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Starr Wants To Shorten Hale's Prison Term
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AllPolitics, March 25) -- Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr has asked a federal judge to reduce Whitewater figure David Hale's prison sentence, to reward the Arkansas banker's cooperation.
Hale "continues to provide information material to the grand jury's ongoing investigation into highly complex financial arrangements," said Starr in papers filed Monday, the deadline for sentence reduction requests.
Formerly the head of a lending company that worked with the federal Small Business Administration, Hale pled guilty last year to felony counts of mail fraud and conspiracy. He also faces continuing state insurance charges.
Starr did not say in the papers how much he would like to see Hale's 28-month sentenced reduced, but asked the judge to delay the decision until it's more clear how helpful Hale has been.
Hale has made sensational claims against President Bill Clinton, testifying in court last spring that, in 1986, Clinton pressured him to make an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, Clinton's Whitewater business partner. The president has called Hale's story "a bunch of bull."
