The key witness against President Clinton in Starr's Whitewater investigation, was banker David Hale who alleged in November 1992 that Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, pressured him to provide an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, the partner of the Clintons in the Whitewater deal.
After serving four months on the Whitewater fraud conviction, she was released for medical reasons. After McDougal's release, her embezzlement trial in California began. In 1998, McDougal was acquitted on all 12 counts.
James B. McDougal (August 25, 1940 – March 8, 1998), a native of White County, Arkansas, and his wife, Susan McDougal (the former Susan Carol Henley), were financial partners with Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton in the real estate venture that led to the Whitewater political scandal of the 1990s.
March 8, 1998Jim McDougal / Date of death
Carter said the pardons were "disgraceful." Susan McDougal, who had already completed her sentence, was pardoned for her role in the Whitewater scandal. McDougal had served the maximum possible 18 months, including eight in solitary confinement, on contempt charges for refusing to testify about Clinton's role.
Kenneth Winston Starr (born July 21, 1946) is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge and 39th solicitor general of the United States. He is best known for heading an investigation of members of the Clinton administration, known as the Whitewater controversy, from 1994 to 1998.
Betty Currie (born Betty Grace Williams; November 10, 1939) is an American government official who served as the personal secretary for Bill Clinton during his tenure as president of the United States.