McDougal Offers to Sell Copies of Whitewater Papers
President and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s former business partner has a new idea for making money--selling Whitewater documents he just got from the White House. Price tag: $2 a page.
The Clintons this week sent James B. McDougal about 2,000 pages of corporate tax returns, bank records on the controversial land development and records on the sale of Whitewater lots, says a letter from the Clintons’ lawyer, David Kendall.
McDougal’s lawyer, Sam Heuer of Little Rock, said Thursday that anyone who wants copies of the documents can buy the package next Tuesday for $2 a page.
Heuer said McDougal needs the money for his legal defense. Much of the money would go to pay Heuer, who says he has represented McDougal since last fall without pay.
McDougal, when asked about the price tag, took a slap at news organizations that have been covering the Whitewater controversy: “These capitalists in the East have made money off of us. I think it’s only fair we turn it around.”
At the White House, Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers said of the records: “They’re his. He can do anything he chooses.”
The Clintons were 50-50 investors with McDougal and his then-wife, Susan, in the Whitewater project, a 230-acre vacation and retirement development in the Ozarks of northern Arkansas.
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