Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker Tuesday made his second appearance before the Whitewater grand jury but declined to discuss the substance of his testimony or to say if it involved either President or Mrs. Clinton. "It was a lot of history. It may seem important to some people but not to me," Tucker said after his appearance. Tucker was an investor in a real estate development for which Mrs. Clinton performed legal work during the 1980s. Federal regulators have attacked the project as a sham. Mrs. Clinton has said she has little memory of the work she did. Another principal in the transactions was the father-in-law of Webster Hubbell, who resigned from the Justice Department in 1994 and later pleaded guilty to stealing from the law firm where he and Mrs. Clinton were once partners. Special prosecutor Kenneth Starr has been trying to determine whether legal fees paid Hubbell following his resignation by political allies of President Clinton were intended to buy Hubbell's silence about the first family's past business affairs. Speaking with reporters following his testimony Tuesday, Tucker paused when asked if the grand jury inquired about Hubbell. "I don't want to get into the details," Tucker said, then added: "Nothing that would stir your interest." Tucker, who succeeded Clinton as governor of Arkansas, resigned in 1996 following his conviction for fraud and conspiracy in the first Whitewater case brought to trial. Convicted in the same case were Clinton's former partners in the Whitewater real estate project in Arkansas, James B. McDougal and his former wife, Susan H. McDougal. Susan McDougal is scheduled to testify before the Arkansas grand jury on Thursday, but her attorney, Mark Geragos of Los Angeles, has asked a judge to block her appearance. Susan McDougal recently ended an 18-month jail sentence for refusing to cooperate with the grand jury and has said she is prepared to return to jail rather than testify, claiming the Whitewater investigation is a "political witchhunt." Earlier this year Tucker reached an agreement with Whitewater prosecutors on a separate indictment involving bankruptcy fraud and pledged to cooperate with the investigation in return for avoiding a prison sentence. -- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
