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Haley, Convicted in Whitewater Probe, Dies at 72

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - John Haley, a Little Rock attorney who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor after being swept up in the Whitewater investigation of former President Bill Clinton, was killed on Thursday in the crash of his private plane, his family said on Saturday.

Haley, 72, and his passenger, Farish Kincaid, 70, of north Little Rock, were killed in the crash. They had been flying to a business meeting in northwest Arkansas, the family said.

Haley was a tax attorney for Jim Guy Tucker, who succeeded Clinton as governor of Arkansas in 1992. Tucker, Haley and a third man entered guilty pleas in a tax avoidance case in a fraudulent bankruptcy scheme. Investigators found no connection with that case and Clinton.

Tucker was convicted of an earlier charge of fraud and conspiracy in the Whitewater investigation.

Haley's plea bargain with Whitewater prosecutors, in 1998, reduced his offense to a misdemeanor and allowed him to keep his law license. He was assessed $70,000 in fines and penalties.

Arkansas Connections

Ex-Im Bank is a government- held corporation, managed by a Board of Directors whose members serve at the discretion of the President of the United States.7 A key player in the China transactions is Board member Maria Haley, who served under Governor Clinton in Arkansas, and who moved from the White House in 1995 to become Ex-Im’s Asia-Pacific Director.8

The Philippines born Haley is an ambassador’s daughter who lived in Asia before moving to the U.S. to marry Arkansas attorney, John Haley.

John Haley, it turns out, is the partner and personal lawyer for former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, who resigned his office after being convicted along with Susan McDougal in connection with a fraudulent loan.9 John Haley is under indictment and awaiting trial by Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr.

John Haley, a Little Rock attorney who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor after ~~being swept up in the Whitewater investigation~~ avoiding taxes in a fraudulent bankruptcy scheme ...

There, I think that's a bit more accurate.

Bias in the media? What bias in the media?!! grrrrrrrrr!