A gentlemanly lawyer plays political hardball.(Kenneth Starr, independent counsel for the Whitewater investigation)(Brief Article)

From: Newsweek | Date: February 19, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

THE MOCK TRIAL, CONDUCTED IN secret in a North Little Rock hotel in late January, had been a partial victory for Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel. The phony jurors had convicted Jim and Susan McDougal, the Clintons' partners in the disastrous real-estate venture. But they had acquitted Jim Guy Tucker, Clinton's successor as governor of Arkansas, who has been charged with conspiring with the McDougals to defraud Madison Guaranty, the failed savings and loan at he center of Whitewater. For the special prosecutor, half a win wasn't good enough. Sources say that ...

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