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Politics & The Nation With a phone message, Ginni Thomas stirs an old controversy thomas from A1 She has also been establishing
a public identity, speaking out on cable news shows and at rallies. Themorning shemade the call
to Hill, Thomas was receiving another kind of attention on the front page of the Times. Its story questioned whether
her new prominence and accep- tance of large, anonymous con- tributions for Liberty Central — including two gifts of $500,000 and $50,000 — might raise con-
flict-of-interest questions for her husband. Whether Ginni Thomas ex-
pected her call to Hill to become public is not known. But it had at least one consequence that she probably did not anticipate: It prompted a former girlfriend of her husband’s, who had kept her silence since the 1991 controver- sy, to say publicly that she found Hill’s testimony credible. Lillian McEwen, a retired ad-
ministrative law judge who said she dated Clarence Thomas from
1979 through themid-1980s, told TheWashington Post: “The Clar- ence I know was certainly capa- ble of not only doing the things that Anita Hill said he did, but it would be totally consistent with the way he lived his personal life then.” Those who know Ginni Thom-
as say she has never gotten over the controversy, and she had said publicly that she hoped Hill would apologize someday. In the aftermath of the confir- mation hearings, she dedicated
herself to repairing her hus- band’s image. In a first-person article for People magazine pub- lished shortly after hewas seated on the court, hiswife likenedHill to the spurned woman in the movie “Fatal Attraction” and added: “I always believed she was probably someone in love with my husband and never got what she wanted.” In 1993, Ginni Thomas attend-
ed a book party for author David Brock upon the publication of his book “The Real Anita Hill,”
which raised questions about Hill’s credibility.When he admit- ted in a subsequent book, “Blind- ed by the Right,” that his Hill reporting had been slanted, he became a pariah among conser- vatives. A concerned Thomas left a voicemail for Brock saying that she was praying for himand that she hoped they could still be friends. And in November 1999, after
Washington Post reporter Tom Jackman wrote a story about a man who had been falsely ac-
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cused of indecent exposure, Jack- man received a call from a dis- traught woman who said it re- minded her of the ordeal she and her husband had suffered. “My husband’s name is Clar-
ence Thomas,” she said. “She’s still affected by it. I just
pray and hope she can find peace with this situation,” said conser- vative commentator Armstrong Williams, who was once an aide to Clarence Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Com- mission. “This is not even about the justice. It’s about his wife. This is Ginni Thomas. It was obviously something she needed to do.” In a statement released by her
publicist, Ginni Thomas said her call to Hill was an effort to extend “an olive branch to her after all these years, in hopes that we could ultimately get past what happened so long ago.” But there was more grievance
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Ginni Thomas,” it said. “I just wanted to reach across the air- waves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explana- tion of why you did what you did withmy husband.” It continued: “So give it some
thought. And certainly pray about this and hope that one day you will help us understand why you did what you did. Okay, have a good day.” Hill said she initially thought
the callmight be a prank, and she asked the FBI to look into it. Law enforcement sources said the FBI is not investigating because there is no apparent federal crime.
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Prescriptions land doctor, wife in prison
BY ROXANA HEGEMAN
wichita—AKansas doctor who ran a clinic linked to dozens of overdose deaths was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison, and his wife got 33 years, in a case the judge said was an “avoidable tragedy motivated by greed.” The doctor, Stephen Schneider,
looked grim, and his wife, Linda, blinked back tears as their sen- tences were pronounced in U.S. District Court in Wichita. TheHaysville couple were con-
victed in June of unlawfully writ- ing prescriptions, health-care fraud and money laundering. Ju- rors convicted them of a money- making conspiracy that prosecu- tors linked to 68 overdose deaths. U.S. District Judge Monti L.
Belot told the doctor, 57, the evi- dence showed that he earned and deserved the nickname “Sch- neider the Writer” because in many cases writing prescriptions was his only form of medical care. “For whatever reason, Steven Schneider utterly failed to live up to his oath to ‘do no harm,’ ” he said. The judge said the doctor was
put on every possible notice that the controlled substances he was prescribing—particularly the po- tent painkiller Actiq — was ad- dicting, harming and killing his patientsbutdidnothingto stop it. Belot had some of his most
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scathing comments for Linda Schneider, 52, who has a nursing degree but did not practice medi- cine at the clinic, where she was an office manager. He characterized her as more
culpable for creating and perpet- uating the clinic as a generator of income rather than a place for competent care. He blamed the doctor for knowing that the clinic wasmismanagedanddoing noth- ing to stop the practice. The government had asked for
a life sentence, noting that jurors found that the Schneiders’ con- duct resulted in serious bodily injury to 14 people, and the deaths of 10 patients. The defense had asked for the minimum man- datory 20 years in prison. “It wasn’t what we asked for,
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but we were pleased with the sentencing being less than what the government requested,” said Lawrence Williamson, the doc- tor’s defense attorney. “But we still maintain he is innocent of these charges and will be filing an appeal pretty soon.” Kevin Byers, the lawyer repre-
senting Linda Schneider, said they were grateful that the couple did not get life sentences and that the judge gave the wife just three years more than her husband. —Associated Press
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