Whitewater scandal

The Whitewater scandal was an American political scandal which developed in Bill Clinton's first term as president, after the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster. After Foster's death it was learned that chief White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum had removed documents concerning the Whitewater Development Corporation from Foster's office. President Clinton and his wife had invested in this corporation; the Clintons were accused of fraud in connection with this investment during the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation of the bankruptcy of Madison Guaranty, an Arkansas trust company.

Additional scandals

In 1994 Paula Jones had filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton which was unrelated to the Whitewater investigation. Clinton testified in this lawsuit in 1998 and gave the impression through his testimony that he had not had an affair with an intern named Monica Lewinsky.

Related Topics:
Paula Jones - 1998 - Affair - Intern - Monica Lewinsky

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Unknown to either Lewinsky or Clinton, a former White House staffer Linda Tripp had recorded Lewinsky talking about her relations with Clinton. Tripp turned these tapes over to the Whitewater investigators who sought and received an expansion of the scope of the investigation to cover the President's Paula Jones testimony.

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