Rodham seeks to reopen loan case

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother Anthony D. Rodham is asking a bankruptcy judge to reopen a case in which he was ordered to repay more than $100,000 in loans from a carnival company whose founder was pardoned by President Clinton.

The request, filed Thursday in a Nashville federal court, comes weeks after Mr. Rodham was barred from taking money out of a bank account containing about $142,000.

According to a court-appointed trustee for the bankrupt estate of Tennessee-based United Shows of America Inc., Mr. Rodham received $107,000 in loans from the company but never repaid them.

The disputed loans became an issue when United Shows went bankrupt in 2002 and control of its finances was placed in the hands of the trustee, Michael E. Collins.

Mr. Collins is seeking the return of $107,000 plus $46,034 in interest from Mr. Rodham, 51.

Last year, Mr. Collins won a default judgment in a federal bankruptcy court in Nashville against Mr. Rodham, who was ordered to repay the loans.

In June, Mr. Collins filed papers in an Alexandria bankruptcy court to garnish the bank account of Mr. Rodham, who lives in Virginia. A hearing on the matter has been scheduled for later this month.

United Shows was founded by Edgar Gregory Jr. He and his wife, Vonna Jo, received a pardon from Mr. Clinton in 2000 over the objections of the Justice Department. They had been convicted of bank fraud in 1982.

They were accused of illegally giving unsound loans to entities under their control. Mr. Gregory died in 2004.

Mr. Collins won a default judgment because Mr. Rodham never filed responses in the case.