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...Arkansas: Ending six days of deliberation, the federal jury in the second Whitewater trial acquitted two Arkansas bankers on four counts of conspiring to illegally use bank money to fund Bill Clinton's 1990 bid for governor. The jury remained hopelessly deadlocked on the remaining seven counts against Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert M. Hilland and the judge declared a mistrial on those charges. That action leaves open the possibility that Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr could call for a retrial on those charges. What the bankers can not be retried for is the charge that they conspired to conceal from...
Starr's major coup last week was to get Washington to tear itself away from the fang baring on Capitol Hill and take note of the opening of the second Whitewater trial in Little Rock, Arkansas. Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert Hill, joint owners of a bank in microscopic Perryville, Arkansas (pop. 1,141), are charged with illegally channeling funds to Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign. The two men allegedly failed to notify the irs that they let Clinton's campaign withdraw $30,000 at one time--banks must report any cash transaction over $10,000--by disguising the withdrawal...
...Second Little Rock Trial. On June 17 Arkansas bankers Herby Branscum and Robert Hill go to trial for allegedly submitting $13,000 in phony expense vouchers to their bank, then using some of the money to reimburse themselves and others for contributions to Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign. Defense attorneys call the case prosecutorial overkill, a multimillion-dollar probe of a small-potatoes violation, but it could tie Clinton more closely to wrongdoing than the McDougal trial did and will probably force him to testify again. Branscum was a key Clinton moneyman, and Clinton made him state highway commissioner...