David Hale is a former Arkansas municipal judge, a former Arkansas banker, Bill Clinton political supporter and a witness in the Whitewater scandal trials. He worked with Jim McDougal on $3 million in loans from a lending company he ran. He plead guilty and went to jail for conspiring to defraud the Small Business Administration. He was sentenced to two years and four months in prison. As part of his guilty plea, cooperate with Whitewater investigators. Wikipedia
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