Clinton Impeachment: The President’s Lawyers. Jan 08, 1999. Five lawyers are to bear most of the burden of President Clinton’s defense: Charles F.C. Ruff, Gregory B. Craig, Cheryl D. Mills, David E. Kendall and Dale Bumpers.
In the '90s, the Clinton impeachment was seen as a joke, a very serious judgement on America's obsession with sex, or not that big a deal, depending on your perspective. The fact a majority Republican Senate voted not to convict the Democratic president on either perjury or obstruction of justice seemingly proved that the charges were trumped up.
Steven C. LaTourette (R-OH) US Representative, voted to impeach Bill Clinton for the Lewinsky scandal while he himself, was having a long-term affair with his chief of staff, Jennifer Laptook. (2003)
The specific charges against Clinton were lying under oath and obstruction of justice. The charges stemmed from a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Clinton by Paula Jones and from Clinton's testimony denying that he had engaged in a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
In this role, became best known for skillfully defending Clinton during his 1999 impeachment trial in the Senate, which ended in the president's acquittal. Ruff was one of five defense attorneys who represented Clinton; the others were Gregory B. Craig, Cheryl D. Mills, David E.
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Mr. Clinton earned $875,000 in speaking engagements in 2004. The previous two years, he earned a combined $13.9 million in such fees. His paid appearances in 2004 included a $250,000 speech in March 2004 for Citigroup in Paris, and a $125,000 speech in December 2004 in New York to Goldman Sachs.
How Joe Biden's EO could make it easier to quit your job. They reported owing $1.7 million to $6.5 million at the end of 2002, and between $500,000 and $1 million to a New York law firm by the end of 2003.
Sen. Clinton collected another $2,376,716 in 2004 royalties for her memoirs, "Living History," making her total take from the book near $8.7 million so far. Mr. Clinton's spokesman said the president's busy schedule and two surgeries in 2004 for a heart bypass brought down his speech earnings.
A year later, all of those debts have been paid. The president is not required to report the extent of payments from his best-selling autobiography "My Life," which has sold more than 2 million copies in the United States and was just released in paperback.
Charles Ruff: Ruff was the White House counsel who presented President Bill Clinton's defense at the impeachment trial. Ruff died in November 2001. Vandana Rambaran is a reporter covering news and politics at foxnews.com. She can be found on Twitter @vandanarambaran.
Former President Bill Clinton was represented by four attorneys during his impeachment trial, which ultimately ended in his acquittal by the Senate in 1999. Here's a look at where they are today. Cheryl Mills, counselor and chief of staff for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaks during the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative ...
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The White House has a total of 30 hours over Tuesday and Wednesday to make its case against impeachment. Ruff will deliver the closing arguments on Clinton's behalf at 1 p.m. ET Wednesday.
During the ex-lawmakers' testimony, Hyde and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-California) argued after Waters -- citing a recent Los Angeles Times article -- accused Hyde of inconsistency in evaluating falsehoods by government officials.
The Clinton impeachment became one of the most salacious political scandals in American history. But the event — known as Whitewater — that triggered the investigation that turned into the report that led to impeachment was not about sex and lies but land and fraud.
This prompted an investigation by an independent special counsel, initially led by Robert Fiske, who was replaced in 1994 by Kenneth Starr, who had previously worked in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. This counsel later started looking into Bill's relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
Linda Tripp's tapes gave Kenneth Starr a reason to expand his investigation. FOX. Once Lewinsky and Clinton learned that her name was on the witness list in the Jones case, it appears that they tried to come up with a story that denied allegations of an affair.
Starr and his special counsel had expanded the scope of the Whitewater investigation to look into Clinton's other potential wrongdoings. (See: Travelgate .) And in January 1998, Starr received permission to look into the Jones case, after receiving some very damning evidence from an unlikely source.
Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton's affair lasted from 1995 until 1997. Adam Jones, PhD. In the summer of 1995, 22-year-old Monica Lewinsky reported to the White House for an internship. That November, she was hired to a paid position dealing with correspondence, according to the Washington Post.
On January 16, 1998, Monica Lewinsky went to the Ritz-Carlton hotel near the Pentagon to meet Linda Tripp for lunch. But as the New York Times reported eight days later, she was instead surrounded by FBI agents, who escorted her to a room and told her that they had 20 hours of her talking about her relationship with Clinton. This contradicted the affidavit she'd signed in the Paula Jones case, which meant she could potentially be charged with perjury.
It was agreed that the House managers and Clinton's lawyers would each have 24 hours to make their case (divided over several days) followed by 16 hours of questioning for each side from the Senate, which would then vote on whether to call witnesses.
Lewinsky before a grand jury and obstructed justice by trying to conceal that relationship. The lawsuit that led to the impeachment drama was filed by Ms. Jones in 1994.
Clinton Administration officials said a check for $850,000, the amount agreed to in November to settle the case, was being sent by overnight mail to Ms. Jones and her lawyers.
A conservative legal organization said it would sue to prevent Mr. Clinton from using that fund to pay the settlement.
A blind trust that is in Mr. Clinton's name was reported in financial disclosure forms last year to have less than $100,000 in assets. A White House official said that although the trusts were in separate names, they were, in effect, joint accounts.
Jones's lawsuit last April 1, Chubb initially said it would not pay for the remaining sexual harassment counts, but its officials changed their minds after negotiations with Mr. Bennett. Advertisement.