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Henry Cisneros, the former HUD Secretary, was convicted of lying to the FBI about payments to a mistress. His mistress, Linda Medlar Jones, was pardoned as well; neither application went through Justice...
...judge court today appointed David Barrett, a former counsel to the House ethics committee, to investigate whether HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros committed a crime by misleading the FBI about payments to his former mistress during pre-confirmation background checks. "Information provided by Secretary Cisneros concerning his payments to (Linda) Medlar was false," Reno told a special court when she asked for the appointment March 14. People familiar with the case have said a number of lawyers who were approached for the position took themselves out of consideration because they had done legal work involving Cisneros' department...
...Secretary Henry Cisneros agreed to pay his former mistress $49,000 to settle her lawsuit accusing him of reneging on a promise to support her financially after their breakup. Linda Medlar, who had a two-year affair with Cisneros when he was mayor of San Antonio in the late 1980s, had claimed he bailed out of an agreement to pay her $4,000 a month. Cisneros had freely admitted to the affair, but he now faces an independent counsel probe into whether he lied to FBI agents before his HUD confirmation about past payments to Medlar...
Housing Secretary HENRY CISNEROS is being sued by former mistress, Linda Medlar, who says he broke an "oral contract" to pay her $4,000 a month for damages following the exposure of their affair in 1990. Cisneros, who reconciled with his wife, denies a contract but admits giving Medlar "intermittent" $4,000 payments as well as $36,000 as a final settlement. The Secretary told TIME he leased a car for Medlar, gave her a $16,000 down payment on a house and paid her daughter's tennis-camp tuition. Medlar says she received no settlement, no car, no tuition...
...woman who had an affair with U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros filed a lawsuit against him, claiming he stopped paying her an agreed-to $4,000 a month. Cisneros has admitted that he and Linda Medlar had a two-year affair when he was mayor of San Antonio in the late 1980s. She says she wants payments until her 16-year-old daughter graduates from college...