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Kenneth Starr
Kenneth Starr was born in Lockett, a small town near Vernon, the seat of Wilbarger County in north Texas. His father was a Church of Christ minister.
He first attended Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, where he belonged to the Young Democrats and wrote in support of Vietnam protesters, but transferred to George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he received his bachelor of arts degree in 1968. During his time at The George Washington University, Starr was a member of Delta Phi Epsilon , a Professional Foreign Service Fraternity. Starr worked for the Southwestern Company. He later attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, (M.A, 1969) and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, (J.D., 1973). Starr did not go to Vietnam, classified 4-F, due to a case of psoriasis.
After his graduation from Duke, he became a clerk for 5th Federal Circuit Court Judge David W. Dyer (1973-1974), then for Chief Justice Warren Burger (1975-1977).
He joined the staff of the Los Angeles-based law firm Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher in 1977, working out of their Washington office. He was appointed counselor to U.S. Attorney General William French Smith in 1981.
Prior to his appointment as Independent Counsel, Starr was appointed to be a federal judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by President Ronald Reagan and served from 1983 to 1989. He was United States Solicitor General from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush. When the Senate Ethics Committee needed someone to review Republican Senator Bob Packwood's diaries, the committee chose Starr, and Starr was praised by Republicans and Democrats alike for his fairness and decency. In 1990, Starr was the leading candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court nomination after William Brennan's retirement. He encountered a strong resistance from the Department of Justice leadership which feared that Starr might not be reliably conservative as a Supreme Court justice. President George H. W. Bush nominated David Souter instead of Starr. Starr also considered running for the United States Senate from Virginia in 1994 against incumbent Chuck Robb, but opted against opposing Oliver North for the Republican nomination.
"This is perhaps a visceral response on the part of my friends, whose wise, cooler heads will soon prevail. They are smart and they are thoughtful, but this branch of attack is quite wrong."
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Cleburne Times-Review
March 26, 2018
“I can't imagine that there would have been collusion or conspiracy with the Russians that Michael Flynn didn't know about,” said Sol Wisenberg, a former prosecutor with the office of independent counsel Kenneth Starr. “If you're trying to make a collusion case and you are Mueller, you're trying to getÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
March 25, 2018
... Jurecic and Wittes's contention in the piece that the special counsel can do “any kind of reporting that he wants," Jack Goldsmith and Maddie McMahon countered that the special counsel regulations preclude Mueller from pursuing more aggressive forms of disclosure, such as a Kenneth Starr-like report.
Financial Planning
March 3, 2018
In 2010, it was revealed that Hollywood advisor Kenneth Ira Starr (not related to special prosecutor Kenneth Starr) stole money from his clients. Among them were “White Men Can't Jump” star Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallone, Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese and many others. Starr, dubbed “mini Madoff” byÃâà...
The National Memo (blog)
March 2, 2018
It was only when independent counsel Kenneth Starr sought Clinton's testimony again, more than three years later, that his defense attorneys strenuously objected. They managed to stall for almost six months before Starr finally sent over a subpoena, and the battle over that demand ended up before aÃâà...
Above the Law
March 1, 2018
Ken Starr won't stop reminding the world that Ken Starr is a bad guy. By Joe Patrice. Feb 28, 2018 at 3:59 PM. 128Shares. Ken Starr is working hard out there to redeem one of the great injustices of the 90s. Not the deleterious impact of his prurient investigation into Bill Clinton's side action, but the violence done to theÃâà...
The Oakland Press
March 1, 2018
Leon Jaworski, the Watergate special prosecutor, disagreed and suggested that such an indictment might be possible. Recently released material related to the Clinton impeachment shows that the staff of independent counsel Kenneth Starr prepared a memo supporting the indictment of a president andÃâà...
HuffPost
March 1, 2018
She laid her trauma squarely at the feet of bible-salesman-turned-special prosecutor Kenneth Starr and his henchmen, as well as the Republicans who supported his investigation and the nascent 24-hour cable news machine that profited from the whole circus. This week, Vanity Fair published a follow-upÃâà...
Vanity Fair
February 28, 2018
Bennett, the Brooklyn-born Washington superlawyer, would know, having represented President Bill Clinton in the Kenneth Starr investigation. For a fabulist like Trump, however, the danger is tenfold: Mueller has already charged four former members of the Trump campaign with making false or misleadingÃâà...
Signature Reads
February 27, 2018
Twenty years onward from Kenneth Starr's investigation of Bill Clinton — and resulting book The Starr Report, which further scandalized a nation — Monica Lewinsky has written an essay for Vanity Fair about a recent chance encounter in which she finally met Starr himself in person, for the very first time.
CNN
February 19, 2018
This means that beyond charging specific violations of the federal criminal code, Mueller does not have an option to provide a public report laying out the bigger picture, in the same way that former independent counsels, like Kenneth Starr, had the power to do. (Starr, referred to as independent counselÃâà...
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