His allegations of criminal behavior resulted in the Whitewater scandal trials.
He worked with Jim McDougal on $3 million in loans from a lending company he ran.
[1] He was sentenced to two years and four months in prison for fraud unrelated to the Whitewater deal.
As part of his guilty plea for looting money from an insurance company, he provided the allegations for the Whitewater scandal and testimony for its investigators.
On June 23, 1994, Eugene Fitzhugh pleaded guilty to trying to bribe Hale.