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22, 1993 WASHINGTON --
Paul Wilcher, an attorney investigating gun running out of Mena, Arkansas was
found dead on a toilet in his apartment. No cause of death was reported by the coroner.
At the time of his death, he was
investigating connections between the "October surprise" of 1980, drug
smuggling,and gunrunning out of Mena, Arkansas. He also researched the BATF assault on the
Waco, Texas Branch Davidians. He was planning on producing a television documentary on his
findings. He had delivered a 105-page affidavit to Janet Reno detailing the evidence he
had collected regarding the drug operation at Mena, just three weeks before his death.
On July 20, 1993, police and rescue personnel
were called to Fort Marcy Park in suburban Northern Virginia. There they found the corpse
of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr. Foster, Hillary Clinton's
colleague at Little Rock's Rose law firm, had a gunshot wound in his head and a revolver
in his right hand. The death was ruled a suicide.
November 30, 1993
Ed Willey,Real Estate Attorney,
Clinton Fund Raiser, died of a shotgun blast to the head. His body was
found in a deeply wooded area of Virginia. The death was ruled a suicide; no note was
found. Mr. Willey died on the same day his wife was allegedly assaulted in the White House
by Bill Clinton.
January 1, 1994
Attorney Gandy Baugh committed suicide by
jumping from a window of a multi-story building. Mr. Bough's firm represented Dan
Lasater, a convicted drug distributor and Clinton associate. Baugh's partner
committed suicide one month later on February 8, 1994.
May 3, 1996
DUBROVNIK - Commerce Secretary, Ron Brown,
died along with 39 other people when the T-43 carrying the group on a trip to Bosnia
crashed while approaching the airport. Brown had been appointed Commerce Secretary by Bill
Clinton partly as a reward for his success as a campaign fund raiser. Investigations into
Ron Brown's activities were nearing the point of indictments.
November 20, 2000
WASHINGTON - Charles Ruff, the
powerful Washington lawyer who represented President Clinton during the
Monica Lewinsky sex scandal and his impeachment trial, died Sunday.
White House spokesman Jake
Siewert said President Clinton was told that Ruff had died after an
accident at his Washington home. Details of the accident were not
available.
After building a career from
representing powerful political figures and, occasionally, their
adversaries, Ruff was asked by Clinton in 1997 to become his chief legal
adviser. At the time, Clinton was being investigated by independent
prosecutor Kenneth Starr for possible wrongdoing in an Arkansas land deal.
The investigation, known as
Whitewater because of the name of the land development scheme in which
Clinton and his wife were partners, soon expanded to include his affair
with Lewinsky, a former White House intern. Starr's investigation led to
the House impeaching Clinton in December 1998 on charges that the
president had lied under oath when questioned about the affair and
obstructed justice.
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