Ken Starr

Starr, best known for his role leading the investigation that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, died of complications related to surgery, ...

[See the program.](https://festival-platform.texastribune.org/agenda?promo=site-story-footer&tr=true) He was born in Vernon and died in Houston of complications related to surgery, according to a statement from the family. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune's journalism. "Judge Starr was a dedicated public servant and ardent supporter of religious freedom that allows faith-based institutions such as Baylor to flourish,” Livingstone said. Starr presided over Baylor University when 15 current and former female students filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming they had been raped or assaulted by fellow students. Starr’s final report on the scandal charged Clinton with lying to Congress and abusing his presidential powers.

Starr's Whitewater investigation, which uncovered Clinton's affair with Lewinsky, led to US president's impeachment in 1998.

[Starr](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/13/ken-starr-jeffrey-epstein-book) was a prosecutor whose Whitewater investigation led to the impeachment of former Democratic president Clinton, in 1998. Kentucky Republican and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell issued a statement saying: “I am very sorry to learn of the passing of my friend Judge Ken Starr. Starr will be buried at the Texas state cemetery in Austin. [was reported](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/13/ken-starr-jeffrey-epstein-book) that Starr had waged a “scorched-earth” legal campaign to persuade federal prosecutors to drop a sex-trafficking case against the late sex offender and billionaire financier [Jeffrey Epstein](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/jeffrey-epstein) relating to the abuse of multiple underaged girls, according to a book by the Miami Herald reporter Julie K Brown who uncovered how the law had gone soft on Epstein, before [his arrest in 2019](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/08/jeffrey-epstein-sex-trafficking-charges-court) on federal sex trafficking charges. He died on Tuesday at Baylor St Luke’s medical center in Houston, of complications from surgery, the [statement said](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kenneth-w-starr-former-federal-judge-and-us-solicitor-general-dies-at-76-301623638.html). [Bill Clinton](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/clinton) over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, has died at the age of 76, according to a statement issued by his family.

Kenneth Starr, the Texas attorney in the Whitewater investigation that later led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, died Tuesday at 76, his family ...

The Baylor board of regents voted to remove Starr as president in 2016, saying he and other officials failed to appropriately handle Bush, and as President and Chancellor of Baylor University and Dean of the Pepperdine School of Law, respectively. Starr went on to serve as the U.S. In 1982, he was appointed to the U.S. In 1994, Starr was tasked with investigating the suicide of White House counsel Vince Foster, along with Clinton’s investments in Whitewater Development Corporation, a real estate firm. The Starr Report, published in 1998, alleged Clinton lied about his affair with Lewinsky in a sworn deposition, which led to Clinton’s 1998 impeachment.

Ken Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation led to the impeachment of former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1998, has died at age 76, his family said in a ...

Before he became special prosecutor, he was often mentioned as a Republican president's potential nominee to the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Clinton - only the second president until then to face this charge of wrongdoing. In that job, he argued 25 cases, including controversial lawsuits on abortion rights and school prayer. Lewinsky, she performed oral sex on the president on nine occasions. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com On all nine of those occasions, the president fondled and kissed her bare breasts," "The Starr Report" said.

Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president's impeachment, ...

Starr became counselor to Smith, and from there was nominated by Reagan to the federal appeals court. During the government shutdown late that year, she and Clinton had a sexual encounter in a hallway near the Oval Office, the first of 10 sexual encounters over the next year and a half. In a bitter finish to his investigation of the Lewinsky affair that engendered still more criticism, Starr filed a report, as the law required, with the U.S. He concluded that Clinton lied under oath, engaged in obstruction of justice and followed a pattern of conduct that was inconsistent with the president’s constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws. In 2020, he was recruited to help represent Trump in the nation’s third impeachment trial. Neither of the Clintons was ever charged in connection with Whitewater. But it caught the attention of federal regulators, who began looking into whether money from the S&L had been diverted to a real estate venture called Whitewater in which Bill and Hillary Clinton and the S&L’s owner, Jim McDougal, shared a financial interest. Both she and the president were questioned by Starr’s prosecutors and their videotaped depositions were played for juries in criminal trials of McDougal and his ex-wife Susan. Each of the controversies held the potential to do serious, perhaps fatal, damage to Clinton’s presidency. For many years, Starr’s stellar reputation as a lawyer seemed to place him on a path to the Supreme Court. At age 37, he became the youngest person ever to serve on the U.S. Starr died at a hospital Tuesday of complications from surgery, according to his former colleague, attorney Mark Lanier.

Ken Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation led to the impeachment of former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1998, has died at age 76, his family said in a ...

Before he became special prosecutor, he was often mentioned as a Republican president's potential nominee to the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Clinton - only the second president until then to face this charge of wrongdoing. In that job, he argued 25 cases, including controversial lawsuits on abortion rights and school prayer. Lewinsky, she performed oral sex on the president on nine occasions. On all nine of those occasions, the president fondled and kissed her bare breasts," "The Starr Report" said. 19, 1998, the U.S.

Starr, a prominent attorney who served as special counsel in a five-year criminal investigation into then-president Clinton, died in hospital of ...

Starr became counselor to Smith, and from there was nominated by Reagan to the federal appeals court. Starr was demoted from the presidency at Baylor in 2016 amid a sex assault scandal that rocked the Big 12 school and its football program, as women alleged campus leaders at the nation’s largest Baptist school bungled or ignored their assault complaints. In a bitter finish to his investigation of the Lewinsky affair that engendered still more criticism, Starr filed a report, as the law required, with the U.S. In a post to his Truth Social account, Trump paid tribute to Starr as “a true American Patriot who loved our Country and the Law. Lewinsky was granted immunity from prosecution in the case that brought Starr celebrity and thrust a presidential sex scandal into America’s living rooms. He concluded that Clinton lied under oath, engaged in obstruction of justice and followed a pattern of conduct that was inconsistent with the president’s constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws. But it caught the attention of federal regulators, who began looking into whether money from the S&L had been diverted to a real estate venture called Whitewater in which Bill and Hillary Clinton and the S&L’s owner, Jim McDougal, shared a financial interest. Neither of the Clintons was ever charged in connection with Whitewater. In a Tuesday tweet, Lewinsky expressed mixed emotions on the news of Starr’s death. “The assaults took a toll” on the investigation, Starr told a Senate committee in 1999. For many years, Starr’s stellar reputation as a lawyer seemed to place him on a path to the Supreme Court. Starr died at a hospital Tuesday of complications from surgery, according to his former colleague, attorney Mark Lanier.