Kavanaugh Is Referred To SCOTUS For Ethics Investigation - Is Ken Starr In Those Filings?

Ken Starr, Baylor University.

It is such a shame we do not know the scope of the judicial ethics complaints.

I bet there is more than just quarter bounce in those filings.

But, hey, what do I know.

I know the following is what was going on when he was at Baylor University, because it is all public information, and I learned circumvention research from Starletta Banks.

Oh, and it is the same crap that is going on with with the charge of Michigan State University ex-President Lou Anna Simon.

Child welfare fraud.

Same exact crap, except I have not found the children's trust funds out of Baylor, yet, but all I have to do if follow the Medicaid fraud in child welfare because they are using kids as lab rats

You are more than welcome to contribute or just follow my mission right here, because we are all going to be coming to Detroit.

Baylor paid ex-coach Art Briles $15.1 million after dismissal amid school's sexual assault scandal; Ken Starr got $4.5 million

Actually, it was more than $4.5 because he got paid for being the Chancellor, too, you know.

Timing is everything

Baylor University and Ken Starr Issue Joint Statement Regarding Their Employment Relationship

WACO, Texas (Aug. 19, 2016) – Effective today, Judge Ken Starr will be leaving his faculty status and tenure at Baylor University’s Law School. The mutually agreed separation comes with the greatest respect and love Judge Starr has for Baylor and with Baylor’s recognition and appreciation for Judge Starr’s many contributions to Baylor. Baylor wishes Judge Ken Starr well in his future endeavors. Judge Starr expresses his thanks to the Baylor family for the opportunity to serve as president and chancellor and is grateful for his time with the exceptional students of Baylor University who will lead and serve around the world.

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I wonder what Ken Starr is doing right about now....

You can check in right here to get all the up to date intel and we proceed.

Again, what do I know?

Chief Justice Roberts Requests Tenth Circuit To Investigate Kavanaugh Ethics Questions

Brett Kavanaugh & Ken Starr
Whitewater days
(pre-Detroit Land Bank Authority days)

These complaints were initially received by the U.S. Court of Appeals prior to Kavanaugh’s seating on the Supreme Court. Chief Judge Merrick Garland — whose nomination to the Supreme Court was blocked by Senate Republicans—recused himself from the matter. The complaints were then passed to Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, whom President George H.W. Bush nominated to the bench.

Judge Henderson dismissed some of the complaints made against Judge Kavanaugh as frivolous. But she concluded that more than a dozen complaints were substantive enough to warrant investigation by an impartial panel and that they should not be handled by Judge Kavanaugh’s fellow judges in the D.C. Circuit. She referred them to Chief Justice Roberts, who has now referred them to the 10th Circuit.

The Legal Basis Of The Ethics Complaints

The complaints were not made without legal basis. More than 2,400 law professors have determined that Kavanaugh has “displayed a lack of judicial temperament that would be disqualifying for any court.”

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens also stated that Judge Kavanaugh has demonstrated bias and is “not fit for the Supreme Court.” Former Justice Stevens, in remarks to retirees in Boca Raton, Fla, declared that Kavanaugh’s statements on September 27 revealed prejudices that would make it impossible for him to do the court’s work. “They suggest that he has demonstrated a potential bias involving enough potential litigants before the court that he would not be able to perform his full responsibilities.”

Wall Street Journal, about “a few things [he] should not have said” in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, though without giving specifics.

Now, Chief Justice Roberts has requested Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich, the chief circuit judge of the Denver-based Tenth Circuit, to review the complaints against Kavanaugh and "any pending or new complaints related to the same subject matter." Judge Tymkovich has the option of handling the complaints himself, dismissing them or appointing a special committee to examine them.

Unlike the allegations of Justice Kavanaugh’s sexual misconduct and excessive drinking as a teenager, there is no question here about the facts as to what happened, since they occurred on national television. At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Judge Kavanaugh’s behavior was startlingly non-judicial in nature. From the outset in his prepared statement, he was angry and confrontational in manner. He was aggrieved and complaining about the situation in which he found himself. He was impolite and challenged the integrity of the Senate questioners and portrayed the hearing in the starkest partisan terms.

Kavanaugh made no apparent effort to bring a lifetime of professional expertise and perspective to bear on the difficult issues under consideration. Instead, he was dismissive of the inquiry and was careless on matters of fact that had been asserted by other potential witnesses on the subject under discussion. He made obfuscating responses to questions about the meaning of words. He made no apparent effort to hold emotions in check and shouted at U.S. Senators and accused them of wrongdoing. He repeatedly sought to shift the attention and blame to others for what was taking place. He resisted further legal inquiry into the issues under discussion. He approached the inquiry with an attitude of entitlement and self-pity. His conduct was remarkably unprofessional.

Although Kavanaugh’s behavior was the very opposite of what one hopes for and expects in a judge, it succeeded in its immediate intent of winning the applause of President Trump and his Republican supporters. Yet his performance, which has been accurately satirized on Saturday Night Live, appalled the rest of the country and raised strictly legal questions about his temperament to sit as a judge on any federal court, let alone the Supreme Court.

Next Steps

The situation is unique in that never before has a Supreme Court appointee joined the court at a time when a fellow judge has concluded that misconduct claims against that appointee warrant review and when a former Supreme Court Justice has concluded that the appointee’s behavior was disqualifying.

Technically, Supreme Court justices are not subject to the misconduct rules governing these claims. But if complaints against a sitting Justice are not dealt with in an impartial apolitical manner, then there will be an asterisk against Judge Tymkovich and Justice Kavanaugh for the remainder of their terms, and indeed the U.S. Supreme Court itself.

There is therefore a risk that Mitch McConnell's seeming accomplishment of a “rock-solid Republican majority on the Supreme Court for a generation” may yet turn out to be something of a Pyrrhic victory.

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What Do The Arkansas Finance Development Authority & Detroit Land Bank Authority Have In Common?

Arkansas Finance Development Authority training
new "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending)
for the Detroit Land Bank Authority

Q: What Do The Arkansas Finance Development Authority & Detroit Land Bank Authority Have In Common?

