Vincent J. Curtis
2 Sept 2016
Courtesy of
prorev.com:
In the mid-1990s,
federal special prosecutor Kenneth Starr’s investigative team in Little Rock
was headed by a veteran of the courtroom, Hickman Ewing Jr. Grilled by Ewing
before a grand jury on July 22, l995, Mrs. Clinton used the words "I can’t
recall" in answer to 50 questions. Later, Ewing told Starr that he rated
Mrs. Clinton’s testimony as deserving an F Minus, and he wanted to indict the
nation’s first lady.
He was contemplating a number of counts, headed by two
major lines of enquiry. First came her handling of the commodity trades and her
failure to report her profits to the IRS. Second came her conduct amid the
collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, owned by Jim McDougal. Relevant
to this affair were Hillary Clinton’s billings as a legal counsel to Madison
Guaranty. These were germane to the question of whether Hillary was being
truthful in denying she’d done any legal work for the bank.
After many
adventures, the records finally came into the hands of Starr’s team and showed
that Hillary Clinton had billed Madison Guaranty at the rate of $150 an hour,
with a total of 60 hours of supposed work on the Castle Grande deal.
The
prosecutors had the billings but were never able to look at Hillary’s time
sheets. Her secretary removed them from the Rose Law Firm in 1992, and it’s
generally assumed the first lady destroyed them.
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