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...came last week. In the fraud-and-conspiracy trial brought by Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, a jury in Little Rock returned 24 guilty verdicts against Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker and Clinton's former partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim and Susan McDougal. After nine weeks of dry courtroom exposition, the jury essentially concluded that the defendants had used McDougal's savings and loan as a private cookie jar, dipping into it for bogus loans to bankroll their many business schemes. Clinton wasn't a defendant in the case (merely a witness for the defense), and most jurors...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Chastened by the convictions this week of Jim and Susan McDougal, the White House has decided to give a little ground in another scandal percolating in Washington. Facing a contempt-of-Congress vote against three current and former White House aides, the Administration provided the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee with more than 1,000 pages of documents related to the firing of seven travel-office employees early in 1993. The Administration also provided a list of 2,000 pages it is still withholding, citing executive privilege, a clause most often invoked on matters of national security...
...directed to repay the government $2.04 million. Hale pled guilty in March 1994 to two felony charges of defrauding the Small Business Administration in order to receive matching federal funds for his investments. Hale has said that in 1986, then Arkansas governor Clinton and his Whitewater partner James McDougal pressured him to make a $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal. At today's sentencing, the federal judge was unconvinced of Hale's claims. "The facts show overwhelmingly that you willingly operated this service for these people," the judge said. "You're not a victim. You're anything but a victim...
...Vince has some records he's supposed to return, and I need to speak to him," McDougal explained. The secretary said she'd give him the message...
Foster evidently did get the message. The same day, he called Jim Blair in Arkansas. "I don't want Jim McDougal calling me at the White House," Foster told Blair. Blair told Foster not to worry. "I'll take care of it," he said...