Eugene C. Fitzhugh (May 11, 1926 – August 21, 2007) was a Little Rock, Arkansas lawyer and businessman.

On June 23, 1994, he pleaded guilty to trying to bribe David Hale. In exchange for his bribery plea, he was sentenced to 28 months, and prosecutors dropped charges accusing him of conspiring to defraud the Small Business Administration. He also received one year of probation, a $3,000.00 fine and lost his law license. The guilty plea was part of Kenneth Starr's probe into what is known as the Whitewater investigation and report. He came into front page national news as a result of the Whitewater investigations. He was sentenced with his colleague Charles Matthews.

Eugene Fitzhugh

David Hale is a former Arkansas municipal judge, a former Arkansas banker and a witness in the Whitewater scandal trials.

Eugene Fitzhugh

References

CBS News, Caught In The Whitewater Net, Washington, May 19, 1998

The NY Times, First Trial for Whitewater Prosecutor, June 20, 1994

USA Today obituary

External links

CBS

NY Times

Lawyers from Little Rock, Arkansas

1926 births

2007 deaths

Whitewater controversy

Businesspeople from Little Rock, Arkansas

Eugene Fitzhugh