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...Chicago Bulls play-off, a ride on a corporate jet and lodging at a lakeside cabin. One of the largest items was a $1,200 scholarship for his girlfriend. At first, the situation seemed as if it might be cleared up quickly. For accepting those gratuities from Tyson Foods and other companies, some of which Espy had reimbursed, the White House demanded his resignation. Independent counsel Donald Smaltz, appointed by a three-judge panel last September, promised a low-profile and speedy inquiry to see whether evidence could be found that Espy did anything illegal in accepting the items...
That seemingly narrow task, however, has expanded into a full-scale investigation that has gone beyond Espy to include Tyson Foods and its relationship with Bill Clinton as Arkansas Governor. Many close ties are already known: Tyson executives helped finance Clinton's campaigns, and James Blair, one of the firm's lawyers, guided Hillary Rodham Clinton's successful commodities trades. Smaltz, 57, a former prosecutor from Los Angeles who was expected to finish the current probe within six months, says he has collected such a large battery of allegations that he may not finish the task before...
Smaltz has served more than 50 grand-jury subpoenas on individuals and groups ranging from the National Broiler Council, a chicken-industry trade group dominated by the Tyson company, to the Arkansas Workers Compensation Commission, the state agency that handles disability claims by Tyson employees. Among the many areas of Smaltz's inquiry are whether Tyson induced Espy to delay tough inspection rules for poultry, and why Espy intervened on Tyson's behalf in a chicken-labeling dispute in Puerto Rico. TIME has learned that Smaltz is also investigating a charge made by a former Tyson pilot that he helped...
First, Webster Hubbell pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Then the special prosecutor's team investigating Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy's relationship with Tyson Foods met with the Whitewater investigators. Now a former chief lending officer for the S&L at the heart of the scandal has been named as a possible co-conspirator. HARRY DON DENTON was angered at the charge and told TIME: "I have given the independent counsel incredible amounts of information. If they're going after some big guns, they're gonna need...
Liberals charge that dynamic scoring is a latter-day version of Reagan-era voodoo economics, a way of slashing taxes without making painful budget cuts. Says Tyson: "We have just gained, after more than a decade, some credibility with financial markets through the hard-won credibility and sanity of our fiscal policy. This is not the moment to change." But Republicans argue that they have an example of how dynamic scoring could have predicted failure: the luxury tax of 1990, which produced disappointing revenues because it crushed the boat industry...