On Sept. 9, 1996 McDougal was found in contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury about the Whitewater affair.

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McDougal had previously spent 18 months behind bars after Judge Susan Webber Wright found McDougal in civil contempt for refusing to testify before the grand jury.

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Investigators believe about 40 percent of that money was laundered, and several of those who gave money are refusing to testify about where it really came from.

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Two weeks ago at a bankruptcy hearing at a federal courthouse in Baltimore, Beverly Carden, AccuPay's former president, took the Fifth Amendment on the witness stand, refusing to testify about the company's operations or its assets.

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Geragos, joined by the American Civil Liberties Union, has contended that federal authorities -- influenced by Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr -- were illegally holding McDougal in Los Angeles County jail as punishment for refusing to testify in the Whitewater investigation.

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Collins was not asked to testify in 1947 and was not one of the "Hollywood 10" who were subsequently jailed for refusing to cooperate.

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