Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whitewater now seems destined to dog the Clintons throughout this election year. In Little Rock last week, Jim and Susan McDougal, along with Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, began to stand trial on felony charges brought by independent counsel Kenneth Starr; they are accused of fraud, conspiracy and making or causing to be made false statements to a financial institution. When Hillary Clinton testified before a grand jury last January, she made history: never before had a First Lady been summoned to do that. A memo that had been subpoenaed two years ago by independent counsel Robert Fiske was discovered...
Many of the events described in this excerpt are being investigated by independent counsel Starr. The bankers in Flippin, Arkansas, involved in the Whitewater loan, for example, have testified before the grand jury and have been instructed by Starr's staff not to speak about what they know. The Clintons' and McDougals' activities in Whitewater, involving federally regulated banks, savings and loans, federal taxes, favors bestowed and accepted, are areas covered by a network of criminal and civil laws. Under federal law Title 18, section 1344, for example, it may be a crime to submit a false financial-disclosure statement...
...financial statement refers to Whitewater. He offered no explanation for the asset values on the Clintons' disclosure forms other than to say that land values in northern Arkansas rose in the late 1980s, adding that the Clintons had used "their best estimate." Ron Proctor, citing instructions from the independent counsel, declined comment, as did Wes Strange...
...specialized in securities law, and a corporate partner at Rose, David Knight, hoping to land Madison business, had lunch in the spring of 1985 with John Latham, whom McDougal had hired as Madison Guaranty's chief executive officer. But the lunch proved fruitless: Latham said Madison already had outside counsel and didn't plan to hire others...
...serve Bill and Hillary Clinton. A partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, he had worked closely with Hillary for nearly 15 years; between Clinton's election and Inauguration, Foster had helped negotiate the end of the Clintons' Whitewater partnership with Jim McDougal. As deputy White House counsel, Foster tended to see himself as representing Hillary's interests, according to his boss, Bernard Nussbaum. In addition Foster remained the Clintons' personal lawyer during his White House stint. In the Administration's first few months, Foster seemed increasingly beaten down by controversies, especially the White House's inept handling...