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...think our people went out of their way and followed good protocol on this," says Des Moines police commander Kevin Tucker. "You know, when they were talking to the mom and she was saying it was O.K., then basically there were no signs of criminal activity." In hindsight, of course, there was every sign: a Washington State statute clearly defines sex with a minor between the ages of 12 and 16 as rape...
Starr's last-gasp witness was former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker. Already convicted for his role in one Whitewater scheme, Tucker agreed in February to cooperate with Starr's office and plead guilty to another minor charge. Some Clinton watchers thought Tucker's cooperation could devastate the President, but sources tell TIME that Tucker is not giving Starr enough to make a case against Clinton...
...prosecutor was hoping Tucker could corroborate a central allegation against Clinton: that in 1986 Clinton pressured former judge David Hale to make an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal. That allegation came from Hale, a convicted felon whose credibility took another beating last month when published reports accused him of receiving payments from right-wing Clinton haters. Clinton's other Whitewater partner, Jim McDougal, at first denied the allegation, then confirmed it--but his credibility was no better than Hale's, and he died last month in prison. Starr can't build a case around the Hale loan unless...
...Tucker's first day of secret testimony, March 18, was devoted to a six-hour tour of the Clintons' real estate history. Starr apparently hoped he would provide more details about Hillary's role in a house-of-cards residential development called Castle Grande, which Jim McDougal financed through his savings-and-loan, Madison Guaranty. Federal regulators called Castle Grande a sham. Af-ter earning $2 million in commissions and fees for McDougal's associates, it collapsed in 1989 (cost to taxpayers: $4 million), helping trigger the $50 million failure of Madison. In sworn statements to federal regulators, Hillary said...
Malodorous as all this may be, it is not likely to add up to a case. Even if Tucker had damaging stories to tell about Hillary's role in the 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...