August 17, 1995

During the investigations of what came to be called the Whitewater scandal, Susan McDougal and her former husband Jim McDougal were charged with bank fraud, along with Jim Guy Tucker, regarding questionable loans. Susan McDougal was convicted of four felonies: mail fraud, wire fraud, misapplication of funds, and aiding and abetting. Her former husband began cooperating with the Office of the Independent Council (OIC), but she refused to testify, believing that the OIC was interested only in obtaining damaging information on the Clintons. She was imprisoned for almost two years, before ultimately being found not guilty and released.