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...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 as his bookkeeper from 1989 to 1992. And when she gets through that, there's a second contempt citation from Starr in September for her continued refusal to cooperate with his investigation. McDougal served 18 months for her earlier refusal to cooperate with Starr, and was into the fourth month of a two-year sentence on Whitewater-related felony fraud charges. But while she may have to spend most of her days...
WASHINGTON: Well, it's official: Dead men tell no tales, not even to Ken Starr. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that notes of a conversation Vince Foster had with his lawyer nine days before his suicide will remain sealed under attorney-client privilege. Although the decision leaves Starr without some potentially juicy evidence, lawyers everywhere were deeply relieved...
...Starr's request just violated too many notions of what the legal profession is," says TIME deputy Washington bureau chief Jef McAllister. "So many people, before they die, go to a lawyer to settle their affairs and tell their secrets. The Justices weren't willing to let that relationship be ruptured...
...Starr, don't shed a tear; TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak says that the dogged prosecutor was just being thorough: "The part of Starr's case that Foster was involved in is essentially closed already. This was just one last road he needed to travel down." One might imagine that Starr, as a lawyer, might be a little relieved himself -- just as long as Bruce Lindsey keeps breathing...
...Even if he manages to pin down a Lewinsky fascination with telephonic trysts, Starr may be facing a setback in his bid to prove that the President helped the former intern find a job in exchange for her silence in the Paula Jones case. U.S. News and World Report yesterday released portions of Linda Tripp's tapes, which, they claim, prove that Clinton was helping Lewinsky find a job two months before she was subpoenaed by Jones. At least the independent counsel will be able to console himself with some interesting reading...