Hillary escaped Whitewater indictment, compared to ‘Mafia kingpin’

Published January 29, 2016 6:52pm ET



Prosecutors looking into the Clinton-era Whitewater scandal considered indicting then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, tied closely to four charged in the affair, but decided in 1998 not to after an internal debate rated a possible conviction at just 10 percent.

Judicial Watch released documents provided by the National dArchives that showed the “statements of the case” against Clinton and Webster Hubbell, her former Rose Law Firm partner and former Associate Attorney General in the Clinton Justice Department.

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