When talking about top female attorneys, Sandra Day O’Connor immediately comes to mind for many. As the first-ever female Justice of the United States Supreme Court, O’Connor is a trailblazer for most female lawyers and a role model for others looking to practice law.
Throughout the years, Geoff has been recognized with various awards such as the national EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2019 award. Under Geoff’s stewardship, WhiteWater has also been named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for many years.
The Whitewater Investigation. The investigation continued, with Kenneth Starr at the helm and businessman David Hale as the star witness. Starr alleged that Bill Clinton, during his term as governor of Arkansas, pressured Hale to make an illegal $300,000 federally-backed loan to Susan McDougal.
The length, expense, and results of the Whitewater investigations turned the public against the Office of the Independent Counsel; even Kenneth Starr was opposed to it. The Independent Counsel law was allowed to expire in 1999. ^ a b Jeff Gerth, "Clintons Joined S.& L. Operator In an Ozark Real-Estate Venture", New York Times, March 8, 1992.
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.
March 8, 1998Jim McDougal / Date of death
As Attorney General, Reno oversaw the Justice Department and its 95,000 employees. Reno remained Attorney General for the rest of Clinton' presidency, making her the longest-serving Attorney General since William Wirt in 1829. In 1994, Reno tasked the Justice Department with compiling a report on DNA exoneration.
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation resulted in convictions against the McDougals for their role in the Whitewater project. Jim Guy Tucker, Bill Clinton's successor as governor, was convicted of fraud and sentenced to four years of probation for his role in the matter.
Jim McDougall is a former judge in Maricopa County Superior Court, retiring from the bench in 2000 after 26 years of distinguished service as a judge and commissioner, including six years as the Presiding Judge of Juvenile Court.
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Former US. Attorney General Janet Reno has Parkinson disease, but she never stuffs her hands in her pockets to hide her tremors. Instead she's completely upfront about the neurological disease, which was diagnosed in 1995. “I never try to hide anything,” said the Miami native.
Waco Siege During the early days of her tenure as U.S. attorney general, Reno faced one of her biggest challenges.
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After more than four years of investigation, Starr filed the Starr Report, which alleged that Clinton lied about the existence of the affair during a sworn deposition. The allegation led to the impeachment of Clinton and the five-year suspension of his law license.
Bill Clinton: The president has now testified under oath in two Whitewater cases tried by Starr and his team. In the first, Clinton steadfastly contradicted the government's star witness, banker David Hale, who said Clinton had pressured him to make an illegal $300,000 loan. After supporting Clinton's denial, James McDougal is reportedly now corroborating Hale. Starr is also investigating Travelgate (the Clinton Administration's firing of seven longtime travel office workers) and the FBI files flap (the improper collection of some 900 FBI background files). During his presentation before the House Judiciary Committee over the Monica Lewinsky investigation, Starr said that he did not have enough evidence to present reports to Congress on Whitewater, Travelgate and the FBI files affair but that the investigations are continuing.
Robert Fiske: The first Whitewater independent prosecutor, Fiske, a New York attorney with a reputation for even-handedness, was appointed in January 1994. His investigation, which critics called lackluster, focused on longtime Clinton associate and White House counsel Vincent Foster's July 1993 death, which Fiske ruled a suicide.
Robert Hill: Along with co-defendant Herby Branscum Jr., Hill was charged with 11 counts of misusing bank funds for political purposes in the second Whitewater trial. Prosecutors suggested Clinton rewarded Hill with a plum Arkansas state job in return for political donations. The jury acquitted both Branscum and Robert Hill on four charges and deadlocked on the rest. Starr decided not to retry.
Hillary Clinton: She made history as the only first lady to appear before a federal grand jury, which she did in January 1996 after being subpoenaed by Starr to help explain the mysterious appearance of her long-sought Whitewater billing records in a book room in the Clintons' White House residence. Mrs. Clinton was reportedly a major focus of Starr's investigation, and figures prominently in Whitewater, Travelgate, and the FBI files flap. Starr's investigations into those matters remains ongoing.
Neal Ainley : The government's star witness in the second Whitewater trial, Ainley was formerly president of Perry Bank and pled guilty to two misdemeanors. He told jurors he saw documents revealing that the defendants, Robert Hill and Herby Branscum, reimbursed themselves for political donations to Clinton's gubernatorial campaign. Defense attorneys dismissed Ainley as a scoundrel simply trying to cut a deal to get a lighter sentence for his own crimes.
