HILLARY CLINTON COULD BE INDICTED; STARR'S AIDE RAISES POSSIBILITY IN COURT.Byline: Laura Meckler Associated Press A Whitewater prosecutor told an appeals court that first lady Hillary Rodham Rodham is an English surname which may refer to a number of persons or places. People Family of Hillary Rodham Clinton
In the past, Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr has stopped short of saying that he had evidence sufficient to indict in·dict tr.v. in·dict·ed, in·dict·ing, in·dicts 1. To accuse of wrongdoing; charge: a book that indicts modern values. 2. the first lady. But during a closed-door session in a federal appeals court in St. Louis, a Starr deputy said an indictment was possible, according to an audio tape of the purported discussion obtained by ABC News. ``We certainly are investigating individuals, and those individuals - including Mrs. Clinton - could be indicted,'' Deputy Independent Counsel John Bates told the court. Hillary Clinton's attorney, David Kendall, said Saturday he could not comment on the contents of a sealed transcript. But he said: ``To say Mrs. Clinton is the subject of investigation is obvious, but to imply there is any real basis for it is ridiculous.'' ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. did not say how it obtained the tape recording, a portion of which it played in its Saturday evening newscast. Any kind of recording except by court stenographers is barred in all federal courts. The network said Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. made the comment while in court to obtain notes involving Hillary Clinton's Whitewater conversations with government lawyers. Overruling o·ver·rule tr.v. o·ver·ruled, o·ver·rul·ing, o·ver·rules 1. a. To disallow the action or arguments of, especially by virtue of higher authority: the first lady's claim that the conversations are protected by attorney-client privilege, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in St. Louis ruled that the notes must be turned over to a federal grand jury. |
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