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Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell, one of President Clinton's closest friends and the highest-ranking official to have been toppled by the Whitewater investigation, was sentenced to 21 months in prison. He had pleaded guilty last December to mail-fraud and tax-evasion charges for having bilked his former law firm and clients by submitting inflated expenses and fees...
Former Deputy Attorney General Webster Hubbell, a confidant of President Clinton and the highest-ranking casualty of the Whitewater investigation so far, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for bilking clientsat the law firm where he and Hillary Rodham Clintonwere partners.TIME's Suneel Ratannotes that Hubbell had asked for a reduced sentence of 16 months, in part because of past charitable contributions and his cooperation with Whitewater prosecutors. (Many of the donations, by the way, reportedly came from stolen money.) The judge drew his response today from the Gospel of Luke: "For unto whomsoever much is given...
...theater," lamented William Webster, former head of the fbi and a member of the White House security review committee that recommended closing Pennsylvania Avenue as well as a dozen other measures to tighten protection. Angry people seeking notoriety of all degrees find the stage they want at the White House. For years peaceful protesters have sometimes camped across from the White House, but the rising stridency of the disaffected and the real terrorism in the U.S. have changed the environment...
...Webster and a fellow committee member, William Coleman Jr., a former Secretary of Transportation, resisted the idea of closing the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue when the study was begun after the apparently deliberate crash of a light plane at the mansion last September. "The only way terrorists succeed is to get the government to do something that makes the government look unstable," declared Webster. "The more you change things, the more they can be encouraged." During the discussions, when it was pointed out that Chelsea Clinton's bedroom was on the vulnerable Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White...
...another Whitewater development, the Washington Times reports that in the fall of 1993,then-Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbellmade seven phone calls to U.S. Attorney Paula Casey in Little Rock after government regulators sent her criminal referrals about a savings and loan with ties to the Clintons. Some of the calls, says the paper, came after Hubbell had recused himself from the investigation...