Word: lindseyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stakes for this trial. So did the fact that the charges involve Clinton campaign finances. Even so, the trial might not have provided much drama if Starr had not bitten hard into the White House by indicating that he will name the President's close friend and adviser Bruce Lindsey, who was treasurer of Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign, as an unindicted co-conspirator, a term popularized during Watergate. With that, Starr attached two scandals by prosaic association. Like the little cookie in Proust, the words bring on a flood of memories, in this case most of them foul...
What the phrase means in strictly legal terms is that prosecutors may not have enough evidence to charge Lindsey but believe he is linked to a crime. The court will now be able to hear testimony about things that he may have said concerning the alleged crimes that would otherwise be inadmissible as hearsay. That testimony will probably come from the bank's ex-president Neal Ainley, the chief prosecution witness, who has already pleaded guilty to failing to report cash transactions from the campaign...
...Lindsey says the campaign money was withdrawn in small amounts to keep it from the notice of Clinton's political opponents, not the irs, and that it was duly reported on campaign-finance documents after the election. "Any suggestion that my writing four checks was intended to mislead bank regulators is simply false," he said, after emerging suddenly from the West Wing and intercepting reporters on the White House driveway. He will take the witness stand sometime this summer; Clinton will testify by videotape...
Whenever scandal has rocked the White House, Bruce Lindsey has been at the center of the cleanup effort, calling around his native Arkansas to gather information and enlist allies, devising legal strategy with the President's other lawyers, steering journalists away from negative conclusions and soothing the President just by being there, ready to watch a movie or play a game of hearts...
...LINDSEY M. TURRENTINE...