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By Glenn Reynolds | Instapundit
Mark Middleton, the former special assistant to President Bill Clinton, died by suicide at the age of 59 on May 7, the Perry County Sheriff’s Office in Arkansas confirmed
The family of the Bill Clinton advisor who admitted Jeffrey Epstein into the White House seven times has blocked the release of files detailing the death scene after he was found hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast at a ranch 30 miles from his home. Well, the family doesn’t want to commit suicide by being shot in the back of the head.
We joke about this stuff, but we really do live under a banana-republic gangster government, where questionable “suicides” are a common occurrence.
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The family of Bill Clinton’s advisor who admitted Jeffrey Epstein into the White House seven times has blocked the release of files detailing the death scene after he was found hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast
By BEN ASHFORD and DANIEL BATES | DAILYMAIL.COM
Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Clinton are seen in 1993 at the White House. Middleton was the authorizing figure who admitted Jeffrey Epstein to the White House on seven of the at least 17 times the late pedophile visited.
The family of Bill Clinton advisor who admitted Jeffrey Epstein into the White House seven times has blocked the release of files detailing the death scene after he was found hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast at a ranch 30 miles from his home.
Here are the key points:
- Top Clinton advisor
Mark Middleton died by suicide at the age of 59 on May
7, the Perry County Sheriff’s Office in Arkansas
confirmed - Middleton was
President Bill Clinton’s special advisor who admitted
Jeffrey Epstein to the White House seven of the at
least 17 times the pedophile visited - The married
father-of-two, who lived in Little Rock, Arkansas,
shot himself at the Heifer Ranch in Perryville, 30
miles away from his home - DailyMail.com
can now reveal Middleton’s father Larry and his widow
Rhea are fighting to keep photos and ‘other
illustrative content’ of his death sealed - The two
filed for an injunction arguing that blocking the
release of the footage would halt a proliferation of
‘unsubstantiated conspiracy theories’ - The
lawsuit claims the family ‘has been harassed by
outlandish, hurtful, unsupported and offensive online
articles’ regarding Middleton and his death - Perry
County Sheriff Scott Montgomery said Middleton was
discovered hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast to
his chest - After
the petition was filed, Montgomery denied
DailyMail.com’s FOIA request for any of his paperwork
on the case
The
family of a top advisor to Bill Clinton who
admitted Jeffrey Epstein to
the White House multiple
times during his presidency is pulling out all the stops
to keep details of his mysterious death becoming public.
They
have petitioned a judge to prevent pictures of Mark
Middleton’s death scene from being released under the Freedom
of Information Act.
And
now the local Arkansas sheriff
is interpreting that to mean he can’t talk or release
any details of Middleton’s May 7 suicide.
‘The
investigation is still open. I can’t say anything more,’
Perry County Sheriff Scott Montgomery told
DailyMail.com.
Middleton,
who served as special assistant to President Bill
Clinton in the 1990s, died at the age of 59, his family
announced last month.
Mark
Middleton, the former special assistant to President
Bill Clinton, died by suicide at the age of 59 on May
7, the Perry County Sheriff’s Office in Arkansas
confirmed

