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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suit promises to become another p.r. headache for the RTC, which has already come under scrutiny for leaks involving Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, the Arkansas thrift at the center of the Whitewater affair. And it will get thornier if six other fence sitters join the plaintiffs. One of these, L. Jean Lewis, prepared criminal referrals on Madison that mentioned President Clinton...
...also backs universal coverage, Harris-Heidenreich couldn't care less about the President's personal and legal scandals -- so long as he gets results. "Look, if Clinton can change this country, then he can have all the affairs he wants and he can even run his own savings and loan," she says. Notes Dayton's Republican Mayor Mike Turner: "I don't think the character issue would be such a problem if Clinton were more effective...
...familiar words another Whitewater casualty (and Clinton confidant) left the Administration. Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman's position had become politically untenable after Democrats as well as Republicans accused him of misleading Congress about his contacts with the White House over an investigation of the Arkansas savings and loan at the heart of the affair. A day after Altman walked the plank, he was followed by Jean Hanson, the chief Treasury lawyer, who had been criticized for failing to correct misstatements she knew Altman had made in congressional testimony...
...anxious that last week the White House called on a sullied though solid political operator. When Tony Coelho quit the House in 1989, he held the third-ranking party post and seemed destined to be Speaker. But he had accepted a questionable loan to buy junk bonds. Rather than undergo an ethics probe, he embarked on a successful investment-banking career...
...World Bank, which have surfaced in several academic books and in speeches by congressional leaders, have pushed president Lewis Preston, a former chairman of the J.P. Morgan banking company, to initiate what may become historic changes at the bank. In 1992 he launched an overhaul of the $104 billion loan portfolio and a year later hired New York public relations whiz Herb Schmertz to revamp the institution's image. Schmertz turned in a confidential report several months ago that acknowledged some of the most serious accusations against the bank and said there exists "a significant gap" between what the bank...