James Carville: The Democratic strategist who helped orchestrate Clinton's 1992 campaign, Carville threatened in late 1996 to mount an aggressive campaign to counter what he has termed Starr's "Republican effort to harass the president, the first lady and their friends." Though he backed down a bit, Carville remains the Clintons' preeminent political pit bull and stridently defended the Clintons and attacked Starr during the Monica Lewinsky investigation and subsequent impeachment of the president.
Webster Hubbell: A former Rose Law Firm partner of Hillary Rodham Clinton and a golfing buddy to Bill, Hubbell was Starr's first prey, pleading guilty in late 1994 to bilking the Rose firm of hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent billings. The former No. 3 person at the Justice Department, Hubbell recently completed an 18-month jail sentence, but has frequently been summoned to testify before Whitewater federal grand juries or Capitol Hill committees, though he has frequently cited memory lapses on key issues. Senate Whitewater investigators believe Hubbell lied about his involvement with a deal called Castle Grande, and referred him to Ken Starr for possible criminal investigation. Tax evasion charges filed by Starr were dismissed by a federal judge who concluded that the tax evasion case went beyond Starr's mandate to investigate the Whitewater land deal. But Starr appealed and a federal appeals court ruled that the judge overreached his authority when he threw out the charges. In November 1998, Starr got a third indictment alleging that Hubbell lied to federal regulators about the work he and Mrs. Clinton did for a failed Arkansas savings and loan association owned by the Clintons' Whitewater partner, James McDougal. The indictment also alleges that he committed perjury while testifying before the House Banking Committee during nationally televised Whitewater hearings.
Marcia Lewis: Monica Lewinsky's mother appeared before the grand jury after attempts to quash a subpoena failed. Investigators suspect Lewinsky may have talked to her mother, with whom she shared a Watergate apartment, about her relationship with the president.
Lucianne Goldberg : Goldberg is a New York literary agent who suggested to Tripp that she secretly record her conversations with Lewinsky. Goldberg has said the suggestion was meant to protect Tripp, not to entrap Clinton. A former Nixon operative, Goldberg represented the Arkansas state troopers who went public with stories of Clinton womanizing, as well as Dolly Kyle Browning, who was trying to sell her later-debunked story of an affair with Clinton.
Monica Lewinsky: A 25-year-old former White House intern, Lewinsky is at the heart of the scandal. Lewinsky came to the White House in June 1995 and later became a salaried employee in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. She says her trysts with Clinton began in late 1995 during the government shutdown. She moved to the Defense Department in April 1996 and left the Pentagon, apparently on good terms, in December 1997. full story
She told The New York Times that Lewinsky was transferred to the Pentagon for "inappropriate and immature" behavior.
Vernon Jordan: An influential Washington lawyer and close advisor to Clinton, Jordan chaired the president's transition team in 1992. The two are frequent golfing partners. Jordan sits on several major corporate boards and referred Lewinsky to two companies for possible employment. He helped Lewinsky find a Washington lawyer to help with her Paula Jones case affidavit, in which she denied having a sexual relationship with the president. Jordan said she told him the same thing. full story
Betty Currie: The president's personal secretary served as a link between Clinton and Lewinsky. According to the Lewinsky-Tripp tapes, Lewinsky claims that she visited the White House in the late afternoon or evenings and was signed in by Currie. She says she also addressed couriered packages intended for the president to Currie. Clinton friend and advisor Vernon Jordan said he helped Lewinsky in her employment search at Currie's request.
Steve Goodin : Former Clinton personal aide who was almost always at the president's side, carrying his personal papers and nudging the president along if he ran behind schedule. The position gave him extraordinary access to the president, along with a close view of people with whom the president came into contact.
Also in 1978, Bill and Hillary formed the Whitewater Development Corporation with James and Susan McDougal, intending to buy up 230 acres of riverfront land and sell it as lots for vacation homes. Jim McDougal, a real estate entrepreneur, was an old friend of Bill's and cut the Clintons into a deal where they wouldn't pay any upfront investment — but could still stand to profit from the home sales. The land was purchased for $203,000, and paid for by a $180,000 loan on which the Clintons and McDougals were jointly liable, plus a second loan McDougal took out for the down payment.
