Raking in foreign cash is nothing new to the Clinton family. Bill Clinton’s brother, Roger, told FBI agents that he “received money for President Clinton from foreign governments” during Bill’s presidency.

Roger claimed that, after the first few times he brought back money for the President, either Bill or his staff told him that the President could not accept money from foreign governments and that he should send the money back.

Now, that’s a good one, isn’t it? What are the odds that Roger Clinton packed up wads of cash and sent it back to where it came from? And what about the first few times? What happened to that money?

In 2002, the House Committee on Government Reform issued a scathing report on the Clinton Presidential Pardons with disturbing findings about the President’s brother:

“Roger Clinton engaged in a systematic effort to trade on his brother’s name during the Clinton Administration.”

The section on Roger went well beyond just pardons and included a number of his other schemes to trade on his relationship to the President. His combined take was $700,000 — and that’s just what he deposited in his bank account and could be traced. It seems likely that he pocketed or spent at least some additional cash. Roger insisted that his brother was aware of his activities and approved of them.

Roger admitted to receiving $335,000 in cash and travelers checks from foreign sources such as South Korea, Venezuela, and Taiwan that were deposited into his account during Bill’s presidency. Roger refused to tell the Committee why he had received the checks, but apparently told the FBI that a lot of it was for overseas “concerts” by his band. The Committee noted that the fact that the travelers checks were provided in blank “suggests that the funds were intentionally provided to Clinton in a manner calculated to conceal their origin.” All of the travelers checks were purchased overseas and brought to the U.S. by Roger Clinton, who did not disclose them to Customs officials as required by federal law.

The Committee also noted that it was likely that there were more travelers checks and case that was not deposited into his account.

The House Committee uncovered these checks in Roger Clinton’s bank account:

CASH OR TRAVELERS CHECKS PAYMENTS TO ROGER CLINTON

TOTAL PAYMENTS RECEIVED = $335,000

In addition to the $335,000 listed above, Roger also deposited $85,000 in cash in his personal bank account between January and November 1998. In December 1999, he deposited a $70,000 travelers check from “Suk Eun Chang” as well as a $10,000 travelers check from the same source. Clinton refused to disclose the source of these funds, saying only that he got some of the money for performing in foreign countries with his band. The Committee was unable to find Suk Eun Chang to set any further information.

Roger also said that his foreign hosts gave him gifts such as rugs and vases, paid for his transportation and provided a presidential security guard in the host country. They were particularly generous — they even added money to pay for the taxes on the money they paid.

Wow. Wonder whether the Beatles got such a deal?

Roger Clinton also got funds allegedly for his musical appearances form Edvard Akopyan who paid the president’s brother $61,100 in 1999 when he was acting “as a middleman in scheduling Roger’s appearance at a musical concert in Kazakhstan.” Does anyone really believe that Roger’s talents were in such demand? These funds, are sure to heighten the controversy surrounding payments to the Clintons from foreign sources during Hillary’s service as Secretary of State. That they were sometimes intended for the president himself and that President Clinton encouraged the practice, adds a new dimension to the corrupt payments to the Clinton family.

In addition, the Cuba Travel Services company engaged Roger for $30,000 to lobby his brother to lift travel restrictions to Cuba. He was never registered as a lobbyist or agent of a foreign government as required, but provided evidence that he spoke to his brother about the issue.

Although he lied to the FBI about it, Roger also accepted $50,000 from the Gambino crime family to lobby for executive clemency for Rosario Gambino, a mob leader serving a 45 year sentence for drug trafficking. Although he was unsuccessful in this effort, he deposited the funds nonetheless.

(He also accepted $43,500 for his unsuccessful attempt to secure a pardon for Garland Lincenium, whose family sold their life savings to pay Roger Clinton and his agents.)

Roger solicited several other people in his pay-for-pardon scheme, but they didn’t fall for it.

So think about it. Can you think of any legitimate reason that foreign governments would pay Roger Clinton?

It was the beginning of the amazing Clinton family foreign money boondoggle.