PREZ SEZ "I DON"T GIVE ADVISE TO JAIL-BIRDS"
McDougal, still silent, indicted again
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Susan McDougal was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for her refusal to testify about an illegal $300,000 loan she received and about a check from a failed Arkansas thrift that contained the words "Payoff Clinton."
The 12-page indictment named McDougal on two counts of criminal contempt and one count of obstruction of justice.
The former business partner of President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton was accused of failing to answer questions before the grand jury on two occasions on whether Mr. Clinton knew about the loan, if he lied about it in the first Whitewater trial and what the "payoff" check represented.
The indictment, handed up in U.S. District Court in Little Rock, Ark., came after the White House refused requests by independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr to intercede in the case and encourage McDougal to testify before the grand jury.
ÿÿÿÿÿCharles W. Bakaly III, spokesman for Mr. Starr, said that the independent counsel's office repeatedly asked Mr. Clinton to urge his former business partner to testify, but that the requests were rejected.
ÿÿÿÿÿ"We asked that the president urge Ms. McDougal to testify truthfully to the grand jury, and that was declined," he said. "We made those communications to the White House counsel's office repeatedly, and those requests were rejected.
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