clinton pressured him in the mid-1980s to make one of the illegal loans to susan mcdougal." clintons' names being found on documents surrounding the mcdougals' illegal activities triggered the investigation that would become known as the whitewater scandal. "well, i looked forward to being able to tell the grand jury what i know. to be able to answer their questions. i, like everyone else, would like to know the answer about how those documents showed up after all these years." arkansas and in washington." "an allegation is not the same thing as a fact and, particularly i would remind the american people when it comes to the whole whitewater issue the allegations have often, and matter of fact virtually always, bore no relationship to the facts. that's really the story of this r the clintons were eventually cleared of any wrongdoing but fifteen others were not. "the president's arkansas business partners and political allies found guilty on multiple counts including conspiracy and fraud." whitewater was a noticeably expensive and complicated investigation and one neither side