Clinton's America / Whitewater Scorecard

...Here is a rundown of the issues and names you are likely to read about as indictments, reports and hearings proliferate in coming months: The Madison Guaranty Case TAS was the first to report on Madison Guaranty victim Freddy Whitener, the rural contractor from James McDougal's boyhood town of Bradford, Arkansas...

...Tucker's schedule lent itself to working out a deal for damage control...

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...Clinton's career at Rose Law Firm still hasn't been told...

...for funds that may have wound up in Bill Clinton's pocket...

...When the White House received a "heads up" in September 1993 on the RTC's criminal referrals about Madison Guaranty, White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum argued that his staff needed the warning to avoid embarrassing contacts with people who might be charged...

...In a court filing, by James Ring Adams Starr's office asked a federal judge to delay sentencing Hale because of his important role in the investigation...

...when we first met him, Whitener felt he was under surveillance and reported at least one anonymous threatening phone call...

...The Justice Department most recently issued a report exonerating the Bush administration, and itself, in the BNL arms financing...

...Along with his study of Vince Foster's suicide, he issued a press release saying there had been no criminal acts in the contacts between Treasury Department officials 43 The American Spectator March 1995 and the White House...

...Neither Pharaon nor Occidental would say whether Pharaon had liquidated his Occidental holding during this period, although the company now says it has no record of Pharaon as a shareholder...

...Hale was the municipal court judge who ran a "small business investment corporation," a private lending company financed by the Small Business Administration...

...A New York tabloid several months ago ran a grossly exaggerated report that Hale had gone into hiding for fear of his life...

...Some market experts believe that her broker, Refco, was feeding her profits while swallowing the losses...

...See "Webb and April and Jean and Jack," TAS, October 1994...

...In two letters, the Republicans urged Independent Counsel Stan: to consider criminal charges, not only against Altman, but against Jean Hanson, former General Counsel to the Treasury...

...In spite of Wefforts by the administration and some of the brow-beaten press to sweep unanswered questions under the rug, the guilty plea from presidential confidant Webb Hubbell was too large an event to ignore, and it promises further revelations...

...Olayan hired former Treasury Secretary William Simon to manage his U.S...

...He said that McDougal had brought him to a meeting with thenGovernor Clinton in early 1986...

...At the time, Fiske himself was asking congressional committees not to raise the issue of Webb Hubbell's possible contacts with Paula Casey or the RTC's handling of the Madison Guaranty case on the grounds that those matters were under active investigation...

...prosecutor in Little Rock after Clinton's Justice Department summarily fired all the sitting U.S...

...Attorney Paula Casey declines...

...A mutual friend saw him alive and well in public recently, although he did have an escort from the Federal Bureau of Investigation...

...He never made it to New York...

...The civil suits, incidentally, were also under the supervision of April Breslaw...

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...His checkbooks showed how McDougal churned money through Madison Guaranty accounts in a massive check-kiting scheme...

...After Congress released documents on the Kansas City meeting, acting RTC head Jack Ryan handed a temporary suspension, not to Ms...

...Their committee report said Altman "intentionally lied to Congress," a felony, as opposed to the misdemeanor of "misleading Congress" to which Elliott Abrams pled guilty...

...He cited a pending investigation of their conduct...

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...Whitener entrusted Clinton friend McDougal with the bookkeeping for their real-estate partnership and found he had been saddled with $1.6 million in debt, much of it apparently fraudulent...

...The First Family Why is the press so ready to forget Hillary Rodham Clinton's $100,000 killing in the cattle-futures market under the tutelage of her friend James Blair, later general counsel for Tyson Foods of Springdale, Arkansas, (see "The Ties That Blind," TAS, August 1994...

...Did President Clinton inform Jim Guy Tucker that he was mentioned in the RTC's criminal referrals during the October 2 meeting...

...Hale went public because he was facing federal indictment for his SBIC financing...

...He lent heavily to Seth Ward, father-in-law of Clinton confidant Webb Hubbell, and to current Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker, whose imminent indictment has been rumored for months...

...and to review the testimony of White House officials George Stephanopoulos and Harold Ickes...

...You wouldn't necessarily learn it from the press, either pro or con, but the Whitewater complex does reveal important problems in public policy...

