Whitewater investigation finally ends (CNN/AP)

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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- The seven-year, $70 million Whitewater investigation that toppled an Arkansas governor and dogged Bill Clinton for most of his presidency officially drew to a close Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the last remaining appeal.

Former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker had asked the high court to let him withdraw a guilty plea in a tax-conspiracy case that he said was based on an outdated law. Tucker was accused of crookedly scheming to reduce his tax liability on the sale of a cable television system.
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"It's disappointing that there will never be a report in a court of law as to how this independent counsel, with all its resources and purported brilliance, managed to indict a citizen by use of a repealed statute," Tucker said Monday.

The appeal was the lone remnant of the Clinton-era Whitewater probe, and the cable television case had nothing to do with the Arkansas land development that gave the investigation its name. Starr won permission from then-Attorney General Janet Reno to broaden the investigation when Tucker's name came up in the business loan case.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/20/scotus.whitewater.tucker.ap/index.html

Well, now DOJ should have time free to pursue other things ... anything out there need scrutiny?

[Ignacio Upton]

1. In other news, General Franco is still dead

nt

[LiberalinNC]

2. Unfuckingbelievable!!!! Nothing was ever proven w/ these ridiculous

law suits/investigations!

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Oops, duped a thread in LBN (link)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2178420&mesg_id=2178420

[annabanana]

4. Sweet Jesus! if this doesn't shine big friggen spotlights

on WTF is going on in this country I don't know what would....

[Lefty48197]

5. Did they ever figure out if Monica blew the President?

Seeing as how the "Whitewater investigation" morphed into the BJ investigation.