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  Whitewater (controversy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Whitewater Controversy (also called the Whitewater scandal or simply Whitewater) was an American political controversy concerning the allegedly illegal real estate dealings of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates in the Whitewater Development Agency during the 1970s and 1980s.
Whitewater was seen by Democrats as a Republican led investigation to pursue Clinton for political reasons at a cost of $80 million dollars to the public.
In August 1994 Kenneth Starr was appointed by a three-judge panel to continue the Whitewater investigation, replacing Robert B. Fiske, who had been specially appointed by the Attorney General prior to the re-enactment of the Independent Counsel law.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Whitewater Scandal
Whitewater is formed in a rapid, when a river's gradient drops enough to form a bubbly, or aerated and unstable current; the frothy water appears white.
Whitewater kayaks differ from sea kayaks and recreational kayaks in that they are specialized to deal with moving water better.
There is a 28 m³/s artificial whitewater course on the Trent at Holme Pierrepont in Nottingham (at the National Watersports Centre), a 5 m³/s course on the Tees in Teesside, and smaller courses on the Nene at Northampton, and at Cardington.
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 104 Hearings: Senate Committee Meetings by Date (1996)
WHITEWATER Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters: Committee resumed hearings to examine issues relative to the Whitewater Development Corporation, receiving testimony from Beverly Bassett Schaeffer, William Brady, and Charles Handley, all on behalf of the Arkansas Securities Department, Little Rock.
WHITEWATER Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters: Committee resumed hearings to examine issues relative to the Whitewater Development Corporation, receiving testimony from Patricia Black, Associate Inspector General for Inspections and Legal Support, and Steven Switzer, Deputy Inspector General for Audit, both of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
WHITEWATER Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters: On Thursday, February 22, committee resumed hearings to examine issues relative to the Whitewater Development Corporation, receiving testimony from Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of White House Staff.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Whitewater Development Corporation
A corporation under investigation related to Bill Clinton's White Water scandal.
In 1993 both Clintons came under scrutiny during an investigation that questioned the couple’s 1978 investment in a failed real estate venture called the Whitewater Development Corporation and their connection to a bankrupt savings and loan association.
In 1996 Hillary Rodham Clinton was called to testify before a grand jury investigating the Whitewater Affair, as these financial dealings came to be known.
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 AllPolitics - Whitewater - Arkansas Roots
With developer Jim McDougal and his wife Susan, both longtime friends, they formed the Whitewater Development Corporation to build on lots near the town of Flippin.
He believed that Whitewater needed a model home to attract buyers, and he loaned her $30,000 from his small bank to build, own and ultimately sell a three-bedroom, ranch-style unit.
Under increasing pressure from the media on Whitewater, Hillary Clinton called a dramatic press conference in the East Wing of the White House in April 1994.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1997/gen/resources/infocus/whitewater/ak.roots.html   (1584 words)

  
 Whitewater Explained - Part 1
In the Whitewater case, it was 230 acres of land along the White River for about $90,000.
Finally, your development corporation declares bankruptcy, and the bank has to eat your loans because the money is all gone, and since the record-keeping is so poor, nobody knows where it went.
Whitewater was just the first of a series, like a pilot for a sitcom.
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And it was not long after that the financial burden of Whitewater Development Corporation apparently shifted from the McDougals and the Clintons to the McDougals and Madison Guaranty.
The press reports of the entire Whitewater Development affair raise a series of very troubling questions about the funding of the investment, the management of the investment and the tax treatment of the investment -- just to name a few.
In fact the entire saga of Whitewater is built on the foundation that the Clinton's personal interest always supersedes the interests of, first, the State of Arkansas and now the nation's interest.
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 CHAPTER 2
First, they were the corporate partners of the Whitewater Estates, and they could not legally invest money in the new projects.
Since Hillary was not a corporate officer, she volunteered to be the center of this ingenious scheme.
A year after the Whitewater Development Corporation was formed and just months after Clinton was elected governor of Arkansas in 1979, Jim McDougal formed another bank: Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan.
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 Whitewater Investigations and Prosecutions to the Present Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Whitewater Investigations and Prosecutions to the Present Day
McDougal appeared before a federal grand jury pursuant to a subpoena and an immunity order of Judge Susan Webber Wright of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
McDougal was a business partner in Whitewater Development Corporation and one of the major shareholders of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association, two of the entities named in the original order appointing the Independent Counsel, and she thus would be expected to possess information highly relevant to the investigation.
www.newsmax.com /articles/?a=2000/9/20/80503   (3477 words)

