SUSAN MCDOUGAL ON TRIAL
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Court TV) — In yet another unusual turn in the Susan McDougal trial, a top deputy of Kenneth Starr told the jury that he had doubted the Clintons' honesty.

Susan McDougal's brother handed prosecutor W. Hickman Ewing Jr. a subpoena on Wednesday afternoon as he sat in the back of the courtroom, and McDougal's attorney has suggested he may even put Kenneth Starr himself on the stand.

The prosecution wrapped up its case against former Clinton business partner Susan McDougal on Wednesday. In her third trial in as many years, McDougal is currently charged with criminal contempt and obstruction of justice for refusing to answer questions from Starr investigators.

She had claimed that Starr's investigators were out to get the Clintons regarding of the facts in the case. Her trial, however, has ventured far beyond the parameters of the contempt charges.

McDougal's attorneys are focusing on undermining the tactics used by Starr's deputies in the Whitewater investigation, while prosecutors are using the trial to revive the flagging inquiry into the twenty-year-old failed land deal.

Earlier this week, prosecutors played a 40-minute excerpt of Hillary Clinton's grand jury testimony, which had been kept secret for the past year. But on Thursday, defense attorney Mark Geragos responded by quizzing Ewing on his suspicions regarding the first lady. Ewing said he didn't know if he'd ever called the Clintons liars, but he acknowledged that he had doubted the truthfulness of their testimony.

He said he drafted an indictment of Hillary Clinton in 1996 after long-sought billing records from her law firm mysteriously turned up in the White House and revealed that she had in fact worked on the Whitewater land development.

Federal investigators say James McDougal, Susan's husband, was using the real estate scheme to prop up his savings and loan group, but the scheme failed and eventually cost McDougal $4 million.

Investigators claim McDougal's S & L was riddled with fraud, and believe the Clintons were involved in shady financial dealings, which occurred when President Clinton was the governor of Arkansas.

Under questioning by Geragos, Ewing admitted that prosecutors did not tell the grand jury that James McDougal frequently changed his story. Starr told U.S. District court Judge George Howard that McDougal had testified truthfully and had "substantially aided our search for the truth."

Court TV's Catherine Heins and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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