Hubbell had Date: 05/03/97 Category: NEW Page: 1A KATHY KIELY, ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE WASHINGTON -- President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton played host to Webb Hubbell at the White House until six weeks before he pleaded guilty to defrauding clients and partners at his former law firm, according to Secret Service records released here Friday. The records show that Hubbell was authorized to enter the White House at least 14 times during the nine months between March 14, 1994, when he announced his resignation from the No. 3 post at the Justice Department, and Dec. 6, 1994, when he pleaded guilty to bilking clients and partners at Little Rock's Rose Law Firm, where he had been a partner with Hillary Clinton. At least four of those visits were at the invitation of the Clintons themselves. Hubbell's last call on the first couple came on Oct. 21, 1994, when he was among guests invited to a birthday party for the first lady. News reports surfaced in November 1994 that Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr would seek indictments against Hubbell. Since his resignation, White House and Clinton administration officials had helped Hubbell get more than $400,000 in payments from various businesses. The list of Hubbell's White House visits are likely to fuel suspicions of critics of the Clinton administration that its officials were helping Hubbell to discourage him from cooperating with Starr in his investigation of the Clintons' financial dealings. Reporters have been clamoring for more information on Hubbell's White House contacts for weeks, ever since high-level Clinton aides Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty and Erskine Bowles acknowledged trying to line up work for Hubbell after his departure from the Justice Department. Release of the information they were seeking came late on an afternoon in which many members of the White House press corps were otherwise occupied: At almost the same moment that aides were slipping copies of the one-page list of Hubbell's visits into bins in the White House press room, the president was on Capitol Hill making a headline-grabbing announcement of a budget agreement with congressional Republican leaders. Lanny Davis, the White House lawyer who is serving as the president's spokesman on Whitewater matters, downplayed the significance of Hubbell's visits to the White House, noting that most were for large group events, involving anywhere from 65 to 3,000 people. On March 18, 1994, just four days after he had announced his resignation as associate attorney general, Hubbell was among a group of people the president invited for dinner and a movie at the White House. In June, Clinton included his old friend in the festivities when the NCAA champion University of Arkansas Razorback basketball team visited the White House. That same month, Hubbell also was invited to a state arrival ceremony for Japanese, but the records are hazy about whether he attended. Hubbell, 49, had only two more intimate encounters with the Clintons at the White House, Davis said. One occurred on May 7, when Hubbell was asked to join a small group of Arkansas friends at a White House party in honor of Lisa Foster, who was making her first visit back to Washington after the death of her husband, White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster. Among others invited to the gathering were former Arkansas Rep. Beryl Anthony, D-Ark.; his wife, Sheila, who is Foster's sister; and White House aide Marsha Scott. Foster had been a law partner at Rose with Hubbell and Hillary Clinton. On July 20, on the first anniversary of the day Foster was found dead in what law enforcement officials ruled a suicide, Hubbell had a private visit with the first lady. Besides his calls on the Clintons, Hubbell also saw other former associates at the White House. The Secret Service records indicate that Hubbell had at least seven appointments with various White House aides though it is not clear whether he kept them all. Three of those appointments were with Scott, a fellow Arkansan who later would visit him several times when he was serving an 18-month federal prison sentence for mail fraud and tax evasion. There has been speculation that Scott served as an emissary between the Clintons and their jailed friend, but the White House denies this, characterizing her visits as "purely on a personal level." Hubbell's last scheduled appointment at the White House was on November 16, 1994, 20 days before he entered his guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Little Rock. The Secret Service records indicate his visit was authorized by another Rose Law Firm colleague, then-White House associate counsel William Kennedy III. The records do not show whether Hubbell kept the appointment. Though Hubbell was under a legal cloud at the time he resigned from the Justice Department and during the months that he continued to visit the White House, both Clintons have said they believed their old friend's assurances that he had been wrongly accused. Davis said Friday that Hillary Clinton recalls Hubbell telling her during their t te-^-t te on the anniversary of Foster's death that he was innocent of the charges being leveled against him by Rose partners. Hubbell, who has given several interviews since being released from jail earlier this year, has said he lied to the Clintons. During a Fourth of July weekend visit to Camp David in 1994, he said, the president asked him point-blank whether he had done anything wrong. "I lied," Hubbell said. Meanwhile, Starr is investigating the possibility that the White House was orchestrating an effort to win Hubbell's silence. Documents and public statements indicate Hubbell made more than $400,000 in the nine months between leaving the Justice Department and going to jail. After Starr obtained subpoenas, the federal Whitewater grand jury in Little Rock heard testimony in April from presidential counselor McLarty, Bowles, now White House chief of staff, and several major Democratic contributors who acknowledged hiring Hubbell after he left the Justice Department. ### P.S. 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