11 Years Ago This Month: Clinton Pardons Cisneros

Eleven years ago this month, in January 2001, as one of his last official acts as president, Bill Clinton pardoned U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros. After a four-year federal investigation, the former mayor of San Antonio had been indicted on 18 charges and convicted of lying to the FBI about how much money he had paid his mistress, gold-digging whore Linda Medlar.

Cisneros is one of the characters covered in "Paying for It, Lying About It — And Getting Away With It," one of the chapters in the "Sex" section of Texas Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in the Lone Star State!