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Following through on a peripheral investigation, Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr obtained a federal indictment against Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, accusing him of submitting a false loan application and of conspiring to defraud the irs in connection with a complex cable-TV deal. Tucker denied any wrongdoing. In a separate development, the counsel obtained a guilty plea from Stephen Smith, a former Clinton gubernatorial aide, for conspiring to misapply loan funds. Neither the Tucker charges nor the Smith plea implicate either the President or Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...saysTIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. Worse for Clinton, Ratan says, the Smith and Tucker indictments suggest that prosecutors find credence in the related story of Little Rock judge David Hale, who -- in the most damaging charge to date -- has accused the President of participating in a 1986 scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration...
...rarely see a deliberate attempt to defraud the system," he said...
...similar case against an attorney who was accused of defrauding Dime, federal Judge Edward F. Harrington directed a verdict for the defendant on the grounds that he did not defraud a federally insured institution but its distinct subsidiary...
Walsh, who declined to comment yesterday, tried to defraud a branch of the Dime Savings Bank of New York...