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Article: Clinton rocked by Whitewater trial verdict
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 29, 1996
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President Clinton's hopes of putting the Whitewater affair
behind him took a major blow last night as a Little Rock jury
delivered an overwhelming majority of guilty verdicts in the first
court trial arising from the case, in which he had personally
testified on behalf of one of the three defendants.
After almost eight days of deliberation, the jury found former
Arkansas businessman Jim McDougal, the President's original partner
in the ill- fated Whitewater real estate venture, guilty on 18 of
19 counts in a $3 million fraud and embezzlement case dating back
to the mid and late 1980s.
Jim Guy Tucker, Mr Clinton's successor as Governor, was found
guilty on two out of seven counts while - most ...