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...fact, the fund was turned over to Jones herself -- to be used, sources say, for tickets to Little Rock or clothing for TV interviews. All perfectly legitimate, but hardly litigious expenses. And that, according to TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan is what got Rutherford all riled up. "They want truth in advertising," says Branegan. Especially when Jones' legal costs are spiralling up towards $800,000, and Rutherford itself has only raised...
...Since then, an uneasy truce has settled over the Jones campaign. "There's a ceasefire," says Branegan. "Whitehead is not happy about this fund, but he's not going to do anything about it." Except, that is, for unconfirmed reports that Whitehead has turned over copies of those letters to Judge James Henry Michael in Charlottesville, who is investigating President Clinton?s claims that Paula Jones brought her suit for personal profit. If that is true, Whitehead may have taken his ultimate revenge on the Legal Fund -- and shot the Jones case in the foot...
...this evidence would be mentioned in the trial itself, since testimony concerning Monica Lewinsky was barred from the case by Judge Susan Webber Wright. So why use it? Because, they hope, it hits the Clinton case harder than any courtroom battle. "This," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "is going to be their fullest shot at the President." Whether they get a chance to throw some more punches is now in the Judge's hands...
...Without his words, no one knows if Jones -- who began her suit after Brock's article appeared in the American Spectator in 1993 -- would be embroiled in legal action today. "The ironic thing for the President," notes TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "is that if no one connects 'Paula' to Paula Jones, she doesn't file her sexual harassment suit and the name Monica Lewinsky never even comes up." Now Brock has retracted his story, and Jones' case is crumbling. Her lawyers are expected to go to appeal Tuesday in a bid to get the Lewinsky evidence reinstated...
...With reporting by Jay Branegan, Viveca Novak and Michael Weisskopf/Washington