The Whitewater Center is currently comprised of over 1,300 acres of protected land offering 50 miles of trail and access to the Catawba River and Long Creek. + Caption. [19], The Clintons lost between $37,000 and $69,000 on their Whitewater investment; this was less than the McDougals lost. The lawsuit outlined complaints made by 10 anonymous women,in addition to Vander Pas. Dead animals and trash were commonly found floating on the waters surface, the employee said. Several formal investigations into Hill's behavior were launched starting in 2017. Recently, the family of a man who did not survive an accident on the Roaring Folk River during a whitewater rafting trip sued the whitewater rafting company involved in the accident through a wrongful-death lawsuit filed in Aspen, Colorado. Wyatt said that if Seitz signed a thorough waiver before her rafting trip, a judge could find grounds to throw out the case. David Hale, the source of criminal allegations against the Clintons, claimed in November 1993 that Bill Clinton had pressured him into providing an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, the Clintons' partner in the Whitewater land deal. [6], Bill and Hillary Clinton never visited the actual Whitewater property. COLUMBUS, Ohio The father of an Ohio woman who died after being exposed to a rare brain-eating amoeba at a North Carolina whitewater rafting center has settled a wrongful-death complaint. {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}}, {{promotional_format_dollars}}{{promotional_price}}{{promotional_format_cents}} {{term}}, Orthopedic surgeons who left SSM Health sue SSM Health, Why Michael's Frozen Custard was demolished on Schroeder Road, Former Wisconsin men's basketball player, transfer commitment find new homes, Hands on Wisconsin: So long and farewell to Aaron Rodgers, Live on King summer concert series lineup is out, Bear spotted in Madison, Fitchburg neighborhoods, Republicans to strip hundreds of items from Gov. The family of an Ohio 18-year-old killed after contracting a brain-eating amoeba during a whitewater rafting trip has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against an outdoor North Carolina recreation . In May 1985, Jim McDougal sold the remaining lots of the failed Whitewater Development Corporation to local realtor, Chris Wade. An Ohiofamily has filed a lawsuit against the National Whitewater Center one year after their teenage daughter died from a brain-eating amoeba infection after visiting the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte last June. If they think they discover more people are responsible for Lauren's death, there could be even more court action. The Walt Disney Company has filed a federal lawsuit against Florida Gov. In December 2012, Vander Pas was a senior at the school and had the first of many unavoidable interactions with Hill, according to the complaint. "It's been a long road, a very long roadand it was not an easy decision to make", McDougal told the court. Confronted with the earlier blog posts, Blackbourn said the posts were "pain logs" as opposed to journal entries, an explanation Stadtmueller found dubious. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. This was the first time in American history that a first lady had been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury. Vander Pas deleted Facebook comments and left the autodelete function of her cell phone's text messages on even after filing her complaint. In February 1997, Starr announced he would leave the investigation to pursue a position at the Pepperdine University School of Law. In warmer areas where this infection has been more common, recommended precautions include: Limit the amount of water going up your nose. The Columbus Dispatch In 2023, we announced a preliminary settlement in Freeman v. Riverside of $540K to be returned to Riverside, CA families who were unfairly charged daily cost of support fees for a family member in juvenile detention. Christopher Ruddy, a reporter for Richard Mellon Scaife's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and later CEO of Newsmax, helped fuel much of this speculation with claims that Starr had not pursued this line of inquiry far enough. Susan Thomases and Webster Hubbell were alleged to have lied to congress, and Harold M. Ickes was accused of misleading congress.[47]. To file a lawsuit in court, you have to be someone directly affected by the legal dispute you are suing about. In response, the park changed its filtration and disinfection system. The father of a teenager who contracted brain-eating amoeba after rafting at the U.S. National Whitewater Center filed a lawsuit against the facility Monday on the one-year anniversary of her death. The 1,100-acre nonprofit facility in northwest Mecklenburg operates on county . One owner, tired of the many reporters who visited the site, hung a sign saying "Go Home, Idiots". Outside investigators hired by UW System concluded that Hill sexually harassed female employees and identified a pattern to his behavior. "There is no room for obfuscation.". On November 19, 1998, Independent Counsel Starr testified before the House Judiciary Committee in connection with the Impeachment of Bill Clinton over charges related to the ClintonLewinsky scandal. The four borrowed $203,000 to buy land, and subsequently transferred ownership of the land to the newly created Whitewater Development Corporation, in which all four participants had equal shares. 