-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! March 14, 2001, 8:23PM Clinton legal debts could still be paid by taxpayers Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., owe lawyers nearly $4 million, and an official of the former first family's legal defense fund said Wednesday he is uncertain who will pay the bill: the Clintons, financial donors or the taxpayers. The fund announced that it and a previous legal defense fund had paid $7.4 million of the Clintons' $11.3 million in legal expenses -- leaving a balance of $3.9 million. "We will meet with the former president and his staff" soon on the matter, said Anthony Essaye, the defense fund's executive director. On the last full day of his presidency, Clinton agreed not to seek taxpayer reimbursement of legal fees for the scandal involving former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The promise did not extend to the Whitewater criminal investigation, which lasted until September. Essaye said the fund does not have a breakdown of which unpaid fees relate to the Lewinsky matter and to Whitewater. One million dollars of the unpaid legal fees are in connection with the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit filed against the former president, leaving nearly $3 million for Whitewater and the Lewinsky investigations. Donations have slowed substantially, to $750,000 for the last six months of last year. At the height of the Lewinsky investigation in the second half of 1998, the fund raised $2.3 million. There were few big donors recently, just eight people who gave $10,000 each, the maximum donation allowed by the fund. If the Clintons decide to seek taxpayer reimbursement for Whitewater expenses, they would do so by filing an application with the federal appeals court that appointed the independent counsels who investigated the Clintons. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
