Whitewater Figure Tucker Testifies
Cooperating in the investigation that implicated him, former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker testified Wednesday before the Whitewater grand jury.
“We just discussed some history,” he said at the lunch break. He said he reviewed documents, but he would give no other clues about his testimony.
Lawyers said last month that Tucker had information about First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s work at the Rose Law Firm on a development south of Little Rock called Castle Grande. The lawyers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Tucker’s information also pertains to Webster L. Hubbell, a Rose Law Firm partner, and Hubbell’s father-in-law, Little Rock businessman Seth Ward.
Tucker, convicted in 1996 in a previous Whitewater trial, pleaded guilty last month to avoiding $3 million in income taxes through a sham bankruptcy in the 1980s.
Tucker resigned as governor after his 1996 conviction with the Clintons’ former business partners, James B. and Susan McDougal.
Asked if his testimony was damaging to either of the Clintons, he said: “Someone else would have to make that judgment.”
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