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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Starr Hires 4 New DC Prosecutors (fwd)
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>Beefing up Washington office by hiring four
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>Associated Press, 06/19/97 19:20
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>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.
>
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