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The Whitewater controversy, Whitewater scandal, Whitewatergate, or simply Whitewater, was an American political controversy during the 1990s. It began with an investigation into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal , in the Whitewater Development Corporation.
Castle Grande was a real estate development in Arkansas about 10 miles south of Little Rock. It came into National news as a result of the Whitewater investigations. The project was a 1,050-acre (4.2 km 2) lot where Jim McDougal hoped to build a microbrewery, shopping center, a trailer park and other future projects in 1985.
John Latham became part of Kenneth Starr's investigation into the Whitewater land deal. John Latham attempted to hide a $500,000 insider loan from federal bank examiners, with a nonrecourse debt that had been made to take a warehouse not on Madison's books. He was jailed for six months for bank fraud.
It began with an investigation into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation. This failed business venture was incorporated in 1979 with the purpose of developing vacation properties on land along the White River near Flippin, Arkansas.
Sometimes a subtitle tells you quite a lot about a book. The one for Peter Schweizer's Throw Them All Out reads: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and ...
Robert W. Palmer is a former Madison Guaranty land appraiser. He pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges related to Whitewater and was later pardoned by President Bill Clinton . As a land appraiser he admitted to conspiring with Jim McDougal and others with Madison Guaranty savings association.
The Senate Whitewater Committee, officially the Special Committee to Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters, was a special committee convened by the United States Senate during the Clinton administration to investigate the Whitewater controversy.
SCITUATE – A councilman who negotiated a 10-year tax deal for the town with the Providence Water Supply Board approached the agency a year later, asking that it pay him $300,000 for a ...