Editing Webster Hubbell (section)

==Additional criminal charges==
During the months after Hubbell's resignation, he entered into legal consulting contracts with several clients including the Indonesian Riady family and [[Revlon]].<ref name = "hubbellx">{{cite web
| title = Webster Hubbell, Confidant of Clintons, Indicted on Tax Charges
| work = The New York Times
| url = http://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/050198whitewater-hubbell.html
| date = May 1, 1998
| access-date = February 28, 2014
}}</ref> This activity became the focus of another [[Ken Starr|Starr]] investigation while Hubbell served out his sentence. Despite years of investigation, and although Independent Counsel Starr alleged that Hubbell "did little or no work for the money paid by his consulting clients", Starr ultimately concluded there was insufficient evidence to prove that any legal consulting contract or payments were intended to influence Hubbell's cooperation with investigators in the Whitewater investigation.<ref name="specialcounsel"/>

Starr and his prosecutors were convinced that Hubbell knew all the Clintons' secrets that were under investigation{{Citation needed|date=July 2014}} and that, if pressured enough, Hubbell would tell all. On April 30, 1998, Hubbell and his wife were indicted for conspiracy, tax evasion and mail fraud. Hubbell had, in the course of Starr's investigation, provided documents as part of an immunity agreement with the Independent Counsel about his consulting agreements. Despite this agreement, Starr used this information to obtain an indictment of Hubbell, his wife, his accountant and his tax lawyer.

District Judge James Robertson dismissed the charges against Hubbell and his wife on July 1, 1998, ruling that Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr had overstepped his authority in bringing the Hubbell indictment. Judge Robertson ruled that Starr had violated Hubbell's Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination by building a case that relied on materials collected under an immunity agreement with Hubbell.<ref name = "hubbell2">{{cite web
| title = Hubbell Case Dismissed by District Court
| work = Court TV
| url = http://www.courttv.com/archive/legaldocs/government/whitewater/hubbell_dismiss.html
| date = July 1, 1998
| access-date = July 15, 2006
}}</ref> Starr appealed to the Court of Appeals and Judge Robertson was affirmed. Starr then appealed to the United States Supreme Court. In an 8–1 decision (with Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist the lone dissenter), the Supreme Court also ruled in favor of Hubbell.<ref>See ''[[United States v. Hubbell]]'', 530 U.S. 27 (2000).</ref>

On November 14, 1998, Starr obtained a third indictment, this time alleging that Hubbell had committed fraud and given false testimony to the House Banking Committee and federal banking regulators.<ref name="cnnindictment">{{cite news
 |title       = Hubbell under 3rd indictment; says Starr can't make him lie about president
 |work        = CNN
 |url         = http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/11/13/hubbell/
 |date        = November 13, 1998
 |access-date  = August 24, 2008
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20061223044717/http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/11/13/hubbell/
 |archive-date = December 23, 2006
}}</ref> On June 30, 1999, the day Starr was required to step down as Independent Counsel, Hubbell entered into a plea agreement resolving the indictments. Hubbell pleaded guilty to one charge of failing to disclose a potential conflict of interest from ten years earlier. He was sentenced to one year of probation; in exchange, the prosecutor dropped charges against Hubbell's wife, lawyer, and accountant, and Starr agreed not to bring further charges against him.<ref name = "latimesplea">{{cite news
| title = Hubbell Guilty Plea Closes Starr's Arkansas Inquiries
| work = Los Angeles Times
| url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-01-mn-51899-story.html
| access-date = August 24, 2008
| first=Eric
| last=Lichtblau
| author-link=Eric Lichtblau
| date=July 1, 1999
}}</ref>