Word: frauds
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...seller in his future, and also a possible prison sentence. Like his protagonist, in the '80s he was an art dealer with a fondness for heroin. By the '90s he had overcome his drug problems, but questionable business dealings left him with a $4 million debt and allegations of fraud...
...federal judge threw out a fraud indictment against Governor Jim Guy Tucker of Arkansas, the most prominent figure snared in the Whitewater investigation of special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. "This is a major blow to Starr," says Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. "It means that he can no longer go after whomever he wants. His authority is being cut back." Tucker, a Democrat, had been accused of obtaining a federally backed loan under false pretenses and trying to avoid taxes. U.S. District Judge Henry Woods said the charges bore no resemblance to the matters Starr has been assigned to investigate. Ratan cautions...
McDougal was tried and acquitted in 1990 on bank-fraud charges stemming from the failure of his S&L. Last week he said he would fight the new indictment. "It's going to be fun for everybody except for this Republican prosecutor who is bringing these bogus, fabricated charges," McDougal said. His ex-wife Susan will also fight the charges...
...cooperation. He remains unsentenced and reportedly under protective custody. But while Hale may have helped take the spotlight off the White House last week, he has other allegations that may, if Starr chooses to give them credence, still trouble the Clintons. Shortly after being indicted on other loan-fraud charges in September 1993, Hale claimed that on two occasions Bill Clinton personally pressured him to give Susan McDougal a $300,000 SBA loan. Later, about $25,000 of that SBA-backed money was used to buy a property that briefly passed through Whitewater Development Corp. in late 1986. If Hale...
...Clinton associates in the Whitewater deal were indicted by a federal grand jury in Little Rock. James McDougal and his former wife Susan were named in a 21-count indictment that included charges of fraud, conspiracy and making false statements to obtain federally backed loans. And there were 11 new charges against Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, who did legal work for the failed savings and loan owned by the McDougals. (Tucker was indicted in June on separate charges.) President Clinton and his wife were not charged-as an accompanying press release from independent counsel Kenneth Starr pointed...