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...welfare, cannot support them. Whitewater questions did not faze her. The First Lady continued to portray her family as victims of an affair she described as a "sideshow." Later in the week, however, her friend Webster Hubbell, who quit last March as Associate Attorney General, tentatively agreed to plead guilty to charges brought by the Whitewater special prosecutor that he had committed mail fraud and tax evasion when he worked alongside Mrs. Clinton at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock...
...Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell has agreed to plead guilty to two criminal charges stemming from his days as a Little Rock lawyer and is cooperating with a special prosecutor's probe of the Whitewater affair, according to news reports. Hubbell, a 15-year Clinton insider andformer partner of Mrs. Clinton, resigned from the number three spot at the Justice Departmentlast Marchamid accusations that he submitted false billings to the government. Even though the charges against Hubbell are only tangentially related to Whitewater, his deal withIndependent Counsel Kenneth Starris an embarrassment for the Administration and may put the long time...
...Absence, Douglas Turner Ward's one-act play of 1965, a Southern town wakes up one morning to find that all its black people have disappeared. The result is so chaotic -- garbage piling up, houses left uncleaned, meals uncooked -- that the whites plead for the blacks to come back. Thirty years later, racial satire has taken a bleaker turn. In Space Traders -- one of three episodes of Cosmic Slop, an HBO anthology series from Reginald and Warrington Hudlin (who wrote and directed the film House Party) -- aliens arrive on earth with a modest proposal for the U.S. government...
...McNall, 44, stands to collect a prison sentence that could run up to nine years in the worst case. As early as this week, McNall is expected to plead guilty to four federal counts charging him with bank fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy. Two of his associates have already been accused of defrauding banks and other creditors, fleecing investors of more than $138 million by falsifying financial statements, setting up phony companies to hide assets and securing loans with fictitious collateral. Last month three others pleaded guilty to wire-fraud charges...
...dons. "The Cali cartel dictated the penal-code reform," he says. Under the 1993 code revisions, drug traffickers who turn themselves in can have their sentences reduced by as much as two-thirds at the discretion of a judge or prosecutor. Any pending charges to which they do not plead are dismissed and cannot be revisited...