Webb Hubbell
Arkansas lawyer and associate attorney general under Clinton with connections to weapons manufacturing for the Contras and the Mena, Arkansas drug investigation.
Webb Hubbell was a former Arkansas lawyer who served as associate attorney general in the Clinton administration and had connections to both the Mena, Arkansas drug trafficking investigation and weapons manufacturing for the Contras.1
Park On Meter Connection
Hubbell was the former secretary and corporate lawyer of Park On Meter Inc., a small manufacturer of parking meters in Russellville, Arkansas, and the brother-in-law of the company's owner. Former Air Force intelligence officer Terry Reed claimed that Park On Meter was secretly manufacturing parts for M-16 rifles as a subcontractor on a CIA weapons project to supply the Contras. Hubbell admitted to a Time magazine reporter that POM was also making rocket launchers.1
Danny Casolaro Investigation
In early 1994 Hubbell, as associate attorney general, ordered "a nationwide investigation" into the suspicious death of investigative reporter Danny Casolaro, who had been investigating connections between the Cabazon Indian tribe, Wackenhut International, and weapons manufacturing for the Contras. Hubbell's interest in the journalist's death may have been more than passing curiosity, given his own connections to a company making weapons parts for the Contras.1
Not long after ordering the investigation, Hubbell pleaded guilty to crimes he'd committed while an Arkansas lawyer and resigned from the Justice Department. What resulted from the Casolaro investigation, or even whether it ever went forward, has not been made public.1
Sources
- Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 6: "They were doing their patriotic duty" ↩
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