Investigations into Whitewater uncovered real wrongdoing. Fifteen people, in total, were convicted of various charges. The McDougals were convicted of fraud, as was Jim Guy Tucker, Clinton's successor as governor of Arkansas. Webster Hubbell, a law partner of Hillary's who served in the Clinton Justice Department, pleaded guilty to fraud charges. But ultimately, none of the many investigations into Whitewater — including, most famously, one by independent counsel Kenneth Starr — found that the Clintons did anything criminal. The conclusion was that it's likelier they were victims of Jim McDougal's malfeasance than that they were co-conspirators.
But the Clintons' critics alleged they were involved in Madison's wrongdoing. In 1986, Webster Hubbell — who would later plead guilty to fraud charges for overbilling clients at the Rose Law Firm, where he and Hillary Clinton worked at the time — and then–Gov. Bill Clinton (D-AR) attend a social function in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Whitewater project was a failure. The location was bad; the land wasn't even accessible after the frequent heavy storms that caused the river to flood. And amidst the stagflation of the late '70s and early '80s, interest rates were surging, rendering vacation homes unaffordable for many families.
Ultimately, none of the many investigations found that the Clintons did anything criminal
David Hale, Capital Management Services' former president, claimed that the Clintons were in on the conspiracy. Hale alleged that Clinton pressured him to issue a fraudulent $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, money that Hale claimed had been used in part to shore up Whitewater.
Webster Hubbell, a law partner of Hillary's who served in the Clinton Justice Department, pleaded guilty to fraud charges. But ultimately, none of the many investigations into Whitewater — including, most famously, one by independent counsel Kenneth Starr — found that the Clintons did anything criminal.
In August 1994, Republican Kenneth Starr was appointed by a three-judge panel to continue the Whitewater investigation, replacing Republican Robert B. Fiske, who had been specially appointed by US attorney general Janet Reno, prior to the re-enactment of the Independent Counsel law. Fiske was replaced because he had been chosen and appointed by Janet Reno, Clinton's attorney general, creating the appearance of a conflict of interest .
The Whitewater controversy, Whitewater scandal, 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 McDougal and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation.
The Clintons lost between $37,000 and $69,000 on their Whitewater investment; this was less than the McDougals lost. The reasons for the unequal capital contributions by the Clintons and McDougals are unknown but the President's critics cited the discrepancy as evidence that then-Governor Clinton was to contribute to the project in other ways.
From the beginning, Susan McDougal charged that Starr had offered her "global immunity" from other charges if she would cooperate with the Whitewater investigation. McDougal told the jury that refusing to answer questions about the Clintons and Whitewater wasn't easy for her, or her family. "It's been a long road, a very long road...and it was not an easy decision to make", McDougal told the court. McDougal refused to answer any questions while under oath, leading to her being imprisoned by the judge for civil contempt of court for the maximum 18 months, including eight months in isolation. Starr's subsequent indictment of McDougal for criminal contempt of court charges resulted in a jury hung 7–5, in favor of acquittal. President Clinton later pardoned her, shortly before leaving office (see list of people pardoned by Bill Clinton ).
Hale pleaded guilty in the Whitewater case to two felonies and served 21 months of a 28-month sentence.
The term "Whitewater" is sometimes used to include other controversies from the Bill Clinton administration, especially Travelgate, Filegate, and the circumstances surrounding Vince Foster's death, that were also investigated by the Whitewater Independent Counsel.
Susan McDougal chose the name "Whitewater Estates" and their sales pitch was, "One weekend here and you'll never want to live anywhere else." The business was incorporated on June 18, 1979.
Allegations surfaced during the investigation, which was led by special prosecutor Robert B. Fiske, that Clinton pressured David Hale—former president of a small business investment firm—into making a loan for the Whitewater deal.
The Whitewater scandal was a real estate controversy that came to public attention in the 1990s. It involved former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary along with their associates. It was a failed investment into a land development venture known as Whitewater. 1 . After a series of lengthy investigations into the matter—famously led by ...
Outcome. All three inquiries into the Whitewater land deal yielded insufficient evidence to charge the Clintons with criminal conduct. However, several of their associates were convicted as a result of the investigations including James McDougal, who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges in 1997 relating to loans made with Madison. 1  8 . ...