Middleton
was the authorizing figure who admitted Jeffrey
Epstein to the White House on seven of the at least 17
times the late pedophile visited. Epstein, Ghislaine
Maxwell and Clinton are seen in 1993 at the White
House
In
a lawsuit filed on May 23, the family admits Middleton
committed suicide, and says they have ‘a privacy
interest’ in preventing any ‘photographs, videos,
sketches (or) other illustrative content’ from the death
scene being released.
They
claim it would lead to ‘outlandish, hurtful, unsupported
and offensive articles’ being published online.
They
argued that keeping the footage and files sealed would
halt a proliferation of ‘unsubstantiated conspiracy
theories’.
A
judge is due to hear the case on June 14.
After
the petition was filed, Perry County Sheriff Scott
Montgomery denied DailyMail.com’s FOIA request for any
of his paperwork on the case, which would include the
police report and written files, even though they do not
contain any graphic images.
Late
last year, DailyMail.com exclusively revealed Middleton
was among the Clinton advisors and aides who had let
Epstein into the White House during the former
president’s first few years in office.
The
late pedophile made at least 17 trips to the White House
between 1993 and 1995, seven of which were authorized by
Middleton.
The
Clinton aide was also one of the many passengers to fly
on Epstein’s jet, known as the ‘Lolita Express’.
Middleton’s
family last month confirmed he passed away on May 7 in a
statement which did not reveal the cause of death.
It
has since been confirmed that the former advisor, who
lived in Little Rock, Arkansas,
took his own life at the Heifer Ranch in Perryville,
owned by an anti-poverty nonprofit called Heifer
International, 30 miles away from his home.
Middleton also flew on Epstein’s plane and appears to have acted as a conduit between the two men. Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell are seen on the plane
His death adds to the number of close associates of the former President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton who have died unexpectedly, many in small plane crashes. The phenomenon has led to a conspiracy theory called Clinton Body Count which even has its own Wikipedia page.
Judi Gibbs
Judi Gibbs, 32, January 3, 1986: The
one-time Penthouse Pet died alongside her lover
Bill Puterburgh, 57, in an unexplained house
fire in Fordyce, Arkansas. She was a high-class
prostitute who used hotels and racetracks to
pick up rich and powerful men and was known to
have had an affair with then-Arkansas governor
Bill Clinton who would fly her from her home
town to Little Rock. Rumors of a compromising
picture of the two of them were rife, but if it
ever existed, it was probably destroyed in the
fire. The families of both Gibbs and Puterburgh
told DailyMail.com in 2016 they believe the fire
was set deliberately.

Kevin Ives and
Don Henry
Kevin Ives, 17, and Don Henry, 16, August 23, 1987:
The two teens were crushed by a train, in
Alexander, Arkansas. Their deaths were ruled
accidental, with the medical examiner saying they
had fallen asleep on a railroad line after smoking
marijuana, but a grand jury found they had been
murdered before being placed on the tracks. They
had allegedly stumbled on a plot to smuggle drugs
and guns from an airport in Mena, Arkansas, that
Gov. Bill Clinton was said to be involved in.

Victor Raiser
Victor Raiser, 53, July 30, 1992:
The second finance co-chair of Bill Clinton’s
presidential campaign was killed along with his
son in a plane crash during a fishing vacation in
Alaska. Conspiracy theorists believe the crash was
deliberately caused. Campaign press secretary Dee
Dee Myers called Raiser a major player in the
organization.

Paul Tully
Paul Tully, 48, September 25,
1992: The Democratic strategist died of
an apparent heart attack. A chain-smoking,
heavy-drinking political consultant who weighed in
at more than 320 lb. Tully died seven weeks before
Clinton’s first presidential election win. He had
been political director of the DNC during
Clinton’s rise. Tully was on the left of the
Democratic Party and usually worked for those who
shared his views, however he agreed to work for
Clinton because he was impressed with his oratory
and thought he was the only Democrat who could
beat President George Bush.

Paula Gober
Paula Gober, 36, December 7, 1992: Clinton’s
interpreter for the deaf for several years died in
a single car accident. Gober had traveled with him
while he was governor of Arkansas. Her vehicle
overturned on a bend, throwing her 30 feet. There
were no witnesses.

