They were, however, concerned
that VP Bush was pissed off at the political flak he was taking for
protecting Hutton, so they decided to hire a prominent Democrat to
repair the political fences; they ended up paying former AG Griffin Bell
about $2.5 million to handle the damage control. I can't help wondering
if all the members of Congress who were shouting so loud then for
someone at Hutton to go to jail would feel the same way now that their
own check-kiting at the House bank has come to light. And if Carper
hadn't known all along that what Hutton was doing was pretty shady, he
has to have known it by the summer of 1985, but he kept trying to help
Hutton get more favorable treatment under the federal banking laws.
3: Paragraph 59 Do you remember in "My Fair Lady" when Professor
Higgins said, "The French don't care what they do, as long as they
pronounce it correctly"? That's Hutton all over -- they didn't care
that they broke the law, but they got all bent out of shape that the
media reported they did. Here's Shapiro's October 1991 testimony about
the check-kiting and related scandals: "Hutton had had a very bad press
because of some federal charges, and they were very sensitive about
adverse publicity." "Hutton had had a series of bad newspaper notices
and was very sensitive to criticism in the press.
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