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Washingtonpost.com Staff
Thursday, April 1, 1999

This is a list of the expenditures for six ongoing independent counsel investigations. The six-month figures represent spending from April 1 to September 30, 1998. Total cost figures are through September 30, 1998.

Name: Arlin M. Adams, Larry D. Thompson
Appointed: March 1990
Subject: HUD (Reagan administration)
Cost, six months: $477,679
Total cost: $28,600,581

Name: David M. Barrett
Appointed: May 1995
Subject: Henry Cisneros
Cost, six months: $1,429,202
Total cost: $8,737,197

Name: Carol Elder Bruce
Appointed: March 1998
Subject: Bruce Babbitt
Cost, six months: $1,413,421
Total cost: $1,417,441

Name: Donald C. Smaltz
Appointed: September 1994
Subject: Mike Espy
Cost, six months: $1,803,323
Total cost: $19,267,890

Name: Kenneth W. Starr
Appointed: August 1994
Subject: Whitewater
Cost, six months: $6,245,582
Total cost: $39,795,348

Name: Ralph Lancaster
Appointed: May 1998
Subject: Alexis Herman
Cost, six months: $264,242
Total cost: $264,242

Source: General Accounting Office