557 reviews of US National Whitewater Center "The National Whitewater Center is best described as a skateboard park for whitewater rafting and whitewater kayaking. A former University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student has filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the university and UW System for failing to protect her and others from sexual harassment by a former chancellor's husband. All 11 water samples collected by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services tested positive for therareamoeba, which can infect someone when it goes up the nose. Lauren Seitz, 18, died of a rare brain infection caused by a single-celled animal, the amoeba Naegleria fowleri, days after visiting the center on June 8, 2016, with a church group. 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A March 1992 New York Times article published during the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign reported that the Clintons, then governor and first lady of Arkansas, had invested and lost money in the Whitewater Development Corporation. [41], There was much acrimony from the most fervent critics of the Clintons, after the release of the Starr report on the Foster matter and after Starr's departure and return to the case. In legal terms, this is called having "standing" to file the lawsuit. Her lawyer should have told her to preserve them, Stadtmueller said. [3], These charges were the topic of a separate investigation by former Department of Justice investigator, Michael E. Shaheen Jr.[41] Shaheen filed his report in July 1999 to Starr, who stated that the allegations that Hale had been paid in hopes of influencing his testimony were "unsubstantiated or, in some cases, untrue". [25][26], On February 25, 1994, George Stephanopoulos and Harold M. Ickes attempted to obstruct the Madison Guaranty investigation. The suspected cause of death was attributed to Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis, an infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, a one-celled organism that does not cause illness if swallowed, but can be fatal if forced up the nose. Seth Ward fell under investigation, along with the lawyer who helped him draft the agreement. MADISON, Wis. (AP) A federal judge has tossed out a former University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student's lawsuit that alleged UW System officials failed to prevent the school . [49], The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee also began hearings on Whitewater in July 1994. [56] On December 28, 1993, almost two years after the original announcement, the Clintons did make a reimbursement payment, for $4,900, to the Internal Revenue Service. "With a waiver, generally a judge will interpret the terms of the waiver and determine whether it bars the lawsuit," Wyatt said. There is no room for obfuscation.. In 2014, James Sizemore was a whitewater rafting customer of Blazing Adventures, and during the . [18] Tucker and McDougal were later pardoned by President Clinton. 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RIP. Such a serene, kind, and well informed person with many talents. (HENRY ROMERO/Courtesy USNWC) CHARLOTTE, N.C. Outdoor ice skating is becoming a popular tradition at the U.S. National Whitewater Center. The amoeba can infect a person when water goes up the nose and infections are rare, but almost always fatal. She's also seeking compensatory and punitive damages "in an amount to be determined.". It will be the companys 13th and largest acquisition since 2018, SPX CEO Gene Lowe said. [51] The Senate Special Whitewater Committee issued an 800-page majority report on June 18, 1996, which only hinted at one possible improper action by President Clinton, but spoke of the Clinton Administration as "an American presidency [that] misused its power, circumvented the limits on its authority and attempted to manipulate the truth". Judge tosses former Whitewater student's harassment lawsuit. [45], Starr drafted an impeachment referral to the House of Representatives in the fall of 1997, alleging that there was "substantial and credible evidence" that Bill Clinton had committed perjury regarding Hale's allegations. A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging the University of Wisconsin System failed to protect women from the husband of a UW-Whitewater chancellor who was found to have sexually harassed students and employees. The goal was to subdivide the site into lots for vacation homes, intended for the many people coming south from Chicago and Detroit who were interested in low property taxes, fishing, rafting, and mountain scenery. At the time of the teens