Word: starr
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WASHINGTON: Both sides in the war between Ken Starr and the Clinton administration got a heap of ammunition Wednesday. First, a General Accounting Office audit of the prosecutor's Whitewater probe shows Starr spending $30 million in taxpayer dollars over four years. That makes Starr's the most spendthrift of the six independent counsel probes now under way, and means his probe is nearing the $40 million cost of the most expensive independent counsel probe ever conducted, Lawrence Walsh's Iran-Contra investigation...
...anything about it," says a G.O.P. aide. "These people are not going to vote Democrat, but these people may not vote. And that's a problem for a lot of members who are facing stiff contests." The G.O.P. strategy now is to take what Starr gives them and then hold a series of so-called informational hearings...
...Kenneth Starr is trying to untangle the mystery. He subpoenaed records from Landow and had a voluntary interview scheduled with him--until Landow canceled it. And the House Government Reform and Oversight panel is examining contacts between Landow and Hubbell while the latter was receiving "consulting fees" paid by friends of the Clinton White House. Landow denies trying to pressure Willey to absolve Clinton, though he admits speaking with her many times in recent months. In fact, in October he flew her to his Eastern Shore estate. Was it for pleasure or persuasion...
...good fortune--or careful targeting--that the women who have come forward to accuse him over the years have records just as mottled as his. But the disturbing story of twins both unborn and unconceived is the most damaging yet to a witness described as pivotal in Kenneth Starr's investigation of Clinton. For, as with Docking, Willey again asked Steele to engage in an elaborate deception, this time at the President's expense...
...rolls early in the day and later for muffins, kneading bread and waiting on the clientele. "I thought she might be a snob at first when she was a customer," recalls Jason Lord, one of her many college-age co-workers, "but she was a very good person." Kenneth Starr certainly considers her an asset, granting her immunity before her grand-jury testimony. That will insulate her from perjury charges for any lies she may have told in her deposition to Paula Jones' lawyers and may help protect her from prosecution in connection with any financial or tax improprieties...