Controversial Presidential Pardon Figure. He and his wife, Vonna Jo Gregory, received pardons from President Clinton, on March 15, 2000 for 1982 bank fraud convictions in Alabama. Their pardons sparked a congressional investigation into $240,000 in undocumented consulting fees Gregory paid to Tony Rodham, the brother of former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Gregory’s denied the payments were related to the pardon requests. He operated Smyrna-based United Shows and Gregory Entertainment in the mid-1980s. The companies ran state carnivals and fairs, owned memorabilia and royalty rights to songs by the late country music singers Jim Reeves and Faron Young. Through business contacts he became close friends with the "singing cowboy," Gene Autry, and his wife, Jackie and also sat on the board of Autry's Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles. He died from pulmonary lung disease, in Brentwood Tennessee at age 66.
Controversial Presidential Pardon Figure. He and his wife, Vonna Jo Gregory, received pardons from President Clinton, on March 15, 2000 for 1982 bank fraud convictions in Alabama. Their pardons sparked a congressional investigation into $240,000 in undocumented consulting fees Gregory paid to Tony Rodham, the brother of former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Gregory’s denied the payments were related to the pardon requests. He operated Smyrna-based United Shows and Gregory Entertainment in the mid-1980s. The companies ran state carnivals and fairs, owned memorabilia and royalty rights to songs by the late country music singers Jim Reeves and Faron Young. Through business contacts he became close friends with the "singing cowboy," Gene Autry, and his wife, Jackie and also sat on the board of Autry's Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles. He died from pulmonary lung disease, in Brentwood Tennessee at age 66.
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
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