WHITE HOUSE SUBPOENAED FOR RIADY-LINKED DOCUMENTS.

Byline: Associated Press 

Probing payments to Whitewater figure Webster Hubbell, prosecutors have subpoenaed the White House for all documents about a wealthy Indonesian family which hired the longtime friend of the Clintons, administration officials disclosed Tuesday.

White House counsel Chuck Ruff sent a memo dated March 5 to all presidential aides saying that the subpoena seeks all documents relating to 14 people and six companies with ties to the Riady family of Indonesia.

Among those named in Ruff's memo were the Lippo Insurance Group, Steven Riady and Little Rock, Ark., businessmen Mark Grobmyer and Joe Giroir.

The subpoena was issued Jan. 30. Ruff's memo is the final step in ensuring that everyone in the White House complies with the subpoena, an administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Tuesday.

``This is all about the money to Hubbell,'' said a lawyer familiar with the Whitewater investigation and with the subpoena.

Hubbell's vague answers to many central questions in the Whitewater investigation over the past two years have frustrated investigators' efforts to learn about the role of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in the business dealings.

Hubbell, associate attorney general the first year of Clinton's presidency, and Hillary Clinton were law partners in the mid-1980s when their firm was representing the failing savings and loan at the center of the Whitewater investigation.