Anthony Dean Rodham was an American consultant and businessman who was the youngest brother of Hillary Clinton and brother-in-law of former US President Bill Clinton.
26 Facts About Tony Rodham
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Tony Rodham managed a successful small business in the textile industry.
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Tony Rodham's mother, Dorothy Emma Howell, was a homemaker of English, Scottish, French Canadian, and Welsh descent.
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Tony Rodham was the younger brother of Hillary and Hugh.
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Tony Rodham subsequently attended Iowa Wesleyan College and the University of Arkansas, although he never received a degree from either school.
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Tony Rodham worked on future brother-in-law Bill Clinton's 1974 nomination campaign for Congress.
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Tony Rodham moved to South Florida in 1983, where he shared a condominium with his brother Hugh, and worked as a process server and private detective until 1992.
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In 1992, during Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, Tony Rodham began working for the Democratic National Committee, coordinating constituency outreach.
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In March 2001, it was revealed that Tony Rodham had helped gain a March 2000 presidential pardon for Edgar Allen Gregory Jr.
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Tony Rodham acknowledged talking to Bill Clinton about a pardon; he said he received no money for his work, but he did have financial ties to the couple as a consultant.
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Tony Rodham's actions gained much public focus and criticism, as they came on the heels of the general Bill Clinton pardons controversy and his brother Hugh's own involvement in taking money for work done towards pardons.
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Hillary Clinton, who had strongly criticized Hugh Rodham's involvement and requested he return his money, said that Tony Rodham was not paid for his work.
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The Republican-controlled House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform investigated the matter and concluded that Tony Rodham had in fact been paid.
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One aspect of the case dragged out into 2007, as Tony Rodham battled a bankruptcy court's order that he repay over $100,000 in loans from the now-deceased Edgar Gregory.
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Tony Rodham did not play a large, hands-on role in this effort and a trip to China that he made to recruit investors went sour due to Chinese resentment of various Clinton administration actions, including the 1999 United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
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Tony Rodham found himself in the news again in 2013 when it was disclosed that Alejandro Mayorkas, the director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and President Obama's nominee for United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, was being investigated by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General for Mayorkas' role in helping Gulf Coast Funds Management secure approval for participating in the EB-5 visa program for foreign investors.
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Tony Rodham had been president and CEO of Gulf Coast Funds Management, a financing firm, since 2010 or so.
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At least one of the visas that Tony Rodham's firm was trying to acquire was for Huawei Technologies, a Chinese telecommunications company sometimes accused of close connections with Chinese intelligence operations.
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In October 2013, Tony Rodham joined the advisory board of VCS Mining, a Delaware-based company that was planning a gold mine in the Cap-Haitien Arrondissement area of Haiti.
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Tony Rodham otherwise kept a low profile during the campaign.
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The GreenTech Automotive matter reemerged in November 2017 when McAuliffe and Tony Rodham were hit with a $17 million lawsuit from a group of thirty-two Chinese investors in it, charging fraud.
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On June 12,2019, the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling from the federal court in Alexandria, Virginia judge who said the suit was not specific enough about how allegedly misleading and false statements from McAuliffe and Tony Rodham induced the Chinese nationals to invest in the project.
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At a party in East Hampton, New York, following the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Tony Rodham met Nicole Boxer, daughter of a US Congresswoman from California and US Senate candidate, Barbara Boxer, and the two began dating.
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At a hearing on the case in November 2001, Tony Rodham testified that he might have smoked marijuana with the attacker several hours before the incident.
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Tony Rodham had two children with Madden named Simon and Fiona, and settled in Vienna, Virginia.
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Tony Rodham died on June 7,2019, at the age of 64; his death was announced by his sister on Twitter on June 8.