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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (14797)	11/13/1998 3:14:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

This might have something to do with it: The Associated Press reported last week that Starr had won the cooperation of former Lippo Group executive John Huang in exchange for a grant of immunity. Huang, according to sources, told Starr that a $100,000 payment Hubbell received in summer 1994 from a Lippo entity was designed to help the presidential friend and he was unaware that Hubbell did any substantial work to earn it, AP reported.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (14797)	11/13/1998 4:01:00 PM
From: Who, me?	Respond to of 67261

Along with Hubbell's new indictments he also sent more info to the House Judiciary Committee regarding Kathleen Willey. Starr Indicts Webster Hubbell By JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dramatically moving on two fronts, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr today secured a new indictment against presidential friend Webster Hubbell and sent evidence to House impeachment investigators involving the Kathleen Willey matter. A federal grand jury in Washington charged Hubbell with 15 felony counts, accusing the former presidential golfing buddy of fraud, perjury and ''corruptly impeding'' federal banking regulators' investigation of many of the original Whitewater allegations. The charges, the third time Starr has accused the former associate attorney general of wrongdoing, carry a maximum of 110 years in prison and $4 million in fines. The accusations include that Hubbell committed perjury before the House Banking Committee during nationally televised Whitewater hearings. House impeachment investigators have been waiting to see what action Starr might take in the matter to see if it would affect their inquiry. The fresh evidence concerning Mrs. Willey that was sent by Starr to the House Judiciary Committee does not amount to a formal referral accusing Clinton of wrongdoing, as the one Starr sent in September did. Instead, it allows the committee to determine whether Mrs. Willey's allegation of sexual impropriety against the president should be included in the inquiry, according to sources familiar with the transmittal who spoke only on condition of anonymity. The sources said the new information included testimony of key witnesses and other evidence from the Willey investigation that had been left out of Starr's earlier referral, which accused Clinton of 11 offenses that Starr contends are impeachable. Mrs. Willey and several of her friends testified before Starr's grand jury. Starr has been investigating whether Clinton lied under oath when he denied making a crude sexual advance toward Mrs. Willey during a 1993 encounter in the Oval Office, and whether others tried to intimidate the former White House volunteer after she went public with her allegations. By sending the Willey evidence to Capitol Hill, Starr may be signaling he plans no further action against possible targets in the investigation. Mrs. Willey accused Clinton of making the unwanted sexual advance when she came to talk to him about her financial troubles. She later became a witness in Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against him and testified before the grand jury investigating Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Mrs. Willey told her story publicly in an interview on CBS' ''60 Minutes'' last March in which she graphically described Clinton's alleged advance. The president has adamantly denied the allegations and the White House has released letters showing she remained friendly with Mrs. Clinton after the alleged incident. After months of focusing on the Monica Lewinsky inquiry in Washington, the new indictment harkens back to many of the original charges Starr spent four years investigating in Arkansas as he unraveled a complex web of transactions between the Rose Law Firm, where Hubbell and Hillary Rodham Clinton worked, and the failed savings and loan run by the Clintons' Whitewater business partners. The indictment alleged that Hubbell, a presidential golfing buddy before his fall from the No. 3 Justice Department job, ''devised and participated in a scheme that corruptly endeavored to impede'' the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Resolution Trust Corp. when the two agencies began investigating the Arkansas matters. It alleged that Hubbell sought to conceal the true nature of the Rose firm's work in the 1980s for his father-in-law, Seth Ward, and the Madison Guranty Savings and Loan owned by Whitewater partners James and Susan McDougal. Banking regulators have alleged that the law firm failed to disclose its past work involving Ward and the S&L when it accepted a contract to help the government manage the S&L after it failed. Hubbell was questioned at great length by coingressional investigators about the transactions during the Whitewater hearings on Capitol Hill. Hubbell resigned as associate attorney general in March 1994 amind an ethical cloud and months later pleaded guilty to charges brought by Starr's office accusing him of defrauding his clients and the Rose firm. He served time in prison and cooperated with Starr's invetsigation. Earlier this year, he was indicted by Starr on tax charges but a judge threw out the case. The prosecutor is seeking to reinstate those charges through an appeals court. newsday.com