A: Bill Clinton

But wait, I have an even better question:

What Do Whitewater, Ken Starr, Monica Lewinsky & Detroit Have In Common?

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Since CNN has no clue of what is going on, allow me to share a reason why DOJ is appealing the opinion: They are still stealin'.

Justice Department appeals order to disclose Clinton grand jury records

The Trump administration is again fighting for greater secrecy in a Clinton-focused investigation: this time, the independent counsel probe that explored President Bill Clinton’s relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

A raft of court records from grand jury-related proceedings related to the investigation have remained secret for two decades, but last month a federal judge — acting on a request from CNN ruled that the vast majority of the files should be made public.

But early Wednesday, the Justice Department appealed that decision to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The move is likely to delay the release of the request information for months or longer.

A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment, but court filings indicate that government lawyers made the broad assertion that the court lacks authority to release grand jury records for reasons of “extreme public interest” or any other reason not specifically detailed in federal court rules.

Chief U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell disagreed, ruling that the court had “inherent” power to disclose grand jury information for other reasons.

Justice Department attorneys did not object to unsealing some information already made public in a report Independent Counsel Ken Starr sent to Congress in 1998, but Howell said some matters had been so thoroughly aired in the report that there was little point in keeping the related records under wraps.

The D.C. Circuit is already considering an appeal in another case raising the same issue, so Howell agreed Wednesday to freeze her order until that case is resolved.

Most of the files pertain to claims of legal privilege that were brought to fight subpoenas issued at the request of Starr’s office. However, a lawyer for Clinton, David Kendall, asked Howell to release additional records involving litigation over alleged leaks by Starr’s personnel. The judge agreed.

Kendall was granted access to the records being considered for release but did not object to the disclosures. Several others mentioned in the files were also notified and did not object.

Kendall did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Justice Department’s decision to appeal the order to make the records public.

The new appeal is not the first time the Trump administration has asserted that the Clintons deserve greater privacy from the government.

When President Donald Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey a year ago, the White House said the firing was justified by a Justice Department memo arguing that Comey unfairly smeared former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by publicly denouncing her email practices during an unusual media appearance to announce the closing of an investigation into the issue.

In addition, when the Justice Department fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe in March, officials cited what they said was his role in an improper disclosure of an investigation into the Clinton Foundation. McCabe has said he was authorized to discuss such matters with the media.

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What Do Whitewater, Ken Starr, Monica Lewinsky & Detroit Have In Common?

We seem to have an interesting set of events occur within the last few weeks.

The #MeToo movement looks like it is being revived, but for reasons other than what one may think.

"I have heard tales of Detroit legends..."

Publicly accusing someone, without the opportunity to confront one's accuser or enter one's story into the public record, not just impugns legacies and careers, but it also sounds like what they do in CPS and FISC, but that is another one of my ad nauseum rants.

Anyway, Monica Lewinsky, an individual who was mob-ridiculed in the public, without aforementioned opportunities, recently raised a relevant question: "What about consent?"

Then, before my eyes, a pattern began to emerge.

Whitewater.

Yes, the Monica Lewinsky investigation was led by a Special Counsel, Ken Starr, who was appointed after the Robert Fiske Whitewater investigation, which seemed to have mysteriously gone nowhere.

The sealed Bill Clinton documents may just reopen the Whitewater investigation, and more.

Whitewater mirrors so much to the Detroit Land Bank Authority, but hey, what do I know?

I wonder if there is going to be a Special Counsel appointed to investigate a "Detroit #MeToo" moment, which will, of course, lead to, oh, how shall I call it.... how about #perkinscoiesucks or...

Stay tuned and butter up your popcorn.

Judge orders release of sealed Bill Clinton documents from Ken Starr probe

A federal judge has ordered the unsealing of documents from then-Independent Counsel Ken Starr’s two-decade old probe that led to former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment.

Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted the order Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from CNN.

According to the judge’s order, CNN journalist Katelyn Polantz requested on Feb. 9, 2018 that eight sealed matters arising from Starr’s 1998 investigation of Clinton “be unsealed and made public.”

Starr’s investigation began with the suicide of Clinton adviser Vince Foster and the Clintons’ Whitewater real estate deal in Arkansas. But it later expanded to include accusations of sexual misconduct and perjury, including Clinton’s relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives in December 1998. Clinton was acquitted of the charges by the Senate, with no Democrats voting to remove him from office.

KEN STARR AND ALAN DERSHOWITZ TALK ROB PORTER, RUSSIA PROBE

The request from CNN includes testimony from former Clinton aides and advisers Bruce Lindsey, Sidney Blumenthal, Nancy Hernreich, Lanny Breuer and Terry Lenzner, as well as testimony from the Secret Service. It also requests other White House documents, in addition to a presidential subpoena.

The FOIA request from CNN indicated the documents could be relevant to procedures for obtaining testimony in special counsel Robert Mueller’s current Russia probe.

It’s not clear when the documents will be released, but Howell ordered them available to the public “promptly.”

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Whitewater: Just My #MeToo Notes - 2-5-1998

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Sources: Lewinsky Won't Say Clinton Told Her To Lie

Clinton denies 'legal charges' as Podesta testifies before grand jury

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Feb. 5) -- Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, even if granted immunity, is not prepared to testify that either President Bill Clinton or his friend Vernon Jordan ever told her flatly to lie under oath about her alleged affair with the president, CNN has learned.

Sources say Lewinsky is prepared to say the president and Jordan urged her to be "evasive," which legal experts say may not meet the test for encouraging perjury and obstructing justice.

Also in this story: Starr says inquiry is 'moving very quickly' Clinton calls executive privilege 'a hypothetical question' Ginsburg not surprised at immunity rejection More details emerge about negotiations Podesta testifies before grand jury A case of mistaken identity?

The sources say Lewinsky's offer is not good enough for Starr, because, on secretly-recorded conversations with onetime friend Linda Tripp, Lewinsky is heard alleging Clinton and Jordan told her to lie.

