Word: lindseyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: Vernon Jordan has been spared his day before the grand jury Thursday, bumped by fellow Clinton confidant Bruce Lindsey and a legal tussle over executive privilege. But Jordan, the Washington power broker, is back in the media spotlight ? and faces a growing pile of evidence that he was far more wrapped up in the Monica Lewinsky affair than he has previously admitted...
...days on the stand before Ken Starr's grand jury, Bruce Lindsey has been doing most of his talking in judge's chambers. Lawyers on both sides are haggling with U.S. District Judge Norma Hollaway Johnson over what questions Lindsey has to answer. "It's a dance," says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief J.F.O. McAllister. "The White House people say 'We don't want you to ask him that,' and Starr's side says, 'Well, what if we do?' And then the White House threatens to invoke executive privilege...
...Questions Clinton confidant Bruce Lindsey visits Ken Starr's grand jury, and takes 10 White House lawyers along. Chances are someone will whisper the magic words: Executive privilege...
...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...
...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 illegal campaign borrowing. In September 1996 both men were acquitted, though the jury deadlocked on other charges...