"After five years, it's over, " a relieved Hubbell told reporters following the court appearance.
Following the court appearance, Hubbell and Starr disagreed over the details of Hubbell's guilty plea.
After that meeting, Vernon Jordan agreed to help obtain financial assistance for Mr. Hubbell.
Hubbell pleaded guilty to bilking his Little Rock law firm and served 18 months in prison.
Both Mrs McDougal and Mr Hubbell have already served many months in prison on other charges.
The Hubbell plea also signals to many that Starr may be wrapping up his investigation.
The charges were two of 15 counts for which Hubbell was scheduled to stand trial Aug. 9.
And let me parenthetically go to that point right before Mr. Hubbell announced his resignation from the Justice Department.
The misdemeanor count of not reporting income stemmed from consulting jobs Hubbell performed prior to his fraud conviction in 1994.
U.S. District Judge James Robertson accepted Hubbell's guilty pleas and the prosecutors' sentence recommendation, placing Hubbell on one year probation.
Clinton pal and former number three at the Justice Department Webster Hubbell pleaded guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion.
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The plea ends nearly five years of investigation of Hubbell, who formerly was the No. 3 official in the Justice Department.
He was instrumental in securing consulting contracts for Mr. Web Hubbell, while Mr. Hubbell was under investigation by the independent counsel.
There was thus a clear and present danger of prosecution such that Hubbell should have precluded the production of these documents.
Independent counsel Kenneth Starr is investigating whether any of the help may have been hush money for Hubbell, a key Whitewater witness.
Hubbell said he agreed to plead guilty to failing to disclose a potential conflict of interest ten years ago to federal regulators.
Starr decided not to retry either woman, and said Wednesday that those setbacks contributed to this decision to settle the Hubbell matter.
Hubbell knew that conversations on the prison phone would be recorded, but that doesn't mean he knew they would be made public.
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Mezzo Victoria Livengood (Eunice Hubbell), tenor Dominic Armstrong (Steve Hubbell) and tenor Andrew Bidlack (A Young Collector) were part of an appealing supporting cast.
Hubbell was convicted of fraud and spent 18 months in prison.
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Strikingly, the Ninth Circuit does not address Hubbell in its decision.
Hubbell refused to comment, as the deal is not yet official.
His achievements over that stretch outpace the full careers of many notable Hall of Fame pitchers, including Whitey Ford, Carl Hubbell, Sandy Koufax and Jim Palmer.
Instead, Hubbell will plead guilty to the felony charge of concealing material from federal regulators relating to billing records of the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas.
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Under the terms of the agreement, prosecutors recommended no jail time or fine for the felony and will drop charges against Hubbell's wife, Suzy, and his accountant.
Why in the world did about-to-go-to-jail former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell suddenly, miraculously, get showered with lucrative consulting contracts adding up to several hundred thousand dollars?
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