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WASHINGTON: Ken Starr is saying good-bye to his deanship-by-the-sea. But despite talk of "moral commitments" in today's surprise announcement, the move isn't simply because Starr is worried about keeping Pepperdine's law school waiting while he hunts assorted Arkansas game. It's what TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon calls the "look bad" rule...
...Starr got caught in an untenable position," says Shannon. "Starr's deanship is funded by Richard Mellon Scaife. If David Hale, Starr's key Whitewater witness, is also helped financially by Scaife, both Hale and Starr have a credibility problem...
...project, the First Lady cannot be prosecuted today for what she did in the mid-1980s because the federal statute of limitations has run out. That leaves a perjury or obstruction case against her for losing records and telling falsehoods to the FDIC or grand jury, but Starr appears to have backed away from that idea. And though the prosecutors questioning Tucker focused on Hillary's Castle Grande work, according to a source familiar with the session, "they are more interested in writing a book than bringing an indictment...
That book--the report Starr will eventually present to Congress--will contain a chapter on the further adventures of Hubbell, the former Associate Attorney General who has already spent 18 months in prison. Starr has tried to establish that when Clinton loyalists lined up some $700,000 in contracts for Hubbell in 1994, just after he resigned from the Justice Department and before he was indicted, the payments amounted to hush money. That investigation has also led nowhere, but Starr appears ready to go after Hubbell again, this time on tax charges relating to some...
...coming days to depose presidential pal WEBSTER HUBBELL on a sensitive subject. Burton's gumshoes have traced an additional $200,000 that went to Hubbell in 1994, bringing to $700,000 the total of gifts and fees raised by Clinton friends from sympathetic companies. Independent counsel Kenneth Starr is trying to determine if any of it was intended to buy Hubbell's silence about Clinton dealings at a time when Hubbell was being investigated. In the deposition Burton will focus on payments to Hubbell by figures in the 1996 campaign-finance scandal, such as the Riadys of Indonesia, whose...