This was described as the main reason Starr backed away Wednesday from an immunity agreement reached with Lewinsky's lawyer Monday night.

These same sources, close to the investigation, say Lewinsky is prepared to say she had oral sex with Clinton, though not intercourse.

Clinton has vehemently denied having sexual relations with Lewinsky, or telling anyone to lie.

During an Oval Office appearance Thursday with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Clinton three times refused to say what kind of relationship he had with Lewinsky.

"I have already denied the legal charges, strongly, and I do so again," Clinton said. "But there is an ongoing investigation. Under those circumstances, the right thing for me to do is to go back and do the job the American people hired me to do, and that's what I am doing."

Sources say Starr's staff is now asking that Lewinsky submit to a formal interview before any immunity is granted, though he will not discuss particulars.

Starr says inquiry is 'moving very quickly'

In Little Rock, Ark., Starr brushed aside questions Thursday about the status of immunity talks with Lewinsky, but said his investigation into the sex-and-perjury allegations involving Clinton is making progress.

Starr, in Arkansas for a pre-trial hearing in former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker's second trial, said the investigation into the Lewinsky matter is "moving very quickly and we've made very significant progress."

"We are going by the book," Starr said when asked about the immunity discussions with Lewinsky. "We want the truth. We want all the truth. We want it completely, accurately and we will satisfy ourselves that we're getting the truth."

Starr's office is looking into allegations that Clinton had a sexual relationship with Lewinsky, and then urged her to lie about it under oath.

Starr noted that Attorney General Janet Reno gave his office jurisdiction over "very serious allegations" involving the president.

"Those allegations are possible obstruction of justice, intimidation of witnesses and subornation of perjury," Starr said. "That is an extraordinary set of circumstances. We're investigating those as promptly, as quickly as we can."

Starr also declined to comment on a report in Thursday's Washington Post that he has given Lewinsky's lawyers until the end of the week to make the former intern available for questioning, or let her face possible prosecution.

Clinton calls executive privilege 'a hypothetical question'

In his photo ops with Blair, Clinton was asked about whether his aides might assert executive privilege to limit their grand jury testimony, called that "a hypothetical question."

"First let me make it clear that for four years we have been cooperating -- exhaustively," Clinton said. "And that's a hypothetical question as far as I know. Should it arise, I will await a recommendation from the White House counsel about the institutional responsibilities of the presidency, and then when I get it I will make a decision."

Executive privilege is a president's right to withhold specific information, usually deliberations with top aides, from Congress or the courts.

In Little Rock, Starr said the purpose for invoking executive privilege would be to prevent the grand jury from "getting specific information," and he would have to assess his options if the White House goes that route.

Ginsburg not surprised at immunity rejection

Meanwhile, Lewinsky's attorney, William Ginsburg, says he was not surprised that Starr rejected a written statement seeking her immunity from prosecution.

Ginsburg told CNN late Wednesday that he had not spoken to Starr and does not anticipate talking to him anytime soon. "Frankly, I don't want to really deal with him anymore," Ginsburg said.

Ginsburg said he was busy preparing a defense for Lewinsky and he was "hell-bent on telling the truth."

Ginsburg said he was not going to be "intimidated by a man with a mission," saying he had a young woman to defend. He is convinced he will have to defend his client, saying, "That is what I am going to do ... no more games."

"If Judge Starr's object of this whole investigation is to net Monica Lewinsky in a conviction and jail time, then we have to look at how our tax dollars are being spent," Ginsburg told reporters.

When asked about the future, Ginsburg said, "The presidency will be preserved, the American public will have restored confidence in the system, the Congress will have reviewed the office of the Independent Counsel in terms of the legislation that enabled it, and once again we will have some restoration of confidence in government.

"In terms of my client, my client hopefully will be old news, and she will have a job somewhere and building a career," Ginsburg added. "I will be back to the normal practice of country law and no longer in the Beltway. With any luck at all, my next tour will be of New York, not of Washington."

Ginsburg said he expects to return to Washington sometime next week, probably Tuesday or Wednesday.

Word broke Wednesday that Starr had rejected the written statement by Lewinsky's lawyers.

More details emerge about negotiations

Sources familiar with the investigation told CNN that lawyers for Starr and Lewinsky had actually signed an immunity agreement Monday evening, an agreement that Starr has now backed away from.

The sources say Starr's lawyers want to re-open talks, even though Lewinsky and her attorneys, Ginsburg and Nathaniel Speights, signed the agreement on Starr's Office of Independent Counsel stationery.

A well-placed source familiar with the investigation says that Lewinsky's attorneys gave Starr's office a written proffer, or statement, outlining what she would be prepared to say if granted immunity.

But prosecutors apparently concluded that Lewinsky's statement of what she knew was not clear enough. The Washington Post reported today that its source said Lewinsky acknowledged having a sexual relationship with Clinton in the statement, but gave a muddled account of whether she was urged to lie about the relationship when she spoke to lawyers in the Paula Jones case.

Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, has filed a lawsuit against Clinton, alleging that he asked her for oral sex while he was governor, and that after she rebuffed him, she suffered a hostile work environment. That case is due to go to trial in May.

Podesta testifies before grand jury

Meanwhile, the Whitewater grand jury continued to hear testimony in the case. White House Deputy Chief of Staff John Podesta testified and is expected to return to answer more questions Friday.

"I did answer all of the questions put to me today," Podesta told waiting reporters afterward. "Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong denials that the president has made to these allegations, and since I have been asked to return and answer some additional questions, I think that it's best that I not answer any questions out here and reserve that to the grand jury."

Earlier in the day, the grand jury heard from another former White House intern.

Justin Coleman, a 21-year-old former intern at the White House, testified and then told reporters he had no knowledge of a relationship -- "proper or improper" -- between Lewinsky and Clinton.

"I at no time had knowledge of any relationship -- proper or improper -- between the president and Miss Lewinsky," Coleman said. "I support President Clinton and am grateful for the opportunity to have served him and his administration. I leave now to return to Brown University."

Coleman, from Chapel Hill, N.C., said he worked in the White House from August 1997 through January 1998.

