodham or McAuliffe. Rodham, the head of a global EB5 Investor Relations & Government Affairs, was also using him to recruit EB-5 visa foreign investors in China for a community center project in Philadelphia China in 2015.

Rodham and some allies suggested a $22 million contract to rebuild homes in the devastated region following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, with Bill Clinton co-chairing the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission. The agreement was never completed, and the Clinton Foundation said it was unaware of the study. Rodham joined the VCS Mining, a Delaware-based company that was building a gold mine in Haiti's Cap-Haya Arrondissement area in October 2013. Because of potential environmental impacts and the degree of foreign ownership, the project had become highly contested by 2015; for his part, Rodham denied any suggestion that he had obtained this position due to his family's involvement: "I'm a very accomplished person in my own right." I am raising money for a large number of people. I'm just doing that. With no disagreement between the two sides, he resigned as a board member of VCS Mining on February 19, 2016 as part of a "restructuring initiative."

He and Hugh attended a rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, with their childhood summer home. He otherwise held a low profile during the campaign.

McAuliffe and Rodham were the subject of a $17 million lawsuit brought by a consortium of thirty-two Chinese investors alleging fraud. However, a federal judge dismissed both McAuliffe and Rodham from the lawsuit in April 2018. The Fourth United States Census Observed in June 12, 2019. The federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, affirmed the decision, finding that the complaint was not specific enough about how McAuliffe and Rodham's allegedly misleading and inaccurate claims prompted the Chinese nationals to invest in the initiative.

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