...investments, and another Olayan associate sits on the Oxy Pete board along with Albert Gore, Sr., father of the vice president) There's no reason to doubt Stern's word, but apparently his former employers aren't telling him the full story...

...In 1985, Pharaon himself told MidEast Report, a New York-based newsletter, that he held a "small block" in the company...

...As Hale gains in credibility with the Independent Counsel, the reputation of U.S...

...Stem, who denied ever having heard about Pharaon at Occidental, called me later to say that company officials 44 The American Spectator March 1995 had told him that the large Arab stockholder was not Pharaon but Suliman Saleh Olayan, a far different sort of Saudi businessman...

...A small partner in two of Occidental's offshore oil projects in Pakistan was the BCCI affiliate Attock Oil Co., Ltd., whose chairman was Ghaith Pharaon...

...This money trail led to the infamous March 1985 fund-raiser in the Little Rock lobby of Madison Guaranty, which paid off a personal campaign loan to Governor Clinton...

...Senate Banking Committee Republicans believe Altman was worse...

...Last July, a key borrower from the bank, Abbas Gokal, took a plane from Karachi to New York to make a deal with the Manhattan District Attorney's office...

...In October, I wrote, "The historic significance of Whitewater now lies in the extent to which the mid-term elections will become a referendum on the abuse of one-party rule...

...The Washington official who insisted on hiring Hubbell and who approved his bills turned out to be April Breslaw, the same lady who flew to the Kansas City RTC office on February 2, 1994, to suggest to RTC field investigators that Clinton's Whitewater partnership had nothing to do with the failure of Madison Guaranty...

...Hubbell also has the potential for turning the RTC inside out...

...This was the same conclusion reached by Resolution Trust Corporation field investigators, although a statement to that effect, released in congressional hearings, was also overlooked by the press...

...In December 1974, Occidental confirmed reports that Pharaon had bought one million shares of its stock...

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...Hale has a lot to tell investigators about other members of the Little Rock political elite...

...Someone in Washington, furthermore, is still playing the BCCI game...

...At last report, the Germans were delivering Gokal to Great Britain's Serious Fraud Office, which does not put American political corruption high on its list of priorities...

...Now that Webb Hubbell has entered a plea bargain for his bill-padding and promised full cooperation, he could do great damage to President Clinton...

...on the afternoon of Tucker's visit, Hubbell met with White House counsel Nussbaum and presidential senior adviser Bruce Lindsey, the point man on Whitewater...

...One official at Justice has asked to be taken off our list...

...Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr looks like he's getting up to speed, and his counterpart for the Agriculture Department is finding that their paths cross in a big way...

...In any case, Stem tells me that his office is only a coordinator and has no line authority over the Criminal Fraud Division...

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...In a previous article on the BCCI ("Closing the BCCI Curtain," TAS, September 1994), I noted that a recusal by Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick left the BCCI case under the supervision of Gerald Stern, the special counsel for financial institution fraud...

...Unquestionably an able executive, Bowles had the ear of President Clinton and is now deputy chief of staff for operations...

...The Kansas City meeting took place the same day that Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, who was also the acting RTC head, briefed White House staff about the status of civil suits over the Madison failure...

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...These apologetics have the same smell as the ethics office report's clearing everyone in Whitewater...

...Washington regulators had hired Webb Hubbell and his Rose Law Firm for a Madison Guaranty lawsuit over strong objections from field officers that Hubbell had a massive conflict of interest in the case...

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...The Administration Cover-Up Much of the press fell into a trap when independent counsel Fiske came out with his first set of reports on the eve of congressional hearings last year...

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...But it appears that Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr takes Hale's charges seriously...

...He makes the crucial charge that puts Bill Clinton squarely in the middle of the attempt to save McDougal's Madison Guaranty from federal regulators...

...The case originated with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which was handling savings-and-loan suits until the RTC was up and running...

...The answer to this point now seems pretty clear...

...he was in a position to speak volumes about the BCCI's corruption of American politicians...

...Why she might have put the Hale case on the fast track has been discussed in these pages...

...The federal government paid bills that Hubbell later confessed were fraudulent...

...He felt he was being set up as the fall guy for the Madison mess and that his case was being rushed to destroy his credibility as a witness against Clinton...

...Breslaw, but to the three field officers pursuing the Madison Guaranty case...

...and Joshua Steiner, former Secretary Bentsen's chief of staff...