A case of mistaken identity?

In West Palm Beach, Fla., Starr has subpoenaed videotapes of Clinton's trip to south Florida last year.

A White House source told CNN that Lewinsky was not on the March 1997 visit to golfer Greg Norman's house.

The subpoena, delivered to WPEC-TV Thursday afternoon, asked the West Palm Beach station to "produce the video tape or video tapes depicting President William Jefferson Clinton with Miss Monica Lewinsky on a trip President Clinton made to Florida during which he visited Greg Norman."

It was on that trip that Clinton tore a tendon in his right knee when he lost his footing on a step at Norman's home.

The management at WPEC told CNN that it has scanned most of the tapes of its coverage of Clinton's visit to south Florida and has found no pictures of Lewinsky.

A White House source said Starr may have confused Lewinsky with a female National Security Council (NSC) staffer who was assigned to the trip.

The source said a West Palm Beach newspaper reporter has shown the White House a videotape from the Clinton visit which pictures the president and the NSC employee exiting a limousine.

A WPEC reporter told CNN that over a week ago editors did find a segment of video showing the president and a dark-haired woman in a limousine, but, when they checked her identity, it was determined she was an NSC employee.

WPEC management said it had not decided as of Thursday afternoon if it would hand over the tapes or challenge the subpoena in court. The subpoena gives the station until Feb. 10 to respond.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer contributed to this report.


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Ken Starr Predicts Impeachment Witnesses Through His Whitewater Powers Of Refusing To #sayhisname

What if Ken Starr is to be a witness in the Senate impeachment trial?

What if Ken Starr becomes indicted by a grand jury?

What if we just sit back, with cocktails & popcorn in in hand and enjoy the falling of the heavens.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=ken+starr

#sayhisname

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Stormy Is Exposing Trafficking Of Tiny Humans In Suing To Removing Attorney Client Privilege?

Is this a Detroit popcorn attorney
client privilege stripper?

Just remember, popcorn strippers come in all shapes and sizes.

#perkincoiesucks

First, Stormy was arrested.

Columbus Police Makes 3 Arrests at Adult Entertainment Club
As part of a long-term investigation into allegations of human trafficking,
prostitution, & other vice related violations, CPD arrested 3 individuals from Club Sirens at 6190 Cleveland Ave., early this morning, 7/12/18. pic.twitter.com/UJQzJ3iI6c

— Columbus Ohio Police (@ColumbusPolice) July 12, 2018

Then, this comes out.

STORMY DANIELS BUST PART OF LARGER HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION INVESTIGATION

 So, based upon all this, I am just going to put it out there that Whitewater is back and in full force.

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Ohio Child Welfare Fraud: Human Trafficking, A Pastor & $230 Million

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What Do Whitewater, Ken Starr, Monica Lewinsky & Detroit Have In Common?

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Lanny Davis worked on Whitewater.

Then, Michael Cohen retains Lanny Davis to renounce his, well, I guess, pending stripping of "attorney client privilege" with Trump, just like Stormy is doing with Cohen.

Did @rudygiuliani really say on Sunday shows that @michaelcohen212 should cooperate with prosecutors and tell the truth? Seriously? Is that Trump and Giuliani definition of “truth”? Trump/Giuliani next to the word “truth” = oxymoron. Stay tuned. #thetruthmatters

— Lanny Davis (@LannyDavis) July 9, 2018

Stay tuned, chill that wine and pop that popcorn.

Stormy Daniels’s arrest, and the campaign to discredit her

Stormy Daniels has struck again — or rather, according to Ohio authorities, she “fondled.” The backward legislation that landed the adult-film actress in trouble has a lot in common with the conservative campaign to discredit her.

While performing her “Make America Horny Again” act on Wednesday night at a strip club in Columbus, Daniels was arrested on three counts of touching a patron (and, allegedly, undercover police officers) at a “sexually oriented business.” Ohio law, it turns out, prohibits “nude or seminude” employees from physical contact with customers who aren’t, uh, their immediate family members. The charges were dismissed on Thursday.

Daniels’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, called his client’s arrest a “sting operation” and a “setup” that “reeks of desperation” from those worried about the adult-film actress’s lawsuit against President Trump and Michael Cohen over the hush agreement governing her alleged 2006 affair with the president.

It’s fair to say things look fishy. That the charges were so speedily dismissed suggests there wasn’t much merit to them in the first place. The Columbus Dispatch reported last year that the “no-touching” law was rarely enforced, and had not been cited even once in the county in its 10 years of existence. Plus, as Avenatti said, Daniels had performed her act all across the country without any trouble.

But whether Avenatti is on-point or simply paranoid, it’s worth looking at the motivations behind Ohio’s so-called Community Defense Actand how they dovetail with the Trump camp’s attacks against Daniels.

Daniels was arrested, in effect, for being a stripper — for doing what customers come to strip clubs to see strippers do, and what, in many cases, they pay extra for. The law, backed by conservative Christian advocates, essentially seeks to stop strippers from stripping the way they want to, and the language it uses to do so is telling: A performer not only faces a penalty for touching a patron, but also for allowing herself to be touched by a patron.

The rule plays on people’s moral disapprobation to cast the dancer as a crook even in consensual interactions that clearly have two parties involved. (Patrons aren’t allowed to touch dancers, either, but there’s no rule against them “allowing” themselves to be touched.) She becomes responsible for someone else’s actions as well as her own, essentially because, by stripping in the first place, she has put herself in a compromising position.

The Trump team has tried to play the same trick throughout the Daniels scandal. Even as they’ve denied the president’s liaison with the porn star, they have taken pains to attack Daniels for what she does — to diminish her credibility and to diminish her claim that she deserves protection at all.

“I don’t respect a porn star the way I respect a career woman, or a woman of substance, or a woman who has great respect for herself as a woman, and as a person,” Trump’s lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, saidlast month. He added, “Explain to me how she could be damaged. She has no reputation. If you’re going to sell your body for money, you just don’t have a reputation.”

Trump said Giuliani was “doing a very good job.”

