Time: Sat Jun 21 03:30:46 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA28327; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 03:28:52 -0700 (MST) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA01916; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 03:28:44 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 03:27:11 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Starr Hires 4 New DC Prosecutors (fwd) <snip> > >Beefing up Washington office by hiring four > >Associated Press, 06/19/97 19:20 > >WASHINGTON (AP) - Signaling his investigation is far from over, >Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr is adding three prosecutors to his >Washington staff and bringing back a former deputy who told an appeals >court that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton could be indicted. > >Starr announced Thursday that among the new prosecutors' specialties is >expertise in handling white-collar crime, public corruption and >obstruction-of-justice cases. > >Returning to the Whitewater investigation full-time as a deputy >independent counsel in Washington is John Bates, a 17-year veteran of >the U.S. attorney's office in the nation's capital. Bates was a deputy >in the Whitewater probe from 1995 until four months ago, when he went >back to the U.S. attorney's office. In a brief interview, Bates declined >to say what his return signifies. > >Bates would say only that the current head of the Washington office, >Jackie Bennett, will remain on the job and that the two prosecutors both >will be deputy independent counsels in the Whitewater probe. > >``We certainly are investigating individuals and those individuals >including Mrs. Clinton could be indicted,'' Bates told three federal >appeals judges in a Whitewater court case in St. Louis earlier this >year. > >Bates' statement in court came as Whitewater prosecutors were seeking >the notes of conversations that White House lawyers had with Mrs. >Clinton about the criminal investigation of the president and first >lady. An appeals court ruled in favor of the prosecutors. The Supreme >Court is considering whether to take a White House appeal. > >The White House is fighting to keep the subpoenaed notes confidential, >claiming attorney-client privilege. The prosecutors assert that a grand >jury subpoena for the notes trumps any claim of attorney-client >privilege by the White House. > >The notes were taken as Whitewater prosecutors investigated the handling >of documents from the White House office of the late Vincent Foster and >the still unexplained reappearance of Mrs. Clinton's law firm billing >records in the White House family residence. Mrs. Clinton's billing >records - which turned up two years after they were subpoenaed in the >Whitewater probe - bear Foster's handwriting. The records outline Mrs. >Clinton's work for the failing savings and loan that is at the center of >the Whitewater probe. > >The other three additions to the Washington office: > >-Michael Emmick, chief of the public-corruption and government fraud >section in the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles. > >-Bruce Udolf, chief of the public-corruption section in the U.S. >attorney's office in Miami. Udolf tried cases against the former mayor >of Miami Beach and several city council members. Udolf has significant >experience in prosecution of fraud, obstruction of justice and civil >rights violations, the Whitewater prosecutor's office announced in a >news release. > >-Mary Anne Wirth, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern >district of New York. > >The renewed activity follows two well-publicized missteps by Starr. He >decided earlier this year to take a position at Pepperdine University in >August. The announcement came despite the fact that Starr still has not >decided what action, if any, to take against the president and first >lady. Facing heavy criticism over his decision, Starr postponed his >departure from the Whitewater probe indefinitely. > >Starr drew heavy criticism from the Clintons' lawyer in recent weeks >over a New York Times Magazine article that said Starr ``provided >background assistance for this article.'' Lawyer David Kendall said >Starr had violated grand jury secrecy rules, an accusation Starr denied. > >The magazine article said that ``according to prosecutors'' there are >newly discovered documents that might cast light on the truthfulness of >Mrs. Clinton's statements to federal investigators. > > >-> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com >-> Posted by: kalliste@aci.net (J. Orlin Grabbe) > > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.2 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. ======================================================================== [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.]
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