Hillary 'dismayed' by cash-for-pardons revelations

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said she ‘‘did not have any involvement’’ in the pardons her husband granted on his way out of the White House and expressed dismay that her brother was paid lavishly to lobby for the relief of two men.

‘‘If I had known about this, we wouldn’t have been standing here today,’’ the former First Lady said yesterday of her brother, lawyer Hugh Rodham, and the 400,000 (£275,000) he received from two pardon-seekers. Had she known, the Democratic senator added at a crowded news conference, ‘‘I might have been able to prevent this from happening.’’