Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
This is from the Drudge report, so....
GRAND JURY FINALE!
Officials of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have told the
Arkansas Whitewater grand jury in recent months that a document
drafted by Hillary Clinton in 1986 was used "to deceive
regulators" about the financing of a land deal, the NEW YORK TIMES
is set to report.
The NEW YORK TIMES works Whitewater hard in Monday editions with a
3,000-word, Page One piece by Jeff Gerth and Stephen Labaton:
ARKANSAS DEADLINE FOR STARR: WAS IT A COVERUP OR POLITICS?
"After 30 months a federal grand has nearly completed its
examination of evidence compiled by Kenneth Starr that President
and Hillary Rodham Clinton and their aides have long sought to
suppress embarrassing details of their old financial dealings."
Filed from Little Rock, the duo report in their exclusive that
former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker's cooperation in the probe has been
"only moderately helpful" to Starr.
The TIMES reveals new details using both witnesses and records.
The Whitewater grand jury expires on May 7.
"Starr faces the problem of deciding whether he can build a case
against the president or first lady that is based largely on the
testimony of criminals he convicted."
Among the firecrackers being lit by Gerth and Labaton:
*In a previously undisclosed court record, a Whitewater prosecutor
told the judge in 1996 that there was an effort by Gov. Clinton to
silence James McDougal during the 1992 campaign.
*Last summer, a briefcase belonging to Vince Foster was found in
the attic of his old house -- it contained documents that raise
questions about Mrs. Clinton's accounts of her legal work for
Madison.
"Mrs. Clinton has said that the retainer agreement was set up
because an earlier bill from McDougal's bank was unpaid. That
assertion came into question with the discovery of the paid bill
in Foster's briefcase."
One '92 campaign memorandum that was recently given to the grand
jury by a witness spelled out five versions of the retainer
arrangement, given over three weeks by Webster Hubbell, the paper
reports.
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