No matter what happened, this argument goes, Daniels had it coming. It’s not so concerning to Trump’s defenders that he may have cheated on his wife four months after she gave birth to their first child together. Any fallout that harms him is Daniels’s fault, and any fallout that hurts her is her fault, too. The president is the president, after all. The porn star is a porn star.

This attitude — that a woman is responsible not only for what she does with her body, but for what a man does to it, too — is a variant of the “she-was-asking-for-it” argument so common among those who commit sexual assault. It took a while for society to stop accepting the defense so readily for any woman. But when it’s deployed against a stripper, or an adult-film actress, or someone else so many Americans still deem deviant, it’s easier to get away with. And perhaps it’s even easier for the president. After all, when you’re a star like he is, you can do anything.

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All Hail The Whistleblowers: Happy Whistleblower Day Greetings From Linda Tripp's FCPA Psyop

This is interesting.

Linda Tripp enters the stage, but why now?

I have never been a fan of Linda Tripp for what she did to Monica Lewinsky.

I felt so bad for Monica.

They smeared her almost as badly as they smear parents who go through Child Protective Services.

She never had the chance to tell her story, the real story.

I always believed the Lewenski scandal was a black psyop with all the traditionally salacious propaganda to distract from Whitewater, and everything going on around it in the White House.

Today is Whistleblower Day.

Great.

I see this as just another propaganda campaign being launched to distract from what is really going on.

I just adore transposable models.


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WATCH LIVE: Linda Tripp Speaks at Capitol Hill Whistleblower Event

WASHINGTON (Circa) Leading members of Congress, key government officials, and prominent whistleblowers will come together in a historic celebration on Capitol Hill in honor of National Whistleblower Day. The invite-only event will reflect on the courageous achievements of whistleblowers in exposing corruption, and chart a new course for the future of whistleblower policy in the United States. This event is scheduled to begin at 11 AM ET.

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I find it odd that this man, Stephen Cohen, fails to understand that the False Claims Act was not designed for the post-Emancipation Proclamation era because it does not address the issues, contained within child welfare.

Children have no civil rights, so children have no standing under the False Claims Act.

Parents have no rights but corporate parents do, as they will always be the fraudfeasors.

Now, you have those dreaded Public Private Partnerships, where a Corporate Shape Shifter can travel across that salient line between being a Ham Sandwich of a fake corporation, or claiming to be a Pseudo-Governmental-Organization (PGO <=== I just made that up).

How can you sue a Ham Sandwich?

What if that Ham Sandwich was made in a foreign nation?

The whistleblower narrative is being commandeered and steered away from the sister to the False Claims Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

I just smell something fishy about this Whistleblower Day, but hey, what do I know?

Stephen M. Kohn is a founding director of the National Whistleblower Center and a partner at Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, LLP. He has been a trailblazer in establishing protections for whistleblowers since 1984. He won the first major Swiss bank whistleblower case, where his client’s disclosures resulted in $13 billion collected in fines and penalties, forcing thousands of Americans to close their illegal Swiss bank accounts.

Ultimately, his client obtained the largest monetary reward ever paid by the government to an individual whistleblower ($104 million dollars). He has written ten books, including the first-ever manual on whistleblower law and the highly popular Whistleblower’s Handbook. Mr. Kohn was ranked by the National Law Journal as among America’s fifty top plaintiff’s lawyers.

FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT

An Overview

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, 15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd-1, et seq. ("FCPA"), was enacted for the purpose of making it unlawful for certain classes of persons and entities to make payments to foreign government officials to assist in obtaining or retaining business. Specifically, the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA prohibit the willful use of the mails or any means of instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of any offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment of money or anything of value to any person, while knowing that all or a portion of such money or thing of value will be offered, given or promised, directly or indirectly, to a foreign official to influence the foreign official in his or her official capacity, induce the foreign official to do or omit to do an act in violation of his or her lawful duty, or to secure any improper advantage in order to assist in obtaining or retaining business for or with, or directing business to, any person.

Since 1977, the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA have applied to all U.S. persons and certain foreign issuers of securities. With the enactment of certain amendments in 1998, the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA now also apply to foreign firms and persons who cause, directly or through agents, an act in furtherance of such a corrupt payment to take place within the territory of the United States.

The FCPA also requires companies whose securities are listed in the United States to meet its accounting provisions. See 15 U.S.C. § 78m. These accounting provisions, which were designed to operate in tandem with the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA, require corporations covered by the provisions to (a) make and keep books and records that accurately and fairly reflect the transactions of the corporation and (b) devise and maintain an adequate system of internal accounting controls.

For particular FCPA compliance questions relating to specific conduct, you should seek the advice of counsel as well as consider using the Department of Justice's FCPA Opinion Procedure, found here.

CONTACT US REGARDING THE FCPA

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Correspondence relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) may be sent to:

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The Tale Of Judiciary Jolly Jerry's Quest For Brett Kavanaugh Working Papers

Gather round, my dearies, for the Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed shall tell the tale of Judiciary Jolly Jerry and his quest for Brett Kavanaugh's Working Papers.

Once upon a time, there were these FOX operatives, for it is impossible for me to recognize them as journalists, who peddle their wares by distracting the public with flesh, devoid of sources or intellect, which could have easily have been found with a basic internet search for the Wikipedia entry.

Brett did not just work with Ken Starr, he also was the one who worked on numerous investigations

The Ken Starr Special Counsel Team, featuring Brett Kavanaugh

of Bill Clinton's presidency, and allegedly wrote the Ken Starr Report, which unlocked the constitutional mechanisms for House Judiciary to commence impeachment proceedings.

Now, with this Wikipedia information in hand, executed through a basic Google search of the term "Brett Kavanaugh", this brings us to Monica Lewinsky.

It seems Brett worked with the former Chief of Staff for House Judiciary, Julian *Slimy Slime Slime* Epstein, of which I never queried on how he got the job, but I will just go out there on a limb and say Hillary Clinton more than likely had something to do with Julian getting hired because she worked on the Nixon impeachment proceedings.

