Word: altmans
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...Roger Altman probably knew his days were numbered when Bill Clinton issued a tepid, one-sentence endorsement of his college chum and campaign fund raiser. In a statement released by Treasury chief Lloyd Bentsen last Monday, Clinton said, "I believe that Roger Altman has been an excellent Deputy Treasury Secretary, and we want him to continue in that capacity." In Washington, where what isn't said is often more important than what is, those less than bracing words of support could have another translation: "Pack your bags...
...Attorney General Janet Reno, a Clinton appointee. Today's development could mean that the entire Whitewater investigation into possible improprieties by the Clinton Administration will have to start from square one. Meanwhile, Congressional hearings wound down with Republicans continuing to call for the resignation of Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman. Today's highlight was a sharp exchange in which White House counsel Lloyd Cutler lashed out at Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee for their partisanship. "You come from a party which while it held the White House was responsible for Watergate and Iran-contra," he said.WHAT NEXT? Expect...
...that Altman has finished two grueling days of interrogation, what do you suppose he intends to do? Sleep? Nah: he's going to the Rolling Stones concert, he says...
Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman told a Senate Banking panel that he had committed no legal or ethical violations during contacts with the White House over the Whitewater affair. He nonetheless apologized for potentially misleading testimony given at an earlier hearing. During intense grilling by committee members, Altman pointed out that three independent investigations had discovered no interference by Clinton Administration officials in the case of the failed Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. Earlier in the day, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen's chief of staff, Joshua Steiner, tried to dismiss the accuracy of entries in his diary, in which...
Testimony in front of the Senate committee investigating the Whitewater affair revealed the most damning evidence to date. Jean Hanson, Treasury Department general counsel, said that her boss, the beleaguered Roger Altman, told her to give the White House information on the Madison Guaranty investigation. Earlier in the day, an official of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) acknowledged that information was given to the Clinton Administration, but that he had no idea the material, regarding the failed Arkansas S&L, would be passed on to the White House. "It was supposed to be confidential . . . and the RTC breached that responsibility...