Word: altmans
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...MUCH TOUGHER RECEPTION lay waiting in the Senate, where Republicans on the Banking Committee had uncovered new details about Altman's efforts to keep himself and White House officials informed of the RTC's investigation of Madison Guaranty S&L. The Senate committee had a special reason to double- check Altman's story: at a hearing earlier this year, he repeatedly told the committee that he knew of only one meeting on the RTC case between the Treasury and the White House -- on Feb. 2 of this year. Altman hewed to the line that the Feb. 2 meeting -- attended...
More revisions may be coming. Several Senators now report that Altman's interest in the Madison case began nearly a year earlier. Republican Senators who have reviewed the evidence say Altman asked RTC senior staff members on March 22, 1993, to keep him personally informed of "politically sensitive" cases. When that meeting concluded, RTC senior vice president William Roelle pulled Altman aside and informed him of the ongoing probe against Madison Guaranty. Two days later, Altman faxed a copy of a 1992 New York Times story on Madison and Whitewater to White House counsel Nussbaum. On Sept. 24, 1993, with...
...Altman told Roelle he would ask Jean Hanson, the Treasury Department's chief counsel, to call Roelle for a briefing. On Sept. 27, Roelle briefed Hanson on the case, reminding her that the sensitive information was for Altman's ears only. But Hanson maintains Altman directed her later that day to inform Nussbaum of the development. Hanson says she complied two days later, then wrote a memo dated Sept. 30 in which she reported the contact with Nussbaum and associate White House counsel Clifford Sloan. Altman does not recall telling Hanson to brief Nussbaum and says he doesn't recall...
Secretary Bentsen, who surprisingly was neither interviewed nor deposed by special prosecutor Fiske, now faces additional questions about his role. So Cutler could prepare for the hearings, last weekend Bentsen turned over to him copies of interviews with Altman, Hanson and White House aide George Stephanopoulos that had been conducted by the Treasury's inspector general -- this before the I.G.'s report had been completed. Sherman Funk, a veteran inspector general in Washington, called Bentsen's action "totally inappropriate...
...investigators also cast doubt on the curious contention by White House officials during the House hearings that they were entitled to otherwise confidential information about the Madison probe because they would have to deal with "press inquiries" about it. Roelle indicated in his Senate deposition that he reported to Altman in September not in response to press inquiries but because he had learned from a regional RTC office that the criminal referrals were going forward. Indeed, the first media story about the referral did not break for another month...