Hillary Tries to Take Serbian Baller to the Hole, And1

Senator Hillary Clinton will not give up in her attempts to bring Miladin Kovacevic back to the US in order to face due process. Kovacevic fled the country after being accused of beating Brooklyn's Bryan Steinhauer within an inch of his life this past spring. Since there has not been a great deal of cooperation from Serbian officials in extraditing Kovacevic, Hillary is now trying to pull at the purse strings of the Serbian basketball league he has signed to play with. The senator sent a letter yesterday to sneaker company AND1 and several other corporate backers encouraging them to pull their sponsorship from the league. While Serbian justice officials are still saying that there is not enough evidence to force Kovacevic back to the States, last week the diplomat who falsified a passport in order to allow him to leave the US was sentenced to a month in jail.

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By Billy Parker in News on September 10, 2008 2:20 PM

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savindan

Highly unlikely that MK becomes a national hero as he gets absolutely no media coverage, in fact we would not have even heard of him were it not for attention-craved Senators of yours who seem to think Serbia is easy prey for their attacks that border on bigotry.

Blocking EU entry over a diplomatic row which can not be settled to Washington's content just because the US signed a bilateral agreement with Serbia which PREVENTS extradition between the two countries?

Why did the county court, other than for reasons of desperate need of money, even set bail for the guy if there was a flight risk?

Think2wice

Hmmm, now this is the Hillary I like.

Methinks that with the Oval Office off the tables (for a while at least) she may be more effective Senator. (TT crosses his fingers).

NannyState

No E.U. for Serbia. Didn't you notice? The U.S. has the veto on E.U. applications, a veto we earned 65 years ago.

aveB4life

creative title to this article. me likey

berniegoetz

She needs to pressure Sarkozy who is the current EU pres. Serbia could care less what America thinks but wants to get into the EU big time.

fortyver

I can't believe that meathead was even considered for any basketball team. Looks more like a football player to me, not european football either. Hope that dumbass sees some time, but probably will be feted as a national hero. Argh!!!