Word: mcdougals
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...much better person today than the one you sentenced," Susan McDougal told Judge George Howard Jr. yesterday after he reduced her sentence to time served. "I promise you won't be sorry." But to stay out of prison, McDougal will have to persuade more judges and juries of the same -- or at least convince them of the deterioration of her spinal condition that persuaded Judge Howard to free her on compassionate grounds. The former Clinton Whitewater associate goes to trial in California next month on charges she embezzled $150,000 from the conductor Zubin Mehta when she worked...
...same, a deal is not a foregone conclusion. Earlier Whitewater targets have complained that Starr and his prosecutors demand very specific testimony in exchange for immunity. Just as Susan McDougal and Webb Hubbell have done, Lewinsky and her lawyers may decide he wants more than they can reasonably--or truthfully--give him. "Starr's record has been to try to persuade and pressure witnesses to tell them what he needs," says former presidential aide Lanny Davis. "These two [lawyers] will not put up with that...
...other Starr witnesses looked a lot less promising. He could indict Susan McDougal for criminal contempt before his Arkansas grand jury packs up and goes home this week, but she has already shown that she prefers ankle chains to testifying against the President. And although Starr indicted Clinton pal Webb Hubbell last week (along with his wife Suzanna, his lawyer and his accountant), it was only for alleged tax crimes that are typically handled as civil matters, which even some of Starr's supporters felt was a stretch. Sources tell TIME that Starr's office is weighing still more charges...
...SUSAN MCDOUGAL Like Liddy, paying a price for silence. Will she get a radio...
Tucker's first day of secret testimony, March 18, was devoted to a six-hour tour of the Clintons' real estate history. Starr apparently hoped he would provide more details about Hillary's role in a house-of-cards residential development called Castle Grande, which Jim McDougal financed through his savings-and-loan, Madison Guaranty. Federal regulators called Castle Grande a sham. Af-ter earning $2 million in commissions and fees for McDougal's associates, it collapsed in 1989 (cost to taxpayers: $4 million), helping trigger the $50 million failure of Madison. In sworn statements to federal regulators, Hillary said...