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Article: Altman, White House Discussed Recusal
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- The Washington Post
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- March 23, 1994
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Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger C. Altman consulted White House
officials in earlyFebruary about whether he should remove himself
from supervising a politically sensitive federal investigation of
Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan but encountered White House
resistance to that step, according to administration officials and
other sources.
White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, who has since resigned,
expressed doubt that Altman needed to recuse himself and concern
about who would oversee the case if Altman, a political appointee
serving as acting head of the Resolution Trust Corp., did step down,
the sources said. One of the areas under review by the RTC, the
agency overseeing the thrift ...