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	Wikinfo \| Jim Guy Tucker
		Jim Guy Tucker was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on 12 June 1943.
		Tucker was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth Congress and served from 3 January 1977-3 January 1979).
		Tucker resumed the practice of law until elected Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas in 1990 and succeeded to the governorship upon the resignation of Governor Bill Clinton on 12 December 1992.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Jim_Guy_Tucker (548 words)

	Jim Guy Tucker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jim Guy Tucker was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
		Tucker was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth Congress and served from 3 January 1977 - 3 January 1979.
		Tucker won election in 1994 but was convicted of one count of conspiracy and one count of mail fraud in 1996 as part of Kenneth Starr's investigation of the Whitewater scandal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Guy_Tucker (655 words)

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		Tucker failed in a political comeback attempt in May 1982 when he was defeated by another comeback kid, Clinton, in the Democratic primary for governor.
		Tucker routinely took out hundreds of thousands of dollars with no down payments, no written applications, no feasibility studies and sometimes no collatera Tucker was not relying on either Madison Guaranty or Capital Management as the principal source of financial backing for his cable business.
		Tucker had no knowledge of or participation in the $825,000 loan But a 1989 memo from former Madison Guaranty President and CEO John Latham to his private attorney, obtained by The Associated Press, suggests Tucker and Mc The memo describes how the FBI questioned Latham about the loan in 1989.
	eserver.org /govt/whitewater.txt (11033 words)

	Arkansas News Bureau - Injustice a 'loose end' for Jim Guy
		Jim Guy's lawyers asked what part of the federal code he was accused of violating.
		Tucker appealed again to 8th Circuit, arguing that he could not possibly be guilty in the first place because you can't be found guilty of violating a law that didn't exist.
		It said Tucker had pled guilty to conspiracy, and that the underlying law was invalid.
	www.arkansasnews.com /archive/2006/03/23/JohnBrummett/335174.html (671 words)

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		Tucker, under the name ofCablevision Management, Incorporated were borrowing $125,000 from David Hale's company and signing on that personally, signing on that individually as Jim Guy Tucker and Betty Tucker, individually.
		Tucker's name does not appear on that particular document, the person who's doing the foreclosing, who's foreclosing on the widow lady, Irene Garner, and her son, Daniel Garner, who is a friend of Jim Guy Tucker, is Arkansas Commercial Realty, Incorporated.
		Tucker said that he was even going to hold back $2,000 to cover the fees that were going to be the maximum estimated amount of attorney's fees and costs.
	nick.assumption.edu /WebVAX/ww/trial/JahncloseP2.html (6219 words)

	Today's THV - KTHV Little Rock
		Tucker, who resigned as governor in 1996 after a conviction in a separate case brought by Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr, had argued the government used the wrong section of the law when it pursued him over a profit he made in the sale of a cable television franchise.
		Tucker had argued that since the restitution had been adjusted downward because of the change in the law, his conviction should be voided because of the change, too.
		Tucker said the government's acknowledgment that the newer law should be used to calculate restitution also meant that Whitewater prosecutors, either deliberately or accidentally, misled grand jurors by using the old law when pursuing his indictment in 1995.
	www.todaysthv.com /news/news.aspx?storyid=25419 (438 words)

	Jim Guy Tucker Governor Little Rock Arkansas Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas History State of Arkansas
		Jim Guy Tucker resigned the governorship due to a conviction in the Whitewater scandal investigation.
		In February of 1998, Jim Guy Tucker avoided a possible five-year prison sentence by pleading guilty to failing to disclose the $3 million dollar sale of a Florida cable television company when he filed for bankruptcy in Texas in the 1980s.
		On May 17, 1999, Tucker was sentenced in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas to pay restitution to the United States in the amount of $1 million.
	www.anythingarkansas.com /arkapedia/pedia/Jim_Guy_Tucker (717 words)

	NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source
		But Tucker added that he hopes Arkansans can understand what he faced at the time as he dealt not only with the pressure of the Whitewater special counsel investigation that had led to his conviction but also the stress of a serious liver ailment.
		Tucker was elected governor in his own right in 1994 with 60 percent of the vote.
		Tucker prepared documents for Huckabee evaluating the status of each state agency and Huckabee gathered his own information by sending out teams of volunteers to interview department heads.
	www.nwanews.com /adg/News/160562/print (1265 words)

