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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (427668)	7/16/2003 8:44:25 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769670

Clintons Fail to Make You Pay Their Legal Bills Attention, taxpayers: Bill and Hillary Clinton today failed in their attempt to make you pay all their legal bills from their Whitewater scandal. The former first couple (motto: never imprisoned!) had tried to stiff the public for more than $3.5 million in costs stemming from the long-running probe of the failed Arkansas land scheme. An appeals court in Washington ruled today that the Clintons would have been investigated with or without the appointment of an independent counsel, and therefore should pay the overwhelming majority of those legal costs. Taxpayers will get stuck with $85,312.01 for the Clinton lawyers' review of and response to the counsel's final report, the judges ruled. "We harbor no doubt that in the absence of the independent counsel statute the allegations surrounding the Clintons, Madison Guaranty, and Whitewater would have been similarly investigated and prosecuted by the Department of Justice," the three-judge panel wrote.