Ken Starr, the attorney who led the investigation into the sex scandal involving former US President Bill Clinton and then White House intern Monica LewinskyHe died today at the age of 76, after complications from the surgery.
Starr was nominated by former President Ronald Reagan to be a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals and served as U.S. Attorney General under then-President George HW Bush. He also served as president of Baylor University and dean of Pepperdine University Law School.
He is best known for leading Whitewater, which started with Bill’s First Lady Hillary Clinton about investing in real estate, but has expanded to include many other areas. 24 years old in the White House.
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The ultra-religious, Republican Party militant, his course seemed to be on track during the “conservative revolution” of the 1980s.
In the early Ronald Reagan administration, he joined the Department of Justice as undersecretary.
He later became the youngest judge in the history of Washington’s highest federal appeals court and was named attorney general by George Bush. The next step in Starr’s script was the Supreme Court. But Bush chose to nominate others because Starr, like Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, was seen as “a little soft”, “not very Republican”.
With the election of Clinton in 1992, Starr would have to wait several years before he could re-imagine the Supreme Court. He went to the private sector. He flirted with the prospect of running for the Senate for the state of Virginia. In August 1994, until a federal court appointed him the independent prosecutor in the Whitewater case, replacing Robert Fiske.
source: Noticias
