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...STARR STRUCK...
Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation suffered its first major setback when an Arkansas federal judge threw out one of the two indictments Starr recently obtained against Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker. Judge Henry Woods ruled that charges growing out of a cable-TV deal, which alleged Tucker had falsified a loan application and schemed to evade taxes, dealt with matters beyond the counsel's Whitewater jurisdiction. Starr said he would appeal...
...federal judge threw out a fraud indictment against Governor Jim Guy Tucker of Arkansas, the most prominent figure snared in the Whitewater investigation of special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. "This is a major blow to Starr," says Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. "It means that he can no longer go after whomever he wants. His authority is being cut back." Tucker, a Democrat, had been accused of obtaining a federally backed loan under false pretenses and trying to avoid taxes. U.S. District Judge Henry Woods said the charges bore no resemblance to the matters Starr has been assigned to investigate. Ratan cautions...
Republicans, who have never hesitated to charge Clinton with all kinds of wrongdoing, were uncharacteristically low-key in the wake of Starr's latest indictments. Senator Al D'Amato insists that the indictments prove the need for more hearings by his Senate Banking Committee: "These indictments are troubling and disturbing and point to a pattern of wrongdoing among people closely associated with the President and the First Lady.'' Starr has not announced the end of his investigation and, even as Administration officials predicted a positive conclusion for the Clintons, a federal judge extended Starr's grand jury another six months...
...were 11 new charges against Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, who did legal work for the failed savings and loan owned by the McDougals. (Tucker was indicted in June on separate charges.) President Clinton and his wife were not charged-as an accompanying press release from independent counsel Kenneth Starr pointed...