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Article: CLINTON PADS DEFENSE FUND BY $2 MILLION.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- August 13, 1998
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Byline: Don Van Natta Jr. The New York Times
President Clinton's new legal defense fund has raised in excess of $2 million in just six months, enriched by a new campaign that largely blamed Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr for the first couple's financial plight, according to several supporters briefed in recent days on the fund's progress.
The Clinton Legal Expense Trust has exceeded its managers' most optimistic expectations, mainly through the direct-mail effort highlighting Starr's inquiry of the president and by the increased annual limit of $10,000 per individual.
The $2 million-plus far outstrips the $1.3 million raised over a ...