The law creating the role, forged in the late 1970s, was about to expire in 1994 when Clinton renewed it, against the warning of former President George Bush. Five weeks later, a panel of three federal judges put Starr to work investigating The Whitewater Scandal. The Whitewater case involved a defunct corporation called Whitewater Development that dealt with real estate, and Madison Guaranty, a bankrupt savings and loan. Allegedly, President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton were enmeshed in some illegal dealings with these firms. Starr, following his nose, began turning up more and more activities of persons related to the case that he thought should be pursued. He began investigating Webster Hubbell, the former deputy attorney general and a partner in Hillary Clinton's law firm, for fraud and tax evasion. He also accused Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker and James and Susan McDougal, longstanding business partners of President Clinton, of fraud. All were eventually convicted of wrongdoing or entered pleas, which led to the unseating and imprisonment of Governor Tucker and jail time for others as well. Quite a few others were also brought down in the process--13 in all. Starr also sought testimony from Susan McDougal in front of an Arkansas grand jury regarding the Clinton's involvement in Whitewater, but she refused. She went to jail for contempt of court. Starr later pursued Hubbell, his wife, their accountant, and their tax attorney in 1998 for tax evasion in what some thought was a hardball move to get Hubbell to confess wrongdoing on the part of the Clintons. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton was caught up in yet another case. Paula Corbin Jones had filed a sexual harassment suit against the president claiming that he asked her for sexual favors in a hotel room. Though the case was eventually dropped, a number of women were called to the stand to testify whether or not they had sexual encounters with the president. One of the witnesses was Monica Lewinsky, a young White House intern. When asked under oath if this was true, both she and Clinton denied it. In a move that riled up the American public, Starr in January of 1998 revealed that Clinton may have lied under oath and pressured Lewinsky to lie in court to protect himself. If this was proven to be true, the president would be guilty of perjury. Immediately, more cries of impeachment were heard, but Republicans backed off when the president's approval ratings soared up to 80 percent in some polls. After that allegation, Starr focused his energies on trying to prove whether or not the president lied about his relationship with Lewinsky.