  
 Whitewater (controversy)
The Whitewater Controversy (also called the Whitewater scandal or simply Whitewater) was an American political scandal regarding allegedly improper real estate dealings by Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates in the Whitewater Development Agency in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Whitewater rafting on the Youghiogheny, Cheat, and Gauley Rivers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia.
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 Whitewater scandal - dKosopedia
The Whitewater scandal was an American political scandal which developed in President Bill Clinton's first term as president, after the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster.
At President Clinton's request, a special prosecutor was appointed in 1994 by the Department of Justice to investigate the legality of Whitewater transactions.
When the Whitewater scandal first surfaced, Attorney General Janet Reno appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the matter.
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 The Special Committee's Whitewater Report
Clinton appeared knowledgeable about the Whitewater real estate development and the Whitewater loan, and, in fact, she remarked on the sharp rise in the interest rate on the loan.159 Mr.
Because there was real concern about renewing the Whitewater loan without receiving current financial statements, 1st Ozark conditioned the loan extension on, among other things, the provision of financial statements by the Clintons and McDougals.228 Vernon Dewey believed that 1st Ozark should have required repayment of the loan and shared his concern with Ron Proctor.
Indeed, the only available evidence, the $2,900 deposit slip and the entries on Whitewater's books, indicates that the $2,400 payment was a loan to the corporation, which the corporation had an obligation to repay, and not an interest payment.
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 Whitewater (controversy) in TutorGig Encyclopedia
The 'Whitewater Controversy' (also called the 'Whitewater scandal' or simply 'Whitewater') was a American political story regarding real estate dealings by Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates in the Whitewater Development Agency in the 1970s and 1980s.
A New York Times article was published during the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign that Clinton and his wife had invested in and lost money in the Whitewater development.
In August 1994 Starr was appointed by a three-judge panel to continue the Whitewater investigation, replacing Robert B. Fiske, who had been specially appointed by the Attorney General prior to the re-enactment of the Independent Counsel law.
www.tutorgig.com /ed/Whitewater_scandal   (684 words)

  
 MWPDC Home Page
The proposed development is a multi-use 'whitewater park'.
Over a dozen similar whitewater courses have been built in the U.S. and abroad, but this locale is in many ways unique.
Don Sorenson, former president of the American Canoe Association describes it as "having the potential to be one of the world's finest whitewater courses".
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 The Unknown and Deadly Side of the Whitewater Scandal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Many foreign observers feel the Whitewater coverup is the biggest one in the world in fifty or sixty years.
Whitewater was only a pretext set up by Jim McDougal and the Clintons to milk millions of dollars from the SBA, banks, Arkansas Development Finance Authority, and Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan (which was later bailed out by us taxpayers to the tune of $65 million).
Using Whitewater as a prop, Bill and his partner Jim McDougal milked, by my rough estimate several million dollars from the SBA and at least five or six banks and S&Ls, starting with the Bank of Kingston.
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 Online NewsHour: Clinton Testifies in Whitewater Case -- May 8, 1996
The McDougals and Tucker are on trial in a case brought by Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr.
And so since he is not on trial here, this is really probably as close as he'll come to proving his innocence, and I'm sure the people in the White House are very happy tonight that the President was not tripped up by the independent counsel who questioned him.
Whitewater, as you recall, is the investment that the Clintons and the McDougals had together in a resort development up in the Ozarks, and--
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/whitewater/may96/clinton_testifies_5-9.html   (1383 words)

  
 Whitewater: Case Closed -- 09/20/2000
The government presented evidence at trial that both checks were used to the benefit of Whitewater Development.
Consequently, the evidence was, in the judgment of this Office, insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that his testimony regarding the alleged loan was knowingly false.
This Office also investigated whether President Clinton gave knowingly false testimony when he testified at the same trial that he did not know of a $300,000 loan made by CMS to Susan McDougal in April 1986 that benefitted Whitewater Development and that was the subject of Susan McDougal's 1996 convictions for fraud.
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 Did Clinton Counsel Take Part in Cleanup of Whitewater Files?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
The testimony has taken on increased credibility in light of the release last month of Kennedy's notes of a Washington meeting in the fall of 1993 that some have interpreted as suggesting a need to "vacuum" or clean up such files.
Kennedy's ex-wife, Gail, told Starr's Washington grand jurors in early 1995 that during the time when Whitewater first became prominent in the news, her husband, then associate White House counsel, had taken an unusual trip home from Washington to Little Rock, according to a source familiar with Starr's probe.
If prosecutors can prove that files were destroyed or concealed from investigators as a criminal probe was about to begin, those who participated could be charged with obstruction of justice.
www.newsmax.com /articles/?a=1996/1/09/172743   (864 words)

