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HenchPAC NewsWASHINGTON (AP) _ The disciplinary arm of the Arkansas Supreme Court, which already is looking into a complaint seeking to disbar President Clinton, said it will review one against first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for her actions in the Whitewater venture.
In a letter to a conservative group last week, the executive director of the court's committee on professional conduct said he will evaluate information from federal regulators that Mrs. Clinton, as a lawyer in Little Rock, created a real estate document later used by her Whitewater partners' savings and loan to deceive federal regulators. The document helped enable the payment of $300,000 in real estate commissions to the father-in-law of Mrs. Clinton's law partner Webster Hubbell.
Mrs. Clinton says she recalls nothing about the matter.
The conservative group, Landmark Legal Foundation, said the information provides "credible information suggesting that Mrs. Clinton may have violated" the Arkansas code of conduct requiring lawyers to act with honesty and integrity.
On Monday, Mrs. Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, called the conservative group's complaint ridiculous.
The group filed the complaint against Mrs. Clinton in 1996, but said it never got a response.
In his letter last week, the court committee's executive director, James Neal, said he thought he had reviewed the matter earlier but that he was unable to find a copy of his response.
"Therefore, this office will again review and evaluate the information provided in your earlier correspondence," Neal wrote.
All complaints to Neal's office are handled with an initial review by the executive director, who has the authority to reject them.
The group's complaint was based on a report by the inspector general of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. focusing on the actions of Mrs. Clinton for the S owned by her Whitewater partners, Jim and Susan McDougal.
Separately, the committee is giving the president until April 21 to respond to a request that he be disbarred for allegedly lying in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
The Arkansas Supreme Court in January ordered the committee on professional conduct to take up long-standing complaints against the president, including one arising from a federal judge holding Clinton in civil contempt of court for giving misleading testimony regarding Ms. Lewinsky in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit.
HENCH adds: BOTH of them disbarred in the same year? Please don't tease me with such fantasies, the letdown could be.....JUST WHAT THEY PLANNED!"
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