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figure in the Whitewater investigation, was sentenced to 21 months
in prison for bilking his law firm and some of its clients. Mr.
Hubbell pleaded guilty last December to defrauding the Rose Law
Firm, and to a lesser degree its clients, out of $482,410. He also
admitted owing $143,747 in back taxes as a result of his fraud.
“Better than anyone, I know the severity of my actions and their
tremendous consequences on others, “Mr. Hubbell told U. S.
District Judge George Howard Jr., at his sentencing yesterday. “I
simply became overwhelmed and was unable at that time to face up
to my failures .... I was simply wrong.” Mr. Hubbell also was
sentenced to three years’ probation and community service. He will
be required to make $135,000 restitution.
In a case that foretold the Harvey Weinstein cataclysm, on
September 8, 1995, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times
carried headlines and extensive stories about Robert Packwood’s
resignation from the U.S. Senate.
Headline - Packwood Resigns Senate Seat After Panel Details
Evidence
Excerpts:
The Senate Ethics Committee’s 10,145 page compilation of evidence
that led to Bob Packwood’s resignation today paints a portrait of a
senior Senator who altered evidence he thought might be
incriminating, repeatedly tried to take advantage of women
dependent on him for jobs and pressured lobbyists to provide
consulting fees for his wife. “These were not merely stolen kisses as
Senator Packwood has claimed,” Senator McConnell, Chairman of
the Ethics Committee said in describing Mr. Packwood’s “physical
coercion” of women. “There was a habitual pattern of aggressive,