Eugene C. Fitzhugh (May 11, 1926 – August 21, 2007)Eugene C. Fitzhugh
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Little Rock, Arkansas (The Little Rock, The "Little Rock") , government_type = council-manager government, Council-manager , leader_title = List of mayors of Little Rock, Arkansas, Mayor , leader_name = Frank Scott Jr. , leader_ ...

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and businessman. On June 23, 1994, he pleaded guilty to trying to bribe David Hale. In exchange for his bribery plea, he was sentenced to 28 months, and prosecutors dropped charges accusing him of conspiring to defraud the

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. He also received one year of probation, a $3,000.00 fine and lost his law license. The guilty plea was part of

Kenneth Starr Kenneth Winston Starr (July 21, 1946 – September 13, 2022) was an American lawyer and judge who authored the Starr Report, which led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton. He headed an investigation of members of the Clinton administration, kno ...

's probe into what is known as the Whitewater investigation and report. He came into front page national news as a result of the Whitewater investigations. He was sentenced with his colleague Charles Matthews. David Hale is a former Arkansas municipal judge, a former Arkansas banker and a witness in the

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scandal trials.

References

* CBS News, Caught In The Whitewater Net, Washington, May 19, 1998 * The NY Times, First Trial for Whitewater Prosecutor, June 20, 1994
USA Today obituary

External links

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