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Stephens is in fact still investigating the collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan for the RTC, the government body that cleans up the affairs of failed S&Ls, in part to look for evidence of fraud that would enable the RTC to file civil claims to recover some of the $47 million that Madison's failure cost taxpayers. That probe would almost inevitably delve into the alleged flow of money between Madison and Whitewater Development Co., in which the Clintons were partners with James McDougal, Madison's former owner. Thus the participants in the vain attempt to get Stephens...
...Ames spy case. Nonetheless, Stephanopoulos and Ickes found time to call Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, who was also acting head of the RTC, using the speakerphone in Stephanopoulos' office. They had just learned that Altman had finally decided to disqualify himself from dealing with any matters related to Madison because of previous contacts with the White House staff about the RTC's investigation. The White House aides were furious about the recusal -- for weeks they had urged Altman not to do it -- and were even more put out that they had learned of it only after Altman had divulged...
Stephens and other lawyers in the Washington office of San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro have been retained by the Resolution Trust Corporation to investigate civil claims flowing from the failure of Little Rock's Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, the institution run by James McDougal, the Clintons' partner in Whitewater Development Corp. Stephens won't elaborate on his work, which began last month, but it's likely to bring more heat on Clinton. Sources close to the investigation describe Pillsbury's effort as "the civil equivalent of ((Whitewater special counsel Robert)) Fiske...
...With its staff taxed to the limit, the RTC routinely farms out complicated legal work to private lawyers. But the agency didn't pick just anyone. Stephens, says a banking regulator, "was deliberately chosen so the RTC could deflect any charges that it wasn't being rigorous in its Madison- related investigations...
...listeners remarking plaintively that Mitchell ought to know how to find somebody skilled in money laundering? The onetime chief law-enforcement officer of the country being mentioned as a conduit to recruit a successful crook! What comparison can be drawn between that and meetings concerning the Madison investigation between Treasury officers and White House aides that some commentators doubt can be considered improper...