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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (14097)	4/20/1998 3:04:00 AM
From: DD™	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

GRAND JURY FINALE! DRUDGE REPORT By Matt Drudge Sun Apr 19 '98 19:04:12 PDT 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 reports. 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. Developing...