Linda Tripp, whose tapes were pivotal in Clinton impeachment scandal, dies

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10. Tripp was the only central figure in the Starr saga to be criminally charged.

Tripp Indicted on Charges of Wiretapping
By Saundra Torry and Raja Mishra
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, July 31, 1999; Page A1

Linda R. Tripp, whose secret telephone tapes of Monica S. Lewinsky titillated and dismayed the nation and ultimately led to President Clinton's impeachment, was indicted yesterday in Maryland on criminal charges of illegal wiretapping.

After a 13-month investigation, Tripp, 49, who lives in Columbia, was indicted on two counts of violating a rarely used Maryland law that makes it a crime to record telephone conversations without the consent of all parties. Tripp has said she recorded more than two dozen phone conversations with Lewinsky in 1997. She also has said she had been warned during that period that secret taping in Maryland was illegal.

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With yesterday's indictment, Tripp became the only one among the central figures in the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal to be criminally charged. Clinton was impeached but acquitted by the Senate, and Lewinsky received an unusually broad grant of immunity from independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr.

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