Posted on 07/28/2002 8:11:43 AM PDT by KLT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are asking the federal government to reimburse legal fees stemming from the investigation of their failed Whitewater land deal, the couple's attorney said on Friday.
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David Kendall said in a statement that the Clintons were following a precedent set by previous presidents Ronald Reagan ( news - web sites) and George Bush, who were also investigated but not indicted by an independent counsel in what was known as the Iran-Contra scandal.
Kendall did not say how much money was involved, but ABC News' World News Tonight, which first reported the Kendall statement, said the Clintons were seeking the return of $3.5 million in legal fees.
Clinton and his wife Hillary, who is now a Democratic senator from New York, were never charged with any wrongdoing in the failed Arkansas land investment scheme.
"As explicitly authorized by the statute, and following the precedent set by presidents Reagan and Bush, the Clintons have applied for reimbursement of their legal fees incurred in connection with the Independent Counsel's Whitewater investigation," Kendall said in a statement.
Reagan was awarded $562,000 by a federal court in 1996, while Bush received $272,300 in reimbursed legal fees.
Now wouldn't that be nice....
David, Bill, and Hillary, three seriously suffering from CSON.
Circumcision Scars On Neck
Bottom line; before you get one nickle, Mr. and Mrs. 'X42', you must provide proof to the Congress how (from what sources) your legal expenses were paid.
Disclosure and discovery can sometimes be a wonderful deterrant to fraud.
Bottom line; before you get one nickle, Mr. and Mrs. 'X42', you must provide proof to the Congress how (from what sources) your legal expenses were paid.
Disclosure and discovery can sometimes be a wonderful deterrant to fraud.
We all know, how much came out of their own pockets....
ZERO, ZIP, NADA, NUTHIN, ZOOL!
And add to that, let the filthy klintons REPAY our treasury dept the costs of the Independent Counsels investigatation that went on for SEVEN MONTHS after klinton LIED to our nation ( I still want to puke when I remember that immature out of control so called president when he trotted out mad albright and other cabinet creeps of his administration to state how much they believed klinton's lies). What a sham. What sick people.
If the klintons had not obfuscated the IC's investigation, had COORPERATED with the IC in a search for the truth like Ronald Reagan did during his Iran-Contra investigation, had WAIVED attorney/ client privilege like Ronald Reagan did, in fact, like President George Bush did way back during the SEC's look at the Harken corp, OUR NATION WOULD HAVE SAVED MILLIONS IN INVESTIGATIVE FEES.
SO SCREW THE KLINTONS! The klintons certainly screwed all of us during that horrid reign of disgusting lying and obfuscation and blame placing. And I would like some of our money BACK!
In fact---PRESENT them for the bill of the IC investigation IN FULL....because they did EVERYTHING they could to hamper it....EVERYTHING. And in doing so, they cost the TAXPAYER MILLIONS!
Shove THIS in their faces and then let um complain about WhiteWater than saw many of their associates in that fiasco GO TO JAIL. Including a sitting govenor.
The klintons are about ONE THING.
GREED!!!!!!!!!!
They took us for a ride for eight years. Enough is enough.
RE-IMPEACH. CONVICT. DETHRONE.
DISBAR. DE-PENSION. DE-LEGITIMIZE.
INDICT. CONVICT. IMPRISON. DISCARD KEY.
FReegards...MUD
Somebody pull their batteries out, please??
STANDING OVATION...MUD...YOU HIT THE NAIL ON HIS HEAD!
Once a crook, always a crook.
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