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==Whitewater, David Hale, and Ken Coon==
==Whitewater, David Hale, and Ken Coon==
Coon was a tangential figure in the Arkansas Whitewater affair of the 1990s. Judge David Hale made Coon an officer of the National Savings Life Insurance Company, a burial insurance firm. In 1998, Hale was scheduled to be tried in Arkansas state court for fraud in connection with the company, but his medical needs — a heart condition — halted the proceedings. In 1995, Samuel Dash, the ethics counselor to Whitewater special prosecutor [[Kenneth Starr]], informed Mark Stodola, a Democrat with the Pulaski County prosecutor's office, that Stodola could face [[obstruction of justice]] if he proceeded with charges against Hale. Dash told Stodola that Hale was cooperating in a federal investigation. Starr said that he would have preferred to handle the insurance fraud matter at Hale's federal sentencing, but Stodola filed state charges against Hale.<ref>[http://www.netmagic.net/~franklin/MA1.html].</ref>
Coon was a tangential figure in the Arkansas Whitewater affair of the 1990s. Judge David Hale made Coon an officer of the National Savings Life Insurance Company, a burial insurance firm. In 1998, Hale was scheduled to be tried in Arkansas state court for fraud in connection with the company, but his medical needs — a heart condition — halted the proceedings. In 1995, Samuel Dash, the ethics counselor to Whitewater special prosecutor [[Kenneth Starr]], informed Mark Stodola, a Democrat with the Pulaski County prosecutor's office, that Stodola could face [[obstruction of justice]] if he proceeded with charges against Hale. Dash told Stodola that Hale was cooperating in a federal investigation. Starr said that he would have preferred to handle the insurance fraud matter at Hale's federal sentencing, but Stodola filed state charges against Hale.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.netmagic.net/~franklin/MA1.html|publisher=netmagic.net|title=Arkansas|accessdate=July 8, 1997}}</ref>
No charges were brought against Coon, who in 1974 had declared that he was "so honest that I might appear to be naive."<ref>''Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report,'' October 12, 1974, p. 2719.</ref>
No charges were brought against Coon, who in 1974 had declared that he was "so honest that I might appear to be naive."<ref>''Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report,'' October 12, 1974, p. 2719.</ref>