Linda Medlar-Jones (born 1949) was a principal figure in a high-profile political sex scandal that triggered an exhaustive 2½ year, multimillion-dollar investigation by the U.S. Office of the Independent Counsel during the first term of U.S. President Bill Clinton.
The principal target of the investigation was her former lover, Housing and Urban Development secretary Henry Gabriel Cisneros of San Antonio, Texas.
Medlar, who according to court documents, had a long history of mental illness, secretly recorded many of her telephone conversations with Cisneros.
The television broadcast of transcripts of the taped conversations, as well as a televised Inside Edition interview in which Medlar charged Secretary Cisneros with lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, prompted U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno to call for an independent investigation.
Ten years later, Medlar was convicted of bank fraud, in a scheme designed to provide her daughter with a home.