	THE LARGEST PAID NON-DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ARKANSAS: EDITORIAL >> No justice for Tucker
		Tucker, his Little Rock lawyer who devised the deal and a businessman were indicted for creating a sham bankruptcy to cheat the government out of $3.7 million in corporate income taxes.
		Tucker resigned from office in 1996 when he was convicted of the fraud in the Hale case and then had a liver transplant.
		Tucker’s panel at the 8th Circuit knew all that when it ruled last week in a brief order that brushed aside all of Tucker’s arguments in a few sentences.
	www.arkansasleader.com /2005/08/editorial-no-justice-for-tucker.html (1107 words)

	Troopers Told Tucker Of Arranging Liaisons For Clinton - March 19, 1998
		Tucker, who succeeded Clinton as Arkansas' governor, said the troopers claimed in 1990 to have arranged meetings with women for his predecessor.
		Tucker would not comment on his grand jury testimony and gave no indication the troopers' story was discussed.
		Tucker was convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from the Whitewater probe and is cooperating with Independent Counsel Ken Starr's investigators.
	edition.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1998/03/19/tucker.api (401 words)

	Court TV Legal Documents: Whitewater -- Tucker Plea
		This agreement allowed former Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker to protect himself against further prosecution by independent counsel Kenneth Starr in return for a guilty plea to charges of defrauding the federal government by filing misleading bankruptcy papers.
		Since the plea, Tucker has appeared before Starr's Little Rock grand jury to give testimony, presumably about his knowledge of Arkansas land deals in which Tucker was involved and which may have included involvement by President Clinton or Hillary Rodham Clinton.
		Tucker said he agreed to the plea in order to save himself a prison term, which he said would have been a "death sentence" due to his ailing health.
	www.courttv.com /archive/legaldocs/government/whitewater/tucker.html (1562 words)

	James Guy Tucker, Jr. » Biographies of Arkansas's Governors » Exhibits » Old State House
		James "Jim" Guy Tucker was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on June 14, 1943.
		While Tucker was in Washington attending the inauguration, acting governor Jerry Jewell seized the opportunity to pardon two convicts and extend executive clemency to three others.
		Tucker resigned from office, only to rescind his resignation on the day Mike Huckabee was to be sworn in as his replacement.
	oldstatehouse.com /exhibits/virtual/governors/the_new_south/tucker.asp (619 words)

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		Tucker admitted in 1998 that he conspired to impede the Internal Revenue Service by hiding the sale of a cable television business.
		Tucker resigned but was spared prison time because of his ill health.
		Tucker replaced Clinton as Arkansas governor after Clinton was elected president in 1992.
	www.comcast.net /data/news/html/2005/08/17/202744.html (353 words)

	ABC News: Court Rejects Last Whitewater Appeal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker had asked the high court to let him withdraw a guilty plea in a tax-conspiracy case that he said was based on an outdated law.
		Tucker was accused of crookedly scheming to reduce his tax liability on the sale of cable television system.
		Tucker argued further that the government used the wrong section of the law when it pursued him.
	abcnews.go.com /Politics/wireStory?id=1747466 (493 words)

	Arkansas Online : Previous Features / Investigations
		Tucker resigned as governor in July 1996, two months after he was convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges along with President Clinton's former business partners, Jim and Susan McDougal.
		Tucker was sentenced to four years' probation with 18 months of that sentence to be served in home detention.
		In a prehearing submission filed Friday in federal court, Tucker's attorneys said there is no proof of the amount of taxes Tucker owes, although no such amount must be proved for an individual to be charged and convicted.
	www.ardemgaz.com /prev/Tuckerplea/bcxtucker15.asp (352 words)

	Arkansas - Former governor Jim Guy Tucker gets penalty reduced
		Tucker said he pleaded guilty to impeding the Internal Revenue Service in the determination of a tax, rather than face trial on the more serious and vague conspiracy charge, largely because he feared prosecutors had a theory that would be difficult to defend.
		Tucker said he was furious that the independent counsel could get away with "indicting a sitting governor — or any citizen — under a law that’s indisputably been repealed."
		Tucker’s sentencing," Reasoner said, referring to a 1999 hearing at which he ordered Tucker to pay $1 million in restitution as the government requested and a pre-sentence report agreed.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1038898/posts (1125 words)

	pryor_tranthree
		Jim Guy Tucker and Ray Thornton in a virtual tie for the second, the run-off spot.
		In the run-off, I think that Jim Guy Tucker has always concluded that Bill Clinton secretly helped you in that run-off and worked against him and I think that is a source of bitterness between those two politicians.
		Pryor: That is an interesting question, because I have a feeling that Bill Clinton and Jim Guy Tucker who were more in the same age category, I was a little bit older, I think that they sort of grew up in Arkansas politics kind of feeling like they may eventually clash.
	www.aetn.org /distinction/html/pryor_tranthree.html (3234 words)

