David Hale (Whitewater)

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

David Hale is a former Arkansas municipal judge, a former Arkansas banker, and a self proclaimed Bill Clinton political supporter—though he never made substantial contributions to any of his campaigns. He alleged the charges that resulted in the Whitewater scandal trials. He worked with Jim McDougal on $3 million in loans from a lending company he ran. He pled guilty and went to jail for conspiring to defraud the Small Business Administration in looting the funds from a dummy business he 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 in 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 never mentioned Clinton in a detailed account of the $300,000 loan at that time .^[3] It was not until Hale came under Indictment on other charges that he alleged any crime by Clinton.

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

See also

• Whitewater (controversy)
• Floyd Brown
• David Bossie
• James D. Johnson

References

1. ^ "First Trial for Whitewater Prosecutor". The New York Times. 1994-06-10. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEFD8123DF933A15755C0A962958260. Retrieved 2008-08-20. 
2. ^ "Caught in the Whitewater Net". CBS News. 1998-05-19. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/05/19/archive/main9813.shtml. Retrieved 2008-08-20. 
3. ^ Susan Schmidt (1996-04-03). "Clinton Discussed Loan, Hale Testifies". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/stories/wwtr960403.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-20. 

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