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Article: White House official doesn't know lawyers' scandal role.
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 13, 1998
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The chief White House administrator said yesterday that she does not know whether White House lawyers are handling personal legal chores for the first family.
"I do not know specifically," Ada Posey, director of administration for the White House, told a House panel probing reports that President Clinton is misusing tax dollars by having administration lawyers do legal work in the Whitewater and Lewinsky scandals.
The unprecedented squad of 34 White House lawyers and associates is barred by law from handling personal legal affairs for the first family, according to the Justice Department.
Miss Posey, who is in charge of the White House ...