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August 26, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Independent Counsel Robert Ray came to the federal courthouse as a new grand jury investigating President Bill Clinton met for several hours. Ray and several prosecutors who work for him carried boxes of documents into the third-floor area Thursday where five grand juries were conducting business, the Clinton grand jury among them. Ray did not comment on his presence at the courthouse. In a statement Wednesday responding to Democratic criticism, Ray said the case involves "serious allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice by the President of the United States." Ray confirmed last week that the grand jury, impaneled July 11, would delve into Clinton's actions in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The jurors also met Tuesday. Ray has said his duties include considering whether to seek an indictment of the president after he leaves office. His predecessor, Ken Starr, conducted a grand jury probe through most of 1998, leaving voluminous files of evidence and testimony that could be used in the current grand jury probe. The Starr investigation led to Clinton's impeachment by the House.
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