Gov't Won't Pay (Susan) McDougal's Legal Bills

[kskiska]

WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court rejected Susan McDougal's request to have the government pay her legal bills stemming from the special counsel's investigation of President Clinton.

A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said McDougal could not receive $345,412 from the government for legal bills in connection with her indictment by then-special counsel Kenneth Starr on charges of obstructing the probe. A jury acquitted McDougal of one count and deadlocked on two others, which were later dismissed.

"Congress did not say that fee awards are available to an individual who is indicted but acquitted," the court said. "Congress explicitly said that the court may award fees only 'if no indictment is brought against such individual ... '"

McDougal was indicted for refusing to testify before a grand jury about Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, now a U.S. senator. The Clintons and McDougal were business partners in the Whitewater land deal in Arkansas. McDougal said at the time she feared that Starr would charge her with perjury unless she falsely implicated the Clintons.

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[trumad]

1. Oh but they'll pay Linda Tripp 500 grand for violating her privacy...

Fuckers!

[Democrats unite]

3. You beat me too it!

eom

[dusty64]

6. My thoughts exactly.

Didn't they also just deny lewinsky as well?

[peacetalksforall]

2. McDougal was a victim of the cabal - our illustrious leaders - and good

christians.

She was a player in the character assassination of a President. Her life was interrupted. The entire attempt was a national travesty.

We have a regime who is trying to rob and poison us - deny us and quiet us.

And they went after her for a $28,000 Whitewater deal - AFTER, repeat AFTER, government investigations had already found the Clintons clean.

How many reasons do they give us to despise them?

[izzie]

4. Fair and balanced? Or is that Shock and squawk?

She is not in the right party so why did she waste her time.GOP do not understand people standing up for things they think right.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Unbelievable the double-standard. They reimbursed Tripp and screwed

over anyone who was associated with the Clintons. The witchhunt continues.

[ldf]

7. i would gladly donate

to help pay off susan's legal bills.

after all, isn't that the way the republicans do it?

susan should not have to suffer for being a true patriotic american.

[0007]

9. I would also help with a donation for Susan's legal bills.

After all the freepers paid Linda Tripp bills on her way for the big pay off.

[dbt]

8. Home Kick!

Ms McDougal is a true blue Southern hardass in the finest sense of the word. You can stand her up at the gates of Hell and she won't back down!

:bounce:
dbt

[Dirty Hippie]

10. Read her book

It is excellent and buying it might help her with those bills.