Vince Foster
with Hillary Clinton in 1985
Vince Foster, 48, July 20, 1993: The
Arkansas lawyer committed suicide. President
Clinton appointed Foster to deputy White House
counsel when he became president in 1993. It
didn’t take long for Foster, 48, to realize he had
made a terrible mistake by accepting the post. He
hated the work and fell into a deep depression.
Just six months into the job, his body was found
in his car in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia, a gun in
his hand and a suicide note torn into 27 pieces in
the trunk. Conspiracy theorists believe he was
murdered by the Clintons for knowing too much.
Stanley Heard, 47, September 10,
1993: The Arkansas chiropractor died in a
small plane crash. According to 1998 book ‘A
Profession of One’s Own,’ the doctor treated the
Clinton family. Heard was asked by Bill Clinton to
represent the practice as plans for ‘Hillarycare’
were being finalized. His attorney Steve Dickson,
was flying him home from a healthcare meeting in
Washington DC just eight months into the Clinton
presidency. On the way to the capital from his
home in Kansas, Dickson’s small plane developed
problems so he landed in St. Louis and rented
another plane. That rented plane was the one that
crashed in rural Virginia, killing both men.

Jerry Parks
Jerry Parks, 47, September 23,
1993: The head of security for Bill
Clinton’s headquarters in Arkansas, was shot to
death. As he drove home in West Little Rock, two
men in a white Chevrolet pulled alongside his car
and sprayed it with semi-automatic gunfire. As
Parks’s car stopped a man stepped out of the Chevy
and shot him twice with a 9mm pistol and sped off.
Despite there being several witnesses, no-one was
ever arrested. The killing came two months after
Parks had watched news of Vince Foster’s death and
allegedly told his son Gary ‘I’m a dead man.’ His
wife Lois remarried and her second husband, Dr.
David Millstein was stabbed to death in 2006.
Edward Willey Jr, 60, November 29, 1993:
The Clinton fundraiser was found dead in the
Virginia woods. He was
having serious money problems and his wife, a
volunteer aide in the White House, agreed to ask
Bill Clinton for a paid job. Their meeting ended
when Clinton allegedly forced himself on her in
the Oval Office, kissing her, fondling her breast
and pushing her hand on to his genitals. Four
years later Kathleen Willey wrote a book in which
she put forward a theory that the Clintons may
have had her husband murdered. She said after his
death, a friend had told her that Ed had confided
that he took briefcases full of cash to the
Clintons’ base in Little Rock, Arkansas during
Bill’s first presidential campaign.

Herschel
Friday
Herschel Friday, 70, March 1, 1994:
The Arkansas lawyer died in a small plane crash
when he lost control as he came in to land at his
Arkansas ranch. President Richard Nixon had once
considered Friday for the Supreme Court. He was
known as a benefactor of Bill Clinton, serving on
his campaign finance committee after his law firm
had persuaded the then-governor to support a tax
package that helped the state’s horse racing
industry.
Kathy Ferguson, 37, May 11, 1994: The
ex-wife of Arkansas State Trooper Danny Ferguson,
who was named in a sexual harassment suit brought
by Paula Jones against Bill Clinton. Ferguson died
by gun suicide. She left a note blaming problems
with her fiancé, Bill Shelton. A month later
Shelton, upset about the suicide verdict, killed
himself.

Ron Brown and
Bill Clinton
Ron Brown, 54, April 3, 1996:
The chair of the Democratic National Committee
died in a plane crash in Croatia. He became head
of the DNC during Bill Clinton’s rise to the
presidential nomination and was rewarded with the
cabinet position. He was under a corruption
investigation when his plane slammed into a
mountainside. Doctors who examined his body found
a circular wound on the top of his head which led
to suspicions that he had died before the plane
crashed, but that theory was later discounted. The
crash was attributed to pilot error.

Charles
Meissner
Charles Meissner, 56, April 3, 1996:
The assistant secretary for international trade
died in the same plane crash as Brown. Meissner
had been criticized for allegedly giving special
security clearance to John Huang, who later
pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges for
violating campaign finance laws, in a case that
enmeshed the Clinton administration.
Barbara Wise, 48, November 29, 1996:
Wise, who worked alongside Brown, Meissner and
Huang in the Commerce Department was found dead at
her desk on the day after Thanksgiving. Her death
was originally classified as a homicide but police
later said Wise, 48, who had a history of severe
ill health, had died from natural causes. A local
TV station initially quoted an unidentified police
source as saying her body was partially nude and
her office was locked, but those reports were also
later denied.