She just refuses to #sayhisname

Julian *Slimy Slime Slime* Epstein, known for his "fabulous" New York parties, set up the impeachment hearings by making it into a sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky, then denied her due process of legal representation or the right to testify and tell her story, which was Whitewater.

Whitewater was the progenitor of the Detroit Land Bank Authority and was set up by Perkins Coie, which sucks.

#perkinscoiesucks

So, now it seems Jolly Jerry Nadler is going after Brett's work product to find out how they switched out Special Counsel Bob Fiske, who supposedly was investigating the original model for stealin', which was transposed and enhanced for Detroit, recognized as the Arkansas Finance Development Authority, and replace it with #MeToo to impeach Trump.

But Doug Collins, the Ranking Member, does not like that idea of digging for a way to launch impeachment proceedings and really does not want to deal with the fact that he will not #sayhisname, nor does he want to be indicted for what happened in House Judiciary, the congressional votes, the GOP, and the children.

Doug has fear in his eyes, but only I can see it, well, maybe not just me....

I know Justin Amish knows why Doug has fear.

I know Bob MAXIMUS GOODLATTECUS Goodlatte knows the origin of this fear.

Jason Chaffetz also knows what this fear is.

Brett used to work on George Bush's campaign with John Roberts in the Florida ballot "chad" issue.

Brett also worked as a staff secretary during 911, so Brett knows stuff because he was recruiting federal judges for appointments.

Senate Judiciary knows all about this, but intentionally neglected to address this in Brett's SCOTUS confirmation hearings, and instead, pulled the old switch-o-change-o model and give the public another sex scandal, to distract the masses in another Pied Piper campaign, just like they are trying to do with the impeachment proceedings.

See, the impeachment proceedings are really not about Trump.

The impeachment proceedings are being constructed as a cover up for not having to #sayhisname, but they have no choice but to #sayhisname because I am going to make them say it.

This is sanguinely entertaining because I know Slimy Slime Slime is advising Jolly Jerry.

This is about Medicaid fraud in child welfare and we are in a Constitutional Crisis.

#sayhisname

Jerry Nadler makes new push for Kavanaugh’s White House records

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler is moving to bring new scrutiny to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s past, asking the National Archives on Tuesday to release a large cache of records related to his time in George W. Bush's White House.

In a letter from Nadler and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), another senior Judiciary Committee member, the lawmakers said accessing the records are essential to "the public's faith in the integrity of the judiciary."

The effort reopens a debate over Kavanaugh's nomination, which became the subject of fierce partisan rancor during his confirmation hearings last year after Kavanaugh faced allegations of sexual assault.

Democrats also argued they lacked access to records pertaining to Kavanaugh's government work that were important to his qualifications. Ultimately, the Senate supported his nomination along nearly partisan lines, but Democrats vowed to continue seeking records about his background.

Nadler and Johnson emphasized that the Senate only received a sliver of Kavanaugh's records from his White House tenure, which ran from 2001 to 2006, when he served in the White House counsel's office and later as staff secretary.

Then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley requested records from Kavanaugh's time in the counsel's office but later withdrew his request after the committee received some of the documents it sought.

But Nadler and Johnson say the likelihood that Kavanaugh will rule on matters like abortion rights, executive authority and other topics within the purview of the Judiciary Committee increases the urgency for them to obtain the full slate of records from his White House tenure — information they say is on track to be released in 2021 anyway under the Presidential Records Act.

In the interim, the committee members say the National Archives and Records Administration should begin producing documents that Grassley initially requested and then, on a "rolling basis," Kavanaugh's emails and any "textual records" in his office files from his time as staff secretary.

The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee ripped Nadler's push as "harassment" of Kavanaugh.

“Chairman Nadler’s request is so far outside the scope of judicial ethics, it’s harassment,” said Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.). “Senate Democrats spent months launching false accusations in an attempt to smear Justice Kavanaugh’s reputation and block his confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, and now House Democrats want to follow suit with yet another fishing expedition to tarnish his good name.”

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Whitewater2: Arkansas Development Finance Authority & Detroit Land Bank Authority - Preparation Material

What Do Whitewater, Ken Starr, Monica Lewinsky & Detroit Have In Common?

#Whitewater2

Whitewater Time Line

The drama now known as Whitewater has a definitive starting point: a land purchase in 1978. It has taken a complicated course ever since. Follow the unraveling of allegations with this timeline.

1978
Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton join with James B. and Susan McDougal to borrow $203,000 to buy 220 acres of land in Arkansas' Ozark Mountains. They soon form the Whitewater Development Corp., intending to build vacation homes.

Clinton is elected governor.

1980
Clinton loses his reelection bid and enters private legal practice.

James McDougal, who served briefly as Gov. Clinton's economic development director, quits government to buy a small bank in Kingston, Ark. He loans $30,000 to Hillary Clinton to build a model house on a Whitewater lot.

1982
McDougal buys a small savings and loan and names it Madison Guaranty.

After two years as a private citizen, Clinton is once again elected governor.

1984
Federal regulators begin to question the financial stability and lending practices of Madison Guaranty, criticizing Madison's speculative land deals, insider-lending and hefty commissions paid to the McDougals and others.

Clinton is reelected.

1985
James McDougal holds a fund-raising event at Madison Guaranty to help pay off a $50,000 Clinton campaign debt. Investigators later determine some of the money was improperly withdrawn from depositor funds.

McDougal hires the Rose Law Firm, where Hillary Clinton is a partner, to do legal work for the ailing savings and loan.

Hillary Clinton and another Rose lawyer seek state regulatory approval for recapitalization plan for Madison.

1986
McDougal borrows $300,000 from a company owned by David Hale, a former Little Rock judge. Hale's company receives federal funds from the Small Business Administration to lend to disadvantaged business owners, but an investigation 10 years later alleges that he lent up to $3 million to political figures instead.

Citing improper practices, federal regulators remove McDougal as Madison Guaranty's president, but he retains ownership.

