Embarrassing presidential relatives can often be more trouble than they’re worth. Billy Carter, Ron Reagan Jr., Roger Clinton, Neil Bush, etc. Hillary’s brothers are no exception. According to The Washington Times, Tony Rodham received over $100,000 in “loans” from a carnival company whose owners received a pardon from his brother-in-law, President Clinton. The pardonee filed for bankruptcy in 2002, and now its trustee is trying to recoup the $107,000 “loan” plus $46,034 in interest from Tony.

It may be remembered that Hillary’s other brother, Hugh, was also caught up in the 2000-2001 presidential pardons scandal, when it was discovered he lobbied for a pardon for convicted cocaine dealer Carlos Vignali. Hugh had received $400,000 for obtaining these get-out-of-jail-free cards for Vignali and another unsavory client, but later returned the funds.

But back to Tony. Not only did he get the six-figure “loan” as a result (apparently) of finangling the preisidential pardon, he also didn’t even make any repayment on the “loan” at all. (I keep putting the word “loan” in quotation marks because, let’s face it, it was a payoff. Heck, the reason the carnival owners needed the presidential pardon in the first place was because they “were convicted of bank fraud in 1982 on charges of illegally giving loans to friends.”)

Oddly enough, around the same time Tony was raking in the bucks from the carnies, he was stiffing his then six-year old son and his ex-wife for their child support payments. His ex-wife also just happened to be Sen. Barbara Boxer’s daughter.

If this was the brother of an aspiring Republican presidential candidate, you can bet that it would be loudly and repeatedly proclaimed as a prime example of the horrible "culture of corruption." But since it's Hillary's brother, and it reflects poorly on the (first) Clinton White House, you can also bet that the mainstream media will, for the most part, ignore it.