death, the center was the only one of only three similar facilities in the U.S. that wasnt regulated to protect the public from waterborne diseases. This was done just before Justice Department investigators started seeking the Clintons' Whitewater files. Fellow. Banks and the FBI determined that the referral lacked merit, but Lewis continued to pursue the case. She was in a raft that overturned. Whitewater officials repeatedly defended themselves by saying that the amoeba is common in warm freshwater lakes and other bodies of water during the summer, particularly in the southern United States. For questions or comments, contact WPRs Audience Services at 1-800-747-7444, email listener@wpr.org or use our Listener Feedback form. It began with an investigation into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation. [11] He acquired the Bank of Kingston in 1980 and the Woodruff Savings & Loan in 1982,[15] renaming them the Madison Bank & Trust and the Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, respectively. Vander Pas' complaint said she was forced to drop out of her MBA program due to mental and physical anguish she suffered as a result of Hill's harassment and the public ridicule she endured after reporting his behavior. But Whitewater proper refers only to the matters stemming from the Whitewater Development Corporation and subsequent developments. It began with an investigation into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation. Our judicial system is built on candor and, most importantly, on justice. Sign up now! According to the agents' official memorandum of that interview, Hale described in some detail his dealings with Jim Guy Tucker (then an attorney in private practice, later Bill Clinton's lieutenant governor), both McDougals, and several others, but never mentioned Governor Bill Clinton. After ten months of litigation in Hall v. USDA, the USDA began providing SNAP households with the lowest incomes (an . Channel 9 asked the family's attorney if she signed a waiver. [27][28][29], In April 1994 after Webster Hubbell resigned from his position as Associate Attorney General and was facing fraud charges, there was the potential that he might cooperate with Ken Starr's investigation. [41] Although she refused to testify under oath regarding the Clintons' involvement in Whitewater, Susan McDougal did make the case in the media that the Clintons had been truthful in their account of the loan, and had cast doubt on her former husband's motives for cooperating with Starr. December 21, 2021 at 2:19 pm EST. She testified that they never borrowed any money from the bank, and denied having caused anyone to borrow money on their behalf. 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The Whitewater controversy, Whitewater scandal, Whitewatergate, or simply Whitewater, was an American political controversy during the 1990s. [36] By that time there was growing backlash from Democrats and other members of the political left against the press' investigations of Whitewater. [55], In March 1992, during his presidential campaign, the Clintons acknowledged that on their 1984 and 1985 tax returns, they had claimed improper tax deductions for interest payments made by the Whitewater Development Company. Case Details Parties Documents Dockets. Former UW-Whitewater student and Whitewater City Council member Stephanie Goettl-Vander Pas sued the System in October 2021 over alleged Title IX violations, alleging university employees violated federal discrimination laws by failing to protect her and others from sexual harassment and assault from then-Chancellor Beverly Koppers husband, Alan Pete Hill. All rights reserved. The Whitewater committee's hearings were much more extensive than those held previously by the Democrats, running for 300 hours over 60 sessions across 13 months, and taking over 10,000 pages of testimony and 35,000 pages of depositions from almost 250 people. Other records, including Goettl-Vander Pass medical records and journaling, were either incomplete or were withheld through a claim of nuance, the judge said. Hubbell was later recorded in prison saying "I need to roll over one more time" regarding the Rose Law firm lawsuit. The lawsuit that was filed by her father, JamesSeitz, alleges the Whitewater Center negligently breached its duty of care owed to Lauren and failed to properly regulate the water, train its employees on how to care for the water and didnt warn visitors about dangers that come with untreated and unregulated water. Channel 9 asked the Whitewater Center if they changed the wording of their waiver after Seitz died, but they responded by saying they don't discuss court cases. She said that she no longer opposed appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the matter. NBC Charlotte has learned that the Whitewater Center does do some treating and testing of its water. Prospective buyers could no longer afford to buy vacation homes. [46], Starr received several criminal referrals from congress but declined to prosecute. Seitz died on June 19,. On 12/27/2022 