House OKs Paying Hamilton Jordan’s Cocaine Probe Costs
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WASHINGTON — The House today approved legislation to let the government pick up the legal bills of former White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan, who was accused during a special investigation of cocaine possession.
The bill was approved on a 347-40 vote and sent to the Senate. Jordan, now recovering from treatments for lymphoma, a form of cancer, ran up legal bills of $67,553 during the investigation, in which no evidence that he had possessed the drug was found.
Jordan, who served under President Jimmy Carter, is planning to run for the Senate in his native Georgia.
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