The investigation continued, however, with Kenneth Starr at the helm and businessman David Hale as the star witness. Starr alleged that Bill Clinton, during his term as governor of Arkansas, pressured Hale to make an illegal $300,000 federally-backed loan to Susan McDougal. 16 1 The allegation lost much of its credibility after Hale was convicted of numerous felonies. 1 17
The Clintons were cleared of any wrongdoing in the Whitewater scandal.
A graduate of Harvard, Lynch climbed the legal ladder, and eventually President Obama nominated her to become attorney general—making her the first ever African American woman attorney general, and second woman attorney general. As attorney general, Lynch facilitated high-profile cases involving corruption and policing in the U.S.
Women have played vital roles in the growth of the practice of law. Whether it be defending clients in court, representing companies, or making powerful rulings, female lawyers continue to fight for justice and pave the way for women in the field. Certain female attorneys have left remarkable imprints on the field of law.
She was then appointed to the Supreme Court on August 6, 2009. A serious advocate for equal rights, justice, and gender equality throughout her career, Sotomayor has also taught law at New York University and Columbia Law School. Sotomayor is using her position in the Supreme Court to lend a voice to gender equality issues.
Gloria Allred is a renowned advocate for women’s rights. With a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from New York University, she is a very influential and prominent attorney with more than 40 years of experience and practice under her belt.
In 1999 President Bill Clinton appointed Loretta Lynch attorney for the Eastern District of New York. President Barack Obama later reappointed her in 2010 for the second time after a short stint in private practice.
Sonia Sotomayor. The first Hispanic and Latina Supreme Court Justice, and the third woman to be an associate justice, Sonia Sotomayor is a major inspiration to many. Born to Puerto Rican parents and diagnosed with diabetes as a little girl, Sotomayor believed she would not live above 50 years.
A Yale Law School graduate, Hillary Clinton is a corporate lawyer who defended companies and corporations for the Rose Law Firms for more than 15 years.
Despite being successful in his own career, a sense of belonging to the family business, WhiteWater, called him home, and Paul joined WhiteWater full time in 2015. In his current role as Chief Commercial Officer, Paul oversees WhiteWater’s global business development efforts and functions.
Onno is the COO of WhiteWater West Industries Ltd. since 2018. He joined WhiteWater as the Director of Supply Chain in 2017. Onno’s specialty is in international supply chain management with over 10 years of experience at Philips Electronics in various senior supply chain positions and 4 years with Cooledge as VP of Manufacturing. He has worldwide industrial experience in Eindhoven (Netherlands), Shanghai (China), and Vancouver (Canada). In 2012, he moved from the corporate environment of Philips to a small entrepreneurial start-up Cooledge in Vancouver. After 4 years with Cooledge, Onno made a change from electronics industry to entertainment industry. Onno Meeter is Dutch by origin and a proud father of two daughters.
With the founding of WhiteWater in 1980, Geoff Chutter helped establish an industry that continues to bring joy to millions around the globe. A water park veteran, Geoff’s start in the amusement and attractions space began with his investment in his own park in BC, Canada.
Rainer Maelzer started in the theme park industry in 1997 before co-founding the German company wiegand.maelzer in 2006. Rainer and his co-founder grew wiegand.maelzer to become one of the top 10 water slide companies in the world. Under Rainer’s leadership, wiegand.maelzer went from developing stainless steel water slides for other local German companies to a major global player in the industry. Rainer contributed significantly to the development and expansion of some well-known European water parks, including one of the largest indoor parks in the world, Therme Erding.
Franceen is also a former board chair and board member of WWA (World Waterpark Association) and the IAAPA board of directors.
Franceen Gonzales has outstanding credentials as a park operator and held top management positions at Golfland Entertainment Centers Inc., Waterworld Safari in Phoenix, Arizona, and Wet ’N’ Wild Waterworld in Texas. She was previously Vice President, Risk Management and Waterparks, for Great Wolf Resorts where she was responsible for safety and risk management as well as water park operations and maintenance for the company’s 12 water park resorts in North America.
Phil Edgell. President, Vantage. As the former VP Global Sales Operations at Hootsuite, Phil led the company’s global enterprise sales operations, helping to drive revenue predictability and forecasting accuracy for the world’s most widely used social media management platform.