1988
Witnesses from the Rose Law Firm say Hillary Clinton requested the destruction of Madison land contract files.

Hillary Clinton writes James McDougal to ask for power of attorney to sell off remaining Whitewater lots and clear up bank obligations.

1989
Madison Guaranty collapses after a series of bad loans and a change in government accounting procedures. The federal government shuts it down and spends $60 million bailing it out.

James McDougal is indicted on federal fraud charges related to his management of a Madison real estate subsidiary.

1990
McDougal is acquitted.

1992
The Clinton presidential campaign gathers information on Whitewater and Madison Guaranty. A report commissioned by the campaign claims the Clintons lost $68,000 on Whitewater, an estimate later adjusted down to somewhat over $40,000.

The Federal Resolution Trust Corp., investigating causes of Madison's failure, sends a referral to the Justice Department that names the Clintons as "potential beneficiaries" of illegal activities at Madison.

January 1993
Clinton's first term as president begins.

May 1993
White House fires seven employees in the travel office, possibly to make room for Clinton friends. An FBI investigation of the office ensues, allegedly opened under pressure from the White House to justify the firings.

June 1993
Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster files three years of delinquent Whitewater corporate tax returns.

July 1993
Foster is found dead in a Washington area park. Police rule the death a suicide. Federal investigators are not allowed access to Foster's office immediately after the discovery, but White House aides enter Foster's office shortly after his death, giving rise to speculation that files were removed from his office.

September 1993
First of three meetings in which Treasury Department officials tip off Clinton aides about the progress of the RTC investigation.

October 1993
RTC's criminal referral is rejected by Paula Casey, U.S. attorney in Little Rock and former law student of Bill Clinton.

December 1993
The White House agrees to turn over Whitewater documents to the Justice Department, which had been preparing to subpoena them. These documents include files found in Foster's office.

January 1994
Attorney General Janet Reno names New York lawyer and former U.S. attorney Robert B. Fiske Jr. as special counsel to investigate the Clintons' involvement in Whitewater. Fiske announces he will also explore a potential link between Foster's suicide and his intimate knowledge of the developing Whitewater scandal.

February 1994
Republican attorney Jay Stephens is appointed to head the Resolution Trust Corp.'s investigation of the failure of Madison Guaranty.

March 1994
Webster L. Hubbell abruptly resigns as associate attorney general after allegations are raised about his conduct at the Rose Law Firm. Two of Clinton's top political advisers call business friends and line up more than $500,000 for Hubbell, including $100,000 from the Lippo Group. Hubbell is later convicted of fraud and serves 18 months in jail.

Summer 1994
The House and Senate Banking committees begin hearings on Whitewater. Twenty-nine Clinton administration officials are subpoenaed or testify at congressional hearings. All are cleared of any wrongdoing.

August 5, 1994
A U.S. Court of Appeals panel refuses to re-appoint Fiske as special counsel, citing a possible conflict of interest because he was appointed by Clinton's attorney general, Janet Reno. Kenneth W. Starr, a former federal appeals court judge and U.S. solicitor who worked in the Reagan and Bush administrations, succeeds Fiske as the independent counsel to investigate Whitewater-Madison matters. He reissues subpoenas for documents, such as the Rose billing records of Hillary Clinton.

Jan. 3, 1995
The Democratic majority on the Senate Banking Committee releases a report finding no laws were broken in the Whitewater matter.

April 22, 1995
Starr interviews the Clintons privately.

July 18, 1995
The Senate Special Whitewater Committee, chaired by Republican Alfonse D'Amato, begins hearings on Whitewater and on Foster's suicide. D'Amato is also a chairman of Republican Bob Dole's presidential campaign. The hearings last 11 months.

Aug. 10, 1995
The House Banking Committee, chaired by Republican Jim Leach of Iowa, finishes its examination and finds no illegalities.

Aug. 17, 1995
A grand jury charges James and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker with bank fraud relating to questionable loans.

Oct. 26, 1995
The Senate Whitewater committee issues 49 subpoenas to federal agencies and others involved in the affair.

Dec. 12, 1995
White House associate counsel William H. Kennedy III, who worked at the Rose Law Firm, refuses to release subpoenaed notes of a 1993 meeting between administration officials and the president's lawyers about Whitewater.

Dec. 20, 1995
The Senate votes along party lines to enforce the subpoena. The next day, the White House drops its claim to attorney-client privilege and releases the notes. They prove vague and do not reveal any illegality, but contain the phrase "Vacuum Rose law files WWDC Docs – subpoena."

Jan. 4, 1996
Hillary Clinton's billing records from the Rose Law Firm are found on a table in the White House residence book room after two years. Clinton aide Carolyn Huber says she found the bills in August 1995 but didn't realize their significance until coming across them again. The documents include copies of bills for Hillary Clinton's legal work, showing she performed 60 hours of legal work for Madison in 1985 and 1986.

Jan. 8, 1996
In a commentary titled "Blizzard of Lies," New York Times columnist William Safire describes Hillary Clinton as "a congenital liar." White House press secretary Michael McCurry said if Clinton were not president he "would have delivered a more forceful response to that [column] on the bridge of Mr. Safire's nose."

Jan. 15, 1996
Republicans suggest billing documents may have been withheld from their investigation to disguise how much work Hillary Clinton had done for Madison Guaranty. The White House issues a denial.

Jan. 22, 1996
Kenneth Starr subpoenas Hillary Clinton in a criminal probe to determine if records were intentionally withheld. This is the first time a wife of a sitting president has been subpoenaed.

Jan. 26, 1996
Hillary Clinton testifies before a grand jury about the discovery and content of the billing records.

March 4, 1996
Whitewater trial of Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker (D) and the McDougals begins in Little Rock.

April 22, 1996
David Hale, the former owner of a government-funded lending company who has pleaded guilty to two felonies, testifies at Whitewater trial that in early 1985 then governor Bill Clinton pressured him to make a fraudulent $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal and asked that his name be kept out of the transaction.

April 28, 1996
Clinton testifies on videotape as a defense witness for just over four hours. He denies Hale's charge. The tape is played to the Whitewater trial jury on May 9.

