-Caveat Lector-
> Clinton Accepts 5-Year Law Suspension
> By Pete Yost
> Associated Press Writer
> Friday, Jan. 19, 2001; 1:26 p.m. EST
> WASHINGTON -- President Clinton has reached a deal with prosecutors
> to
> avoid indictment, requiring him to make a written acknowledgment he
> may
> have misled investigators in the Monica Lewinsky case and agree to a
> suspension of his law license, government sources said.
> On his final day in office, Clinton was preparing the statement to be
> made
> Friday and agreed to accept a five-year suspension of his Arkansas
> law
> license, the officials said.
> The deal will spare the nation the prospect of seeing one of its
> former
> chief executives put on criminal trial. Clinton will have immunity
> from
> further prosecution under the deal with Independent Counsel Robert
> Ray, the
> sources said.
> In his statement, Clinton will acknowledge he may have made
> misleading
> statements in his sworn testimony in the Lewinsky matter, the sources
> said,
> speaking only on condition of anonymity.
> White House press secretary Jake Siewert would not confirm the deal.
> "The president has long said that he wanted to put this thing behind
> him,"
> Siewert said. "We will have a statement at 2 p.m."
> The deal effectively brings to an end the six-year Whitewater
> investigation
> that began with questions about the Clintons' Arkansas land deal but
> expanded to his conduct in the Oval Office.
> Ray, who took over the investigation more than a year ago, had been
> using a
> grand jury to decide whether Clinton should be indicted for perjury
> and
> obstruction of justice after he leaves office on Saturday. A decision
> was
> expected soon.
> Ray reached the deal with Clinton's attorney David Kendall, the
> sources
> said. "The deal is going to be announced within hours," said one of
> the
> sources.
> The deal addresses the remaining legal issues from the president's
> affair
> with Lewinsky, a former White House intern, which prompted his
> impeachment
> by the House in December 1998 and acquittal in a Senate trial the
> following
> February.
> The Arkansas Supreme Court had begun proceedings to revoke Clinton's
> law
> license, but the president has now agreed to have the license
> suspended for
> five years.
> In addition to impeachment, a federal judge fined Clinton for
> misleading
> testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit that helped
> spur the
> Lewinsky revelations.
> In recent months, Clinton had defiantly and repeatedly suggested that
> he
> would fight any indictment by Ray.
> "I don't believe that I should be charged," Clinton said in an
> interview
> with "60 Minutes II" in December. "If that's what they want, I'll be
> happy
> to stand and fight."
> Last April, Clinton told a conference of newspaper editors that he
> would
> not ask his successor for a pardon. "I don't think it would be
> necessary. I
> won't be surprised by anything that happens, but I'm not interested
> in
> being pardoned."
> In recent days, however, even Republicans who had long criticized
> Clinton
> had urged there be no such trial.
> The Senate Judiciary Committee's top Republican, Orrin Hatch of Utah,
> suggested that President-elect Bush pardon Clinton to "end a problem
> in
> America that needs to be ended."
> Bush responded by saying, "I think it's time to get all of this
> business
> behind us" and let Clinton "move on and enjoy life and become an
> active
> participant in the American system." Regarding the possibility of a
> pardon,
> Bush has said, "The suggestion that I would pardon somebody who has
> never
> been indicted, that doesn't make any sense to me."
> Behind the scenes, Kendall and Ray's office worked on a deal to avoid
> a
> grand jury indictment.
> Ray had said the decision on a Clinton indictment was the last
> remaining
> business he had in the independent counsel probe that has spent more
> than
> $50 million since 1994.
> President and Hillary Rodham Clinton were never formally accused of
> any
> wrongdoing in the Whitewater investigation, though their business
> deals
> were investigated and several of their associates convicted.
> Their former Whitewater business partners, James and Susan McDougal,
> were
> convicted of fraud in a 1996 trial in which Clinton testified by
> videotape.
> Longtime Clinton friend Webster Hubbell, Mrs. Clinton's former law
> partner,
> also pleaded guilty to wrongdoing.
> Ray's predecessor, Kenneth Starr, was asked by Attorney General Janet
> Reno
> to expand the investigation beyond Arkansas to the White House's
> improper
> gathering of FBI files, the firing of White House travel employees
> and
> ultimately the Lewinsky matter.
> Clinton was forced to testify before a federal grand jury about his
> relationship with the intern and to make a dramatic national apology
> in
> August 1998 after months of denying an affair.
> Weeks later, Starr sent a report to Congress saying there was
> evidence of
> impeachable offenses by Clinton.
> The House, mostly along party lines, voted to impeach the president
> that
> December, but the Senate acquitted him a few months.
> � Copyright 2001 The Associated Press
>
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