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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: jlallen who wrote (58499)8/11/1999 10:11:00 AM
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Taxpayers fined $625,000 for unethical behavior of 2 cabinet secretaries from the most ethical administration in history.

Bruce fought the law and the law won.

Babbitt and Rubin 'fined' $625,000 for their 'misdeeds'

By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A judge ordered the government yesterday to pay $625,000 for the "disobedience" of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin in withholding documents of a lawsuit involving the mismanagement of Indian trust funds.
In a 47-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth angrily accused Mr. Babbitt and Mr. Rubin and their government attorneys of disobeying his November 1996 order to turn over the records in a suit brought by the Native American Rights Fund, saying they "covered up their disobedience through semantics and strained, unilateral, self-serving interpretations of their own duties."
Judge Lamberth said the $625,000 judgment was the "only fair result" given the manner in which Mr. Babbitt, Mr. Rubin and the lawyers conducted themselves in refusing to turn over the records.
He said their "contumacious misdeeds" wasted the time of Native American Rights Fund attorneys trying to get information they were entitled to, and of the court, which he said was subjected to "needless hearings on document production."

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