Ken Starr, the one-time federal prosecutor who led the Whitewater investigation into Bill and Hillary Clinton during the 1990s, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 76.
Independent counsel Ken Starr testifies before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in April 1999.Independent counsel Ken Starr testifies before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in April 1999.
Starr was appointed to a federal judgeship during the Reagan administration, and later served as solicitor general under President George H.W. Bush. In 1994, a three-judge panel appointed Starr to lead an investigation into real estate investments made by the Clintons during the years that Bill Clinton was building his political career in Arkansas.As independent counsel, Starr was granted expansive investigative powers. The scope of the investigation grew far beyond the original inquiry into the Whitewater real estate deal — eventually encompassing Clinton's relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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