	Arkansas Lieutenant Governor:About the Office
		Jim Guy Tucker assumed the office of governor following Gov. Bill Clinton's election to the presidency of the United States.
		On July 15, 1996, upon the resignation of Governor Jim Guy Tucker, he became governor.
		Jim Guy Tucker (born June 13, 1943) was born in Oklahoma City and raised in Arkansas.
	www.arkansas.gov /ltgov/about_office.html (1129 words)

	Online NewsHour: Shields and Gigot on the Whitewater Verdict -- May 29, 1996
		Following an interview with the forewoman of the jury, Jim Lehrer discusses the political fallout of the verdict with Shields and Gigot and Rex Nelson of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
		JIM LEHRER: Rex Nelson is the political editor of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
		JIM LEHRER: Now outside Arkansas--I won't speak for everybody outside of Arkansas, but this trial was portrayed as being about the Clintons even though it wasn't about the Clintons.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/whitewater/may96/the_verdict_5-29.html (2159 words)

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		The guy thus bought a satellite dish so he could get a raw feed of the signal, and he discovered that new shows were indeed being uplinked to the satellite.
		Tucker tried to claim, right before Lt. Governor Mike Huckabee's swearing-in, that his jail sentence was a "temporary disability" and that he could reassume office should an appeal overturn his conviction.
		Rush notes that Tucker tried to pull off a coup by claiming he was only "disabled" by his jail term and thus could return to office if an appeal of his sentence acquitted him.
	www.asc.upenn.edu /courses/comm575/071696.TXT (10680 words)

	City Pages - Cracks in the Teflon
		This is significant because Tucker was neck-deep in the Castle Grande troubles that are at the heart of Starr's investigation of Jim and Susan McDougal's Madison SandL.
		Tucker cut a very sweet deal by agreeing to plead guilty to conspiracy (engaging in a sham bankruptcy to avoid paying income taxes): He got no more jail time and a promise that he wouldn't be retried if his '96 conviction is overturned on appeal.
		Tucker's prosecution was being handled by Starr's deputy Hickman Ewing, a tough federal prosecutor with a long history of nailing political corruption.
	www.citypages.com /detail.asp?ArticleID=4436 (1286 words)

	American Journalism Review
		Tucker was handed a four-year suspended sentence and was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine, make $294,000 in restitution and perform community service.
		Tucker was indicted on June 7, 1996, 10 months after the series ran.
		Jim Guy Tucker was in the middle of all of this," says Hargrove.
	www.ajr.org /Article.asp?id=3467 (888 words)

	Tucker Pleads Guilty In Whitewater-Related Case - February 20, 1998
		After a brief court appearance, Tucker said he decided to cut a deal to avoid a possible five-year prison sentence.
		Tucker and McDougal lost a fierce legal battle with Starr in 1996 when the independent counsel's prosecutors won convictions.
		The verdict forced Tucker to resign the governorship, and he was sentenced to four years probation.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/20/tucker.plea/index.html (371 words)

	AllPolitics - Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker Almost Refuses To Resign (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The message said Tucker would not resign, as he had promised to do after he was convicted on fraud charges stemming from the Whitewater case.
		Tucker's letter to members of the legislature said that the jury that convicted him of fraud and conspiracy May 28 was tainted and that his conviction should be overturned.
		Tucker's lawyers say a woman juror married a man who had been jailed in a narcotics case and twice denied executive clemency by Tucker.
	www.cnn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ALLPOLITICS/1996/states/AR/news/0716.shtml (387 words)

	Salon Newsreal \| Protected witness
		Tucker, along with Jim and Susan McDougal, the Clintons' partners in their failed Whitewater real estate investment, were convicted by a federal jury in June 1996 on mail fraud and conspiracy charges brought by Starr's office.
		Tucker himself became a cooperating witness in Starr's investigation in February 1998 and confirmed that he had had no contacts with the state prosecutors regarding Hale, according to federal law enforcement officials.
		In a telephone interview with Salon, Tucker repeated his denials that he had had any role in the state case: "My policy was to stay as far away from the insurance investigation as possible...
	www.salon.com /news/1998/09/cov_10newsa.html (2828 words)

	SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
		Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker was convicted of one count of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy.
		I'm not surprised Jim McDougal was convicted, though I'm surprised it was across the board.
		Tucker was convicted in relation to the Castle Grande matter, and Hillary Clinton's name has come up here, although the Pillsbury report said it was most unlikely she was involved in any wrongdoing.
	www.salon.com /news/news960528.html (1474 words)

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