Whitewater Figure Goes to Hospital
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — David Hale, one of President Clinton’s chief Whitewater accusers, has been moved from a federal prison to a hospital because of heart trouble, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Friday.
Hale was moved Tuesday from a Texarkana, Texas, prison to an undisclosed hospital in the area, a prison official said.
Hale, 56, has had an irregular heartbeat, said his attorney. Hale is about halfway through a 28-month prison sentence. He pleaded guilty in 1994 to felony conspiracy and mail fraud charges involving his lending company.
During the Whitewater trial last year of former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and James B. and Susan McDougal, Hale testified that Clinton, when he was governor, had pressured him to make an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal in 1986.
Hale is scheduled to appear at a pretrial hearing Sept. 2 on separate state charges that he lied to regulators about the financial health of an insurance company he owned.
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