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Tucker Partner Pleads Guilty
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AllPolitics, Aug. 28) -- A former business partner of former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker pleaded guilty today to a fraud charge over a cable television deal.
"I am guilty," Boston businessman William J. Marks Sr. told U.S. District Judge Stephen M. Reasoner.
Marks and Tucker were accused of setting up a fraudulent bankruptcy that saved them $2 million in taxes. The investigation into this deal stemmed from independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr's probe into the Whitewater matter.
Sources say Starr recommended to the judge that Marks serve no time in jail, but Reasoner said he was not bound by that agreement.
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Thursday Aug. 28, 1997
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• Tucker Partner Pleads Guilty
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• Michael Brown To Plead Guilty
• Drudge Hit With $30 Million Suit
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E-mail From Washington:
• White House Resists Turning Over Espy Documents