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What's His Secret?

Cohen, Richard

1997

Overview

Webster Hubbell's most successful days might have come just before he went to jail. That's when he made about $500,000. To invoke the cliches about Webster Hubbell, the former associate attorney general and friend to the Clintons, he is a bear of a man, affable and sweet, a former football hero who showed he had that special touch when, at the age of only 31, he became mayor of Little Rock. Hubbell, you will recall, was Bill and Hillary's man in the Justice Department. He had headed the litigation section of the Rose Law Firm, where Hillary Clinton had been a partner, and he often played golf with Bill Clinton. Through his father-in-law, he also was connected to the very important and controversial Castle Grande real estate deal that has especially interested the special prosecutor. If there is anything at all to that fog of a scandal called Whitewater, Hubbell might know it. In the month Hubbell resigned from the Justice Department, Riady often was at the White House. One day, in fact, he went to the White House after having breakfast with Hubbell and then saw him again at lunch. This was around the time, reports my colleague Susan Schmidt, that Hubbell went on the Lippo payroll.

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