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Lindsey can take comfort in the fact that when he was last snared by the Starr machine, he came out intact. In 1996 Starr named him as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the case of two Arkansas bankers, Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert M. Hill, who were involved in Clinton's 1990 campaign for Governor. Lindsey was accused of trying to persuade Branscum and Hill not to file the required federal forms when the campaign made large transactions in cash. Lindsey testified that he made no such effort. The jury acquitted Branscum and Hill of some charges and deadlocked...
...part of a questionable real estate scheme. Starr has also won convictions of Webb Hubbell, the former associate attorney general, for bilking his own law firm and clients, and of the Clintons' former Whitewater partners Jim and Susan McDougal. His last indictments, brought 18 months ago, were against Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert Hill, two officers of the Perry County Bank in Perryville, Ark. Starr charged them with misappropriating $13,000 that he thought might be linked to an attempt by White House adviser Bruce Lindsey, who was then campaign treasurer of Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial race, to conceal some...
...major setback to Starr. Branscum's attorney, Dan Guthrie, a former federal prosecutor himself, complains that Starr applied the full firepower of his office to a case that might ordinarily have been relegated to banking regulators. "No prosecutor's office anywhere would even take that case," says Guthrie, who charges that Starr's office also continually leaked negative stories to the press. "His tenure is a classic example of how not to prosecute these cases...
Since the acquittal of Hill and Branscum, the momentum of Starr's investigation has slowed. Before Monica Lewinsky came along, his best hope at snagging the Clintons was still the claim by David Hale, a former Arkansas municipal judge, that Clinton had put improper pressure on him to okay a loan to Madison Guaranty, a charge Clinton denies. Jim McDougal also denied it before his May 1996 conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges. After that, as part of a deal for a lighter sentence, he changed his story. But that change makes McDougal an admitted perjurer--not the most effective...
ACQUITTED. HERBY BRANSCUM JR. and ROBERT M. HILL, owners of Perry County Bank, of four felony counts, including conspiracy to hide from the irs cash withdrawals by the 1990 Clinton gubernatorial campaign; in Little Rock, Arkansas. The decision appears to clear Clinton aide Bruce Lindsey, an unindicted co-conspirator in the case. Any prosecution of Lindsey for perjury, which Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr has been said to want, is now highly unlikely...