Mary Mohaney
Mary Mohaney, 25, July 7, 1997: The
White House intern was gunned down along with two
assistants at the Washington D.C. Starbucks, where
she was night manager. The gay rights activist
reportedly acted as a ‘mother-figure’ to various
women who had allegedly been sexually harassed by
Bill Clinton.

Jim McDougal
Jim McDougal, 57, March 8, 1998: McDougal
and his wife Susan were involved in the Whitewater
real estate scandal that rocked the Clinton
administration. They and the Clintons had invested
$203,000 to buy land in the Ozarks but the venture
failed and McDougal was convicted of corruption
for borrowing money from his Savings and Loan to
cover the cost. He died of a heart attack while in
federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas.

Linda Thompson
Linda Thompson, 56, May 10, 2009: The
founder of the American Justice Foundation and
right-wing radio personality was the person who
drew up the first list of deaths associated with
people who had worked with Clinton in 1994. She died in
St. Petersburg, Florida, when she took an overdose
of medication prescribed for a gastric bypass
surgery that she had had more than a decade
earlier.

John Ashe
John Ashe, 61, June 22, 2016:
The Antiguan politician was pumping iron at his
home in Dobbs Ferry, New York, when he dropped
the weight on his neck. He died from ‘traumatic
asphyxiation. Ashe was about to stand trial in a
corruption case for allegedly receiving $500,000
from billionaire real estate developer Ng Lap
Seng. Ng was involved in a fundraising scandal and
named in a 1998 Senate report for illegally
funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to the
DNC during Bill Clinton’s presidency. ‘During the
trial, the prosecutors would have linked Ashe to
the Clinton bagman Ng. It would have been very
embarrassing. His death was conveniently timed,’
The New York Post reported.

Seth Rich
Seth Rich, 27, July 10, 2016: The
Operations Director for Voter Expansion for the
DNC, was found murdered on in Washington, DC. He
was shot in the back a block from his apartment at
4:20am. His killers have not been identified.
Conspiracy theorists believe Rich may have been
involved in the DNC email leak in 2016. His
death initially appeared like a robbery gone wrong
but his mother Mary Rich claims that nothing was
taken from her son, who was found with two shots in
his back. The mystery surrounding his death sparked
a flurry of theories, including claims that he was
on his way to speak to the FBI when he was shot.

Joe Montano
Joe Montano, 47, July 25, 2016: The
former Democratic National Conference Chairman
with in-depth knowledge of Hillary Clinton’s
campaign, died from what authorities say was a
heart attack – the day that year’s DNC opened.

Victor Thorn
Victor Thorn, 54, August 1, 2016:
The journalist and strong critic of the couple
died on his birthday. Thorn is said to have
climbed a mountain near his State College,
Pennsylvania, home before shooting himself to
death. He wrote a trilogy of books on the
Clintons, devoting one of the books to the number
of their contacts who had mysteriously died.

Shawn Lucas
Shawn Lucas, 38, August 2, 2016:
The lawyer who supported Bernie Sanders, was found
dead on the bathroom floor of his Washington DC
apartment. Just a month earlier he had attempted
to serve papers on Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
in a fraud case that alleged the party had
unfairly favored Hillary Clinton in the primaries
over Sanders. A video of Lucas taking the papers
to the DNC’s Washington headquarters showed Lucas,
who was said to have been a Sanders supporter,
calling serving the papers ‘the most gratifying
thing I have ever done.’

Jeffrey
Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein, 66, August 10, 2019:
The convicted pedophile died in federal prison in
Manhattan, apparently by hanging himself in his
cell. He had attempted suicide three weeks earlier
and was placed on suicide watch. A guard was
supposed to look in on him every 30 minutes but
fell asleep on the night of Epstein’s death.
Clinton had close ties to Epstein and had flown on
his private plane to his private Caribbean island,
but has always denied any involvement in his
illicit activities.
Author: Frances Rice