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Susan McDougal
Susan Carol McDougal (née Henley; born June 27, 1955) is an American real estate investor who served prison time as a result of the Whitewater controversy.
Her refusal to answer "three questions" for a grand jury, on whether President Bill Clinton lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial, led her to receive a jail sentence of 18 months for contempt of court. That made up most of the total 22 months she spent incarcerated.
She received a full pardon from Clinton in the final hours of his presidency in January 2001.
McDougal was born as Susan Carol Henley in Heidelberg, West Germany, the daughter of James B. Henley and Laurette (Mathieu) Henley. In 1976, Susan married Jim McDougal. In the 1980s, the McDougals were partners with Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton in the failed Whitewater controversy real estate venture.
McDougal separated from her husband in the late 1980s and moved to Los Angeles. There, from 1989 to 1992, she worked as a personal assistant to former actress Nancy Kovack, the wife of conductor Zubin Mehta. In late 1993, McDougal was charged with embezzling money from the Mehtas and began preparing her defense against the charges. After being released from prison in the Whitewater matter, her embezzlement trial in California began. In 1998, McDougal was acquitted on all 12 counts. A suit in 1999 against Kovack for malicious prosecution was settled out of court.
On August 5, 1994, Kenneth Starr became Independent Counsel and would prosecute McDougal and other Whitewater participants. Her federal trial began in 1996, in which the government's star witness, Arkansas banker and former municipal judge David Hale, claimed that President Bill Clinton had discussed an illegal $300,000 loan with him and McDougal years earlier, while Clinton was Governor of Arkansas. Hale was himself under investigation for having defrauded the SBA out of $3.2 million. He also unsuccessfully sought to have his brother Milas Hale corroborate his testimony against Clinton.
McDougal was convicted of her role in the Whitewater case on May 28, 1996, and was sentenced to spend two years in prison for four counts of fraud and conspiracy, but her prison term did not begin until March 7, 1998, as there were other court proceedings. Following her ex-husband James (Jim) B. McDougal's conviction but prior to his sentencing, he began to co-operate with the Office of Independent Counsel and tried to persuade her to do likewise to avoid a prison sentence.
Susan's defense lawyer, Mark Geragos, stated that her ex-husband told her that Deputy Independent Counsel W. Hickman Ewing Jr. would be able to "get Clinton with a sex charge" before the 1996 election if she agreed to lie and say she had had an affair with Clinton. She has always denied ever having had an affair with Clinton.
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Susan McDougal
Susan Carol McDougal (née Henley; born June 27, 1955) is an American real estate investor who served prison time as a result of the Whitewater controversy.
Her refusal to answer "three questions" for a grand jury, on whether President Bill Clinton lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial, led her to receive a jail sentence of 18 months for contempt of court. That made up most of the total 22 months she spent incarcerated.
She received a full pardon from Clinton in the final hours of his presidency in January 2001.
McDougal was born as Susan Carol Henley in Heidelberg, West Germany, the daughter of James B. Henley and Laurette (Mathieu) Henley. In 1976, Susan married Jim McDougal. In the 1980s, the McDougals were partners with Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton in the failed Whitewater controversy real estate venture.
McDougal separated from her husband in the late 1980s and moved to Los Angeles. There, from 1989 to 1992, she worked as a personal assistant to former actress Nancy Kovack, the wife of conductor Zubin Mehta. In late 1993, McDougal was charged with embezzling money from the Mehtas and began preparing her defense against the charges. After being released from prison in the Whitewater matter, her embezzlement trial in California began. In 1998, McDougal was acquitted on all 12 counts. A suit in 1999 against Kovack for malicious prosecution was settled out of court.
On August 5, 1994, Kenneth Starr became Independent Counsel and would prosecute McDougal and other Whitewater participants. Her federal trial began in 1996, in which the government's star witness, Arkansas banker and former municipal judge David Hale, claimed that President Bill Clinton had discussed an illegal $300,000 loan with him and McDougal years earlier, while Clinton was Governor of Arkansas. Hale was himself under investigation for having defrauded the SBA out of $3.2 million. He also unsuccessfully sought to have his brother Milas Hale corroborate his testimony against Clinton.
McDougal was convicted of her role in the Whitewater case on May 28, 1996, and was sentenced to spend two years in prison for four counts of fraud and conspiracy, but her prison term did not begin until March 7, 1998, as there were other court proceedings. Following her ex-husband James (Jim) B. McDougal's conviction but prior to his sentencing, he began to co-operate with the Office of Independent Counsel and tried to persuade her to do likewise to avoid a prison sentence.
Susan's defense lawyer, Mark Geragos, stated that her ex-husband told her that Deputy Independent Counsel W. Hickman Ewing Jr. would be able to "get Clinton with a sex charge" before the 1996 election if she agreed to lie and say she had had an affair with Clinton. She has always denied ever having had an affair with Clinton.
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