Once Again, It's Hubbell

Even as one scandal dies for Bill Clinton, another comes back to life. Representative Dan Burton's campaign-finance team is set in coming days to depose presidential pal Webster Hubbell on a sensitive subject. Burton's gumshoes have traced an additional $200,000 that went to Hubbell in 1994, bringing to $700,000 the total of gifts and fees raised by Clinton friends from sympathetic companies. Independent counsel Kenneth Starr is trying to determine if any of it was intended to buy Hubbell's silence about Clinton dealings at a time when Hubbell was being investigated. In the deposition Burton will focus on payments to Hubbell by figures in the 1996 campaign-finance scandal, such as the Riadys of Indonesia, whose $100,000 payment to the former associate attorney general was previously disclosed. Whatever Hubbell spills about another benefactor, Vernon Jordan, could be of more interest. Jordan landed Hubbell $60,000 in consulting fees from Revlon, the same company he got to offer a job to Monica Lewinsky.