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            Monday April 3, 2000; 11:46 AM EDT 

            Hillary Faces Disbarment Complaint 

            She was heralded as one of America's top one hundred lawyers
            eight years ago. But now, thanks to a long forgotten filing 
            by the Landmark Legal Foundation, Hillary Clinton could face
            disbarment proceedings. 

            In October 1996 the conservative watchdog group complained 
            that Mrs. Clinton's legal work on an Arkansas land deal 
            known as Castle Grande was unethical. Fraud in Castle Grande
            eventually cost the taxpayers over $4 million. 

            Landmark's complaint has lauguished unacknowledged for the 
            last three years with Arkansas' Legal Committee on 
            Professional Conduct. Last week Landmark's president Mark 
            Levin wrote the group's chairman, demanding that the board 
            stop dragging its feet on the ethics complaint against 
            Hillary -- and act immediately one way or the other. 

            On Monday Levin told NewsMax.com that unless the disbarment 
            committee processes Landmark's filing soon, he intends to 
            take the matter up with the Arkansas Supreme Court. 

            In 1996 federal regulators concluded that Mrs. Clinton's 
            legal work on Castle Grande helped facilitate bank fraud. 
            That work was documented in Hillary's long-lost Rose Law 
            billing records, which materialized in the White House 
            bookroom in January 1996. 

            Immediately after the discovery, then-Independent Counsel 
            Ken Starr subpoenaed the first lady to testify before his 
            Washington, D.C., grand jury. 

            The billing records themselves had been under subpoena for 
            years. The copy discovered in the White House had margin 
            notes written in the late Vince Foster's hand and Hillary 
            Clinton's fingerprints on key pages. 

            The Senate Whitewater Committee concluded that it was highly
            likely Mrs. Clinton's Castle Grande billing records were 
            among documents removed from Foster's office on the night of
            his death. In 1997, a duplicate copy was discovered by his 
            widow in the attic of their Little Rock home. 

            Landmark Legal represents Whitewater whistleblower L. Jean 
            Lewis, the federal banking regulator who wrote the first 
            criminal referral on Whitewater, which named the Clintons as
            possible witnesses in the case. 

            Levin told NewsMax.com that Hillary's disbarment is just one
            of several alternatives available to the bar, which could 
            suspend her law license, slap her on the wrist with a 
            reprimand or do nothing. 

            "But the first thing they have to do is investigate, gather 
            testimony and get Hillary Clinton's response," said Levin. 

            That could be problematic for Hillary, he observed, as the 
            Clintons seem to get into the most trouble when they testify
            under oath. 

            The deadline for Bill Clinton to respond in his own 
            disbarment case, which was prompted by his false testimony 
            in the Paula Jones lawsuit, is April 21.
















































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