May 26, 1996
Gov. Tucker and the McDougals are convicted of nearly all the fraud and conspiracy charges Starr lodged against them 10 months earlier.

May 28, 1996
The White House acknowledges that during four months in late 1993 it wrongly collected FBI background reports on hundreds, including prominent Republicans. Director of personnel security, Craig Livingstone, later takes responsibility.

June 17, 1996
"Second" Whitewater trial begins. Arkansas bankers Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert Hill are accused of illegally using bank funds to reimburse themselves for political contributions, including contributions to Clinton's gubernatorial and presidential campaigns.

June 18, 1996
The Senate Whitewater committee finishes its investigation. Republicans and Democrats remain divided in their respective reports on whether the Clintons committed any ethical breaches.

July 7, 1996
President Clinton testifies on tape for the second Whitewater trial.

July 15, 1996
Jim Guy Tucker resigns as governor of Arkansas.

July 16 & 17, 1996
Deputy White House Counsel Bruce Lindsey, named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Branscum-Hill trial, testifies about his role as the treasurer of Clinton's gubernatorial reelection effort in 1990. He says he never sought to conceal from regulators two large cash withdrawals he ordered.

July 18, 1996
President Clinton's videotaped testimony from July 7 is aired at the trial. In it, Clinton denies naming the two defendants to unsalaried state posts in exchange for contributions to his 1990 gubernatorial campaign.

Aug. 1, 1996
In a major setback for Starr's investigation, Branscum and Hill are cleared on four counts of bank fraud by a federal jury, which deadlocks on seven other charges.

Aug. 19, 1996
Former governor Tucker receives a suspended four-year sentence after his doctor testifies that he would likely die of liver disease if imprisoned. Tucker is placed under home detention and fined $319,000.

Aug. 20, 1996
Susan McDougal is sentenced to two years in prison for her role in obtaining an illegal loan for the Whitewater venture.

Sept. 4, 1996
Susan McDougal, who had considered cooperating with prosecutors, says she doesn't trust them. She enters jail for contempt of court rather than testify in front of a grand jury.

Sept. 23, 1996
An FDIC inspector general's report concludes Hillary Clinton drafted a real estate document that Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan used to "deceive" federal regulators in 1986.

Sept. 30, 1996
The General Accounting Office reports that independent counsels investigating President Clinton and his administration have spent more than $25 million. Starr alone has spent more than $17 million.

Nov. 24, 1996
Clinton's former campaign strategist for the 1992 election, James Carville, announces plans to attack Starr as a partisan hatchet man with a right-wing agenda.

Feb. 17, 1997
Starr unexpectedly announces he will leave his post as independent counsel in August to become the dean of Pepperdine University Law School in California. After much criticism, Starr reverses his decision four days later and resolves to keep his post until after the investigation is completed.

April 10, 1997
On a radio talk show, Hillary Clinton denies that hush money was arranged for former law partner Webster L. Hubbell. She says Whitewater reminds her "of some people's obsession with UFOs and the Hale-Bopp comet some days."

April 14, 1997
James B. McDougal is sentenced to three years in prison for his conviction on 18 fraud and conspiracy charges. Starr requested a reduced sentence for McDougal for assisting the prosecution.

April 22, 1997
The U.S. District Court extends the Whitewater grand jury's term six more months, until Nov. 7, after Starr says he has "extensive evidence" of possible obstruction of justice.

April 25, 1997
8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, overruling a lower court, says the White House must turn over subpoenaed notes to Starr. The notes, for which the White House claimed attorney-client privilege, were taken by White House lawyers when investigators questioned the First Lady.

May 2, 1997
The White House announces that it will appeal the decision on the subpoenaed notes to the Supreme Court.

June 23, 1997
The Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal, and the White House turns over the notes.

June 25, 1997
The Washington Post reports that Whitewater prosecutors have been questioning Arkansas state troopers about President Clinton's personal life, including possible extramarital affairs he may have had while Arkansas governor.

July 15, 1997
Starr's office concludes that Vincent Foster's death in 1993 was a suicide.

July 30, 1997
Susan McDougal, being detained for contempt of court, is moved into a federal detention facility after seven months in two Los Angeles jails, much of which she spent locked in a windowless cell 23 hours a day. The move comes a week after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit alleging that McDougal was being held, at Starr's request, in "barbaric" conditions in an attempt to coerce her to testify.

Sept. 30, 1997
The General Accounting Office announces that Starr had spent over $25 million on his investigation as of March 1997.

January 16, 1998
Starr receives permission to expand his investigation into whether Clinton and his close friend Vernon E. Jordan Jr. encouraged a 24-year-old former White House intern to lie under oath about her alleged affair with the president.

March 8, 1998
James McDougal dies just months before he hoped to be released from prison.

April 1, 1998
The General Accounting Office announces that Starr had spent nearly $30 million on his investigation as of September 1997.

April 16, 1998
Starr says there is no end in sight to his investigation, and officially declines the Pepperdine job, which was being held open for him.

April 23, 1998
Susan McDougal, finally serving her two-year fraud sentence after completing her 18-month contempt of court sentence, refuses yet again to testify before Starr's Little Rock grand jury.

April 25, 1998
Starr and deputies question Hillary Rodham Clinton about Whitewater for nearly five hours at the White House. The testimony is videotaped for the Little Rock grand jury.

April 30, 1998
A new set of tax evasion and fraud charges is brought against Webster Hubbell.

May 4, 1998
Susan McDougal is indicted on charges of criminal contempt and obstruction.

April 30, 1998
A federal judge dismisses the tax and fraud charges against Hubbell and criticizes Starr for going on "the quintessential fishing expedition."

Nov. 13, 1998
Starr brings a third indictment against Hubbell, this one alleging lies to Congress and federal banking regulators.

Nov. 19, 1998
During the first day of impeachment hearings, Starr clears Clinton in relation to the firing of White House travel office workers in 1993 and the improper collection of FBI files revealed in 1996. He also says his office drafted an impeachment referral stemming from Whitewater in 1997, but decided not to send it because the evidence was insufficient.

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