Plus, more importantly, Elvis' middle name was misspelled on his gravestone!
Posted on 12/04/2003 7:00:42 PM PST by TomServo
HARRISON, Ark. (AP) - A lawyer who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge filed by Whitewater prosecutors died Thursday when the small plane he was piloting crashed while trying to land at an airport, officials said.
John Haley, 72, who was once the personal lawyer of former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, had recently joined a new law firm. A partner, Peter B. Heister, confirmed Haley's death.
One passenger, Farish Kincaid, 70, also was killed in the crash. Authorities said the men, both from the Little Rock area, apparently were due at a business meeting in Harrison.
Haley and Tucker were accused in 1995 of setting up a sham bankruptcy to hide profits from a business deal. Haley pleaded guilty and was fined and ordered to pay restitution.
Tucker pleaded guilty in the case, and was also convicted in a separate trial on fraud charges involving James and Susan McDougal, the partners of President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Whitewater land deal. Tucker was sentenced to probation and home detention.
The Clintons were never charged in connection with Whitewater.
Haley's Bonanza single-engine, two-seat aircraft crashed in a ravine about 300 yards south of the Boone County Airport in northwestern Arkansas, Sheriff Danny Hickman said.
The National Transportation Safety Board planned an investigation.
Thank You for some sanity.
People like them are patient. In the end - they find the right time and the right place.
Plus, more importantly, Elvis' middle name was misspelled on his gravestone!
No, just an
Another Arkancide.
For some of you newer people. Mike Huckabee's Band played at the Freeper Ball for the Inaguration of President Bush in DC. He and the band were great.
HARRISON, AR - The two people who were killed in a plane crash at Harrison this morning were identified as 72-year-old John Haley of Little Rock and 70-year-old Farish Kincaid of North Little Rock.
Boone County Sheriff Danny Hickman says the single-engine Bonana plane, believed belonging to Haley and piloted by him, had its landing gear down when it approached the Boone County Airport.
The plane, a two-seater, ended up in a ravine about 300 yards south of the airport after it attempted to land about 10 a.m.
The sheriff said the plane was destroyed and federal investigators would be on the scene tomorrow to try to determine the cause of the accident. Authorities believe the two men were on a business trip to Harrison.
City parks employees, working on a softball complex about a quarter-mile from the airport on the city's north side, said the airplane was dumping fuel before it made an attempt to land.
The parks workers said they could smell the fuel as it dropped around them.
Because of the crash, a plane bringing Lieutenant Governor Win Rockefeller to Harrison for a dedication ceremony at a post office and VFW park in Holiday Island didn't land. Rockefeller spokesman Steve Brawner says the plane turned around and Rockefeller returned to Little Rock.
Note: AP's twin seat Bonana is known elsewhere as a Beechcraft Bonanza.
Gotta LOVE the brain dead press. The Bonanza is 50 years old and the press still doesn't know it seats 5/6. Waytogo, press stupes!
Also, several cases of Hillary's Rose Law Firm billing records, reported lost in 1994, were recovered from the wreckage...
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