Washingtonpost.com Staff
Wednesday, September 30, 1998

This is a list of the expenditures for six ongoing independent counsel investigations. The six-month figures represent spending from October 1, 1997 to March 31, 1998. Total cost figures are through March 31, 1998.

Name: Arlin M. Adams, Larry D. Thompson
Appointed: March 1990
Subject: HUD (Reagan administration)
Cost, six months: $524,860
Total cost: $28,122,902

Name: David M. Barrett
Appointed: May 1995
Subject: Henry Cisneros
Cost, six months: $1,839,899
Total cost: $7,307,995

Name: Carol Elder Bruce
Appointed: March 1998
Subject: Bruce Babbitt
Cost, six months: $4,020
Total cost: $4,020

Name: Donald C. Smaltz
Appointed: September 1994
Subject: Mike Espy
Cost, six months: $2,654,379
Total cost: $17,464,567

Name: Kenneth W. Starr
Appointed: August 1994
Subject: Whitewater
Cost, six months: $3,950,707
Total cost: $33,549,766

Name: Curtis E. Von Kann
Appointed: November, 1996
Subject: Eli J. Segal
Cost, six months: $136,890
Total cost: $381,712

Source: General Accounting Office