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Tuesday July 9 1996
Issue 423

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Whitewater banker 'has more to tell'
By Stephen Robinson in Washington

PRESIDENT Clinton's convicted Whitewater business partner, angered by Hillary Clinton's cold indifference to his plight, is threatening to disclose damaging information about the Clintons' dealings in Arkansas in exchange for leniency from prosecutors.

Jim McDougal, who faces up to 80 years in prison after being found guilty on multiple fraud charges related to the Whitewater investments and a bank he owned in Little Rock, has previously maintained that Mr and Mrs Clinton did nothing illegal. He and his ex-wife Susan were equal partners with the Clintons in the failed Whitewater land company. Mr Clinton testified as a defence witness in his trial via a video camera in the White House, but the jury believed the prosecution.

Mr McDougal, 55, told The New Yorker he was "holding back" information which could be independently verified and used when all other options had been exhausted. Mr McDougal's loyalty to his business partners and friends appears to have been shaken in April when Mrs Clinton snubbed him and his ex-wife on the day they went to Washington to watch the president give his videotaped testimony.

Mrs Clinton did not appear to greet the McDougals, two old friends from Arkansas both facing serious criminal charges. "There was not one word of sympathy or friendship toward me or Susan," Mr McDougal complained. "There's no reason to do anything for the Clintons, for they're not going to do a damn thing for us."



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