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Monday, Dec. 18, 2000 11:45 a.m. EST
Friend of Jim McDougal Presses Wrongful Death Claim
A close friend of key Whitewater witness James McDougal has filed
a $20 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Federal Medical
Center in Fort Worth, Texas, where McDougal collapsed and died of
a heart attack two years ago.
Claudia Riley first filed the claim on March 8, 2000, the second
anniversary of McDougal's death, arguing that it was brought on
by prison officials who threw him in solitary confinement after
confiscating his heart and blood pressure medication.
McDougal's mistreatment first came to light when, shortly after
his death, three fellow inmates wrote to his biographer, Curtis
Wilkie, and complained that prison guards had neglected him.
According to their accounts, McDougal was denied medical
attention for hours before he died, despite repeated complaints
of chest pain and dizziness and direct requests for his heart
medicine.
One inmate told Wilkie that guards sat playing cards just 10 feet
away as the key Whitewater witness died.
Wilkie shared the inmate accounts with NewsMax.com's Carl
Limbacher, then with the Washington Weekly, where they were first
reported in June 1998. (See: Jim McDougal Denied Heart Medicine
Before Death, Inmates Charge.)
Riley, along with her late husband, Bob, a former lieutenant
governor of Arkansas, were decades-old friends of the one-time
business partner to Bill and Hillary Clinton. She was especially
close to Susan McDougal, who shared a room with Riley during her
1996 Whitewater trial.
At the time of his death McDougal was serving a three-0year
sentence, which had been reduced because of his cooperation with
independent counsel Ken Starr.
Before implicating President Clinton in Whitewater crimes, Jim
McDougal lived in a trailer on the Rileys' Arkadelphia, Ark.,
property. McDougal considered Mr. Riley "a benevolent older
brother," according to his autobiography.
"The Rileys made me part of their family," he wrote.
Still, despite their close friendship, U.S. District Judge John
McBryde dismissed Riley's wrongful death claim on Friday,
questioning whether she had the standing to file the claim in the
first place. The dismissal prompted the first media coverage of
the lawsuit, by the Associated Press.
Riley's lawyers, Warren Gotcher and Sean McKeating, have till
Wednesday to amend and refile the wrongful death claim.
McDougal's ex-wife Susan told NewsMax.com in July that she
blamed the Office of Independent Counsel for neglecting her
husband while he was incarcerated.
"They couldn't have cared less," she said. "None of Jim
McDougal's fantasies or story-weaving worked out for them. ...
They had Monica and the whole sex thing; Jim McDougal was 'so
what,' ... When Jim became useless, he got put in solitary
confinement and died on the cold cement floor without his
medicine, calling for help and asking the independent counsel to
help him."
It isn't clear if the former Mrs. McDougal is a party to Riley's
suit or whether she will testify on her behalf. Lawyers for
McDougal and Riley could not be reached by press time.
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