  
 THE MISSISSIPPI WHITEWATER PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
The whitewater channel would be used for recreational as well as competitive purposes and would be appropriate for all skill levels of boaters.
The channel would also be used to teach whitewater safety to the public and provide a training site for search and rescue and emergency services organizations.
It would also provide the opportunity of an outdoor experience for inner-city youth and be a crossroads for people from all over the state to experience the challenge and exhilaration of whitewater rafting and boating.
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 frontline: once upon a time in arkansas: Friends & Relationships
Rose billing records which were taken from the firm in 1992, were sought unsuccessfully by Whitewater investigators, and then mysteriously reappeared in the White House in 1996.
In 1994 Hubbell met with disgrace unrelated to Whitewater, pleading guilty to fraud and income tax evasion for having defrauded the Rose firm and its clients of $390,000.
And,in May 1998, the Federal Whitewater grand jury in Arkansas indicted Susan McDougal on charges of criminal contempt and obstruction of justice after repeatedly refusing to answer questions about the Clintons.
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 CNN - Cryptic Whitewater notes galvanize GOP - Dec 22, 1995
Republican sources were also pointing to several references to first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton which they said might show that she had closer ties to Whitewater activities than she has indicated.
Another point Republicans seized upon was an apparent agenda listed at the top of the notes that includes the line, "try to find out what's going on in investigation." They say that this means White House lawyers were improperly directed to get privileged information on the president's behalf.
This episode was not unlike most chapters in the Whitewater saga.
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 Whitewater Development Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Whitewater Development Corporation was a failed business venture of James and Susan McDougal with Bill and Hillary Clinton.
The business was incorporated on June 18, 1979, with the purpose of developing vacation properties on 230 acres (930,000 m²) of land along the White River near Flippin, Arkansas.
This page was last modified 23:46, 5 September 2006.
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 Whitewater Scandal | Clinton Scandal | Whitewater Development Corporation Controversy | Questia.com Online Library
From Watergate to Whitewater: The Public Integrity War (Chap.
Whitewater Watergate by Timothy W. Maier, Jennifer...fiercely to try to stay afloat amid the cascades of the Whitewater affair.
War without End: Cultural Conflict and the Struggle for America's Political Future (discussion of the Whitewater scandal begins on p.
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 Court TV Library
On May 17, 1995, the United States Senate, by a vote of 96-3, adopted Senate Resolution 120, which established the Special Committee to Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters (hereinafter the "Special Committee"), to be administered by the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (the "Banking Committee").
Clinton's investment in Whitewater Development Corporation ("Whitewater") along with James and Susan McDougal, Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association ("Madison Guaranty"), and related matters.
These three parts are interrelated because the entire story of Whitewater is not simply the sum of its parts.
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Now that the Whitewater scandal is over ten years old, it may bear recapping.
The New York Times published an article linking the Clintons with the Whitewater Development Corporation and the failed Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan - and the story transformed a local Arkansas question into a national issue.
The Whitewater scandal has plagued Bill Clinton and obsessed pundits since minute one of his presidency.
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 AllPolitics - President Bill Clinton's Whitewater Testimony - May 9, 1996
A: They were Whitewater Development obligations if Whitewater Development had the money to pay them.
I asked you concerning the status of Whitewater Development Corporation, and as far as the trust and faith that you put in Mr.
Q: Well, now, Government's Exhibit 76, sir, is dated May 30th, 1985, and you still had the obligations reflected in the government's exhibits concerning the renewal of the loan which you signed in the fall of 1985.
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The Clintons became partners with the McDougals in the Whitewater Development Corporation.
When the securities commissioner refused to comply with her plan to issue preferred stock in order to help the company get out of financial trouble, he was replaced by a Clinton appointee, who gladly cooperated.
In a curious postscript to the Whitewater scandal, on July 20, 1993, Vince Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy, Virginia.
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