Guide Note:
Webster "Web" Hubbell is a former law partner of Hillary Rodham Clinton who was forced to resign from his position as associate Attorney General in the Clinton administration in 1994. Hubbell pleaded guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion in connection with billing inconsistencies at the Rose Law Firm, and he was sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Fast Facts:
- Born: 1949
- Former occupation: Lawyer
- Former law partner of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vince Foster
- Served as mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas
- Served as Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court
- Served as Associate Attorney General under Bill Clinton
- Convicted of mail fraud and tax evasion charges in 1994
- Pleaded guilty to felony count for concealing work on Whitewater
- Sentenced to 21 months in prison
Brief Biography
When Bill Clinton became President in 1993, one of the Little Rock, Arkansas, friends he brought with him to the White House was former mayor of Little Rock and former law partner of Hillary Clinton, Webster "Web" Hubbell. Hubbell would soon prove to be a political liability after he was convicted of mail fraud and tax evasion charges in 1994. After Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr probed into the Clintons' Whitewater land deal, Hubbell would again plead guilty, this time to felony charges related to his concealing from investigators work he performed on the project. While Starr was investigating the deal, Hubbell received payments and employment from friends of the Clintons, and this, too, created ethical problems for the Administration.1
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