DESIREE ESPERIAS, filed a Personal Injury - Motor Vehicle lawsuit against FRANCISCO JASINTO MADERO. The complaint also noted Kopper took 84 days to notify her cabinet and the campus that her husband couldn't be on campus. The suit, filed in Ohio where Lauren Seitz lived, alleges the parks popular rafting channels were dangerous and that park operators showed conscious disregard for the safety of visitors.. Example video title will go here for this video. She said Hill made "increasingly brazen" comments about her appearance and romantic relationships when she was a student government leader from 2009 to 2011. Contact Kelly Meyerhofer at kmeyerhofer@gannett.com. In a 2018 post that predated Hill's behavior becoming public, Vander Pas wrote that she had dropped out of her MBA program because of pain associated with her condition. The suit was initially filed in June 2017 on the one-year anniversary of 18-year-old Lauren Seitz's death. [12], In spring 1985, McDougal held a fundraiser at Madison Guaranty's office in Little Rock that paid off Clinton's 1984 gubernatorial campaign debt of $50,000. Seitz died on June 19,2016,as a result of the deadlyamoebaNaegleriafowleriafter visiting the center on June 8, officials said. [56], Kenneth Starr's successor as Independent Counsel, Robert Ray, released a report in September 2000, that stated "This office determined that the evidence was insufficient to prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that either President or Mrs. Clinton knowingly participated in any criminal conduct. "[54] Starr also chose this occasion to completely exonerate President Clinton of any wrongdoing in the Travelgate and Filegate matters;[53] Democrats on the committee immediately criticized Starr for withholding these findings, as well as the Whitewater one, until after the 1998 Congressional elections. This case was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Courts, Pomona Courthouse South located in Los Angeles, California. The lawsuit outlines multiple situations where System employees observed or were told about Hills behavior, but no reports were filed. Marks Sr.: Jim Guy Tucker's business partner (, Neal Ainley: Perry County Bank president (embezzled bank funds for Clinton campaign), Larry Kuca: Madison real estate agent (multiple loan fraud), Charles Matthews: Whitewater defendant (bribery), This page was last edited on 21 April 2023, at 17:21. This was a $3 million study done for the Resolution Trust Corporation by the Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro law firm at the time that Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan was dissolved. Angela Major/WPR. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Neither Bill Clinton nor Hillary Clinton were ever prosecuted, after three separate inquiries found insufficient evidence linking them with the criminal conduct of others related to the land deal. Avoid water-related activities in warm fresh water during periods of high water temperature and low water levels. Almost two years later, the subpoenaed billing records of the Rose Law Firm were discovered in the Clintons' private residence in the White House, with fingerprints of Hillary Clinton, among others.[38]. It also means the key question of whether UW officials did their job and followed Title IX, the federal gender-equity law, may remain unresolved in this case. You must have standing. The lawsuit against the U.S. National Whitewater Center was filed Monday, just over a year after Seitz, 18, from Ohio, contracted a brain-eating amoeba at the facility. In 2015, while serving as a city councilwoman, she said she bumped into Hill outside a coffee shop and he slid his hand down her back and reached under her skirt to touch her sexually while hugging her. A former University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student has filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the university and UW System for failing to protect her and others from sexual harassment by a former chancellor's husband. The House Committee on Financial Services had been scheduled to begin hearings in late March 1994, but they were postponed after an unusually angry, written communication from Democratic Banking Committee chair Henry B. Gonzalez to Republican Jim Leach. It may not be to the level of a swimming pool, but certainly a lot more than any lake or river would receive. UW officials asked for Vander Pas' journals, diaries, blogs, text messages, medical records, emails, job applications and other documents relevant to her case. Under scrutiny after Seitzs death, the park closed the water feature for nearly two months and a federal epidemiologist found that filtration and disinfection systems were inadequate to properly clean the facilitys turbid waters. This amoeba can cause severe illness up to nine days after exposure. The past practice led to lawsuits alleging that judges are incentivized to impose the maximum assessment to increase court revenue. Little Rock U.S. Attorney Charles A. 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