...financial press reported the million-share position right down to 1991, although Pharaon may have sold it off much earlier, and even before Stem joined the company in 1981...

...A few questions could open a real can of worms, since this is the same division that tried to close down the investigations of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) and the Atlanta branch of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL), which lent $4 billion to Saddam Hussein, a lot of it with federal loan guarantees...

...The first set of Madison Guaranty criminal referrals has somehow disappeared from the Justice Department's Criminal Fraud Division...

...they talked about a loan to McDougal structured to keep out Clinton's name...

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...After his 20-minute tete-a-tete with Clinton, Tucker went on to see Webb Hubbell at Justice and White House chief of staff Thomas "Mack" McLarty...

...According to the Senate Banking report, Altman's briefing was more significant than previously realized...

...Stern had previously been director and counsel for Occidental Petroleum, in which a prime BCCI fugitive, Ghaith Pharaon, once held a million shares...

...When an editorial by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...

...Presidents face the perennial question, "What did he know and when did he know it...

...Perhaps Webb Hubbell can shed light on some of the work they did together...

...Hale said that Clinton had offered his Whitewater partnership as security but that he (Hale) hadn't wanted it...

...So why the payoff...

...Another federal witness, David Hale, gave us an extended series of exclusive interviews over a year ago...

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...Instead, Clinton plunged almost immediately into an October 6 private meeting with a prime target of the investigation, Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker...

...but the Senate Banking Committee raises a more pointed query about Bill Clinton's contact with a potential target of the Madison case...

...See "Beyond Whitewater," TAS, February 1994...

...Hale was puzzled in the fall of 1993 by her sudden loss of interest in accepting his cooperation...

...Casey was Clinton's law student at the University of Arkansas and took over as the U.S...

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...The new majority in Congress is sure to demand real hearings, once it passes the Contract and gets down to serious business...

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...mentioned Breslaw's connection with Hubbell in the aftermath of Hubbell's plea bargain, some in the media took it as a great revelation, though it had been reported in detail in these pages four months earlier...

...As late as 1991, Oxy Pete did have another minor BCCI -connection...

...Refco had close ties to commodity traders for the BCCI...

...The Small Business Administration says it began the investigation to clean up the most egregious abuses in the agency, as part of the new broom brought by administrator Erskine Bowles...

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...See "Whitewater Obstructionists," TAS, April/May 1994...

...The new majority on the Senate Banking Committee is intensely interested in whether they talked about the supposedly confidential criminal referrals...

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...Someone tipped off the German police and they took him off the plane during a Frankfort stopover...

...She was feeding off scraps from one of the most extraordinary market manipulations of recent years, involving leaders from the wild and woolly Chicago Mercantile Exchange...

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...He told the White House that civil suits, which could have involved the Clintons and Hillary's former employer, the Rose Law Firm, weren't ready to be filed before the expiration of the statute of limitations at the end of the month...

...This meeting came just one day after Hubbell's regular Tuesday meeting with Nussbaum...

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...If so, did the transmittal of such information hinder the government's ability to prosecute a case...

...The Independent Counsel's office under both Robert Fiske and Kenneth Starr has been intensely interested in her contacts with Webb Hubbell, then the de facto power at the Justice Department...

...See TAS, April/May 1994) A further suspect detail emerged in the recent Senate Banking Committee report on last year's Whitewater hearings...

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...If he did, isn't that felony obstruction of justice...

...According to a spokesman for the regulators, Breslaw has not been suspended for anything to date, even though the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is conducting an inquiry into the Rose Law Firm billing that has gone on a year longer than expected...

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...How did Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman's February testimony to the Senate Banking Committee differ from the misleading statements that brought Reagan-era witnesses to grief in the Irancontra affair...

...In fact, the counsel's release pointedly did not mention the Justice Department or the Resolution Trust Corporation (which the national press forgot was not a part of Treasury...

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...Although Congress very soon afterwards extended the statute of limitations, at the time this information could have helped the Clintons immensely...

...This fund-raiser is now reported to be a major interest of the independent counsel's office...

...The conduct of the Democratic Congress last year prompted a broader concern: the House leadership had abandoned the essential constitutional principle of checks and balances...

...Almost every press account reported (with the encouragement of the White House) that Fiske had exonerated all administration officials...