Independent Counsels Have Spent $17 Million Probing Clinton, Aides; GAO Report Comes Amid Growing Concern About Reining In Investigators

From: The Washington Post | Date: April 2, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

The four independent counsels investigating President Clinton, the first lady and other administration officials spent more than $17 million by the end of last September, according to data compiled by the General Accounting Office.

The group's biggest spender, Kenneth W. Starr, spent an average of nearly $1 million a month, or nearly $13.6 million in the first 14 months of his probe into the Clintons' Whitewater land venture and other matters.

His next closest rival, Donald C. Smaltz, spent about $3.4 million in his first year of investigating former Agriculture secretary Mike Espy ...

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