David Hale (Whitewater)

David Hale is a former Arkansas municipal judge and former Arkansas banker. He alleged the charges that resulted in the Whitewater scandal trials.

For other people with the same name, see David Hale (disambiguation).

Biography

He worked with Jim McDougal on $3 million in loans from a lending company he ran. He pleaded guilty and went to jail for conspiring to defraud the Small Business Administration in looting the funds from a dummy business that he had established.[1] He was sentenced to two years and four months in prison for fraud unrelated to the Whitewater deal. As part of his guilty plea for looting money from an insurance company, he provided the allegations for the Whitewater scandal and testimony for its investigators.[2]

He testified in the trial of Jim and Susan McDougal in 1989 when the Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan originally failed, and at the time, he never mentioned Clinton in a detailed account of the $300,000 loan.[3] It was only when Hale came under indictment on other charges that he alleged any crime by Clinton.

Hale testified in U.S. District Court that (then) Governor Bill Clinton pressured him to make a fraudulent $300,000 loan for him not be named in the loan. On June 23, 1994, Eugene Fitzhugh pleaded guilty to trying to bribe Hale.

See also

References
  1. "First Trial for Whitewater Prosecutor". The New York Times. 1994-06-10. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  2. "Caught in the Whitewater Net". CBS News. 1998-05-19. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  3. Susan Schmidt (1996-04-03). "Clinton Discussed Loan, Hale Testifies". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-08-20.


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