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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica?
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To: LoLoLoLita who wrote (14405)4/22/1998 2:01:00 PM
From: LoLoLoLita   of 20981
 
Politics Updated 6:45 AM ET April 22, 1998

Whitewater Witness Goes on Trial in Arkansas

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Key Whitewater witness David Hale goes on trial in Arkansas today after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas refused to block the state from pursuing charges of lying to insurance regulators against him.

Hale goes on trial in Pulaski County Circuit Court in Arkansas on charges of filing a false or misleading statement about an insurance company the state said he owned.

Hale argued a plea agreement and immunity granted to him by Whitewater prosecutors in 1994 should protect him in the state case. He also claimed the case was political payback by his opponents for his cooperation with independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation.

Thomas refused Tuesday to intervene to block the state action. A federal appeals court last week also refused to block Hale's trial.

Hale provided key testimony that resulted in the conviction of James and Susan McDougal, the partners with President Clinton, then governor of Arkansas, and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the failed Whitewater real estate development. Also convicted was then-Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker.

Starr last week asked Attorney General Janet Reno to work out an arrangement with his office to investigate allegations that Hale while cooperating with the investigation had taken cash and other benefits from conservative groups seeking to discredit Clinton.

Starr told Reno he has developed several proposed alternatives so a "complete, thorough and unbiased investigation" can be conducted, but he did not elaborate on the proposals.
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