NBC News reports:
Ken Starr, who led the Whitewater investigation into former President Bill Clinton, died Tuesday at 76, his family said in a statement. Starr died in Houston of complications from surgery, the statement said.
Starr was nominated by former President Ronald Reagan for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington, D.C., circuit, and he served as U.S. solicitor general under then-President George H.W. Bush.
But he is best known for leading Whitewater, the expansive investigation that began as a probe of real estate investments by then-President Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton, but branched out to encompass numerous other areas — including the notorious Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.
Read the full article. In the 2018 video below, Starr claimed to regret the Clinton investigation.
#BREAKING – Ken Starr, the former president of Baylor University who earned nationwide notoriety as the independent counsel who headed the investigation that led to the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton, died Tuesday after a lengthy illness. https://t.co/872itjNJOx
— KWTX News 10 (@kwtx) September 13, 2022
BREAKING: Ken Starr, the lawyer who led the partisan investigations into President Bill Clinton and served on the legal team defending Donald Trump from impeachment, dies at age 76.
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) September 13, 2022
Ken Starr, the independent counsel who investigated Bill Clinton and later served as a member of Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team has died of complications from surgery, according to a statement from his family and Baylor University. He was 76.
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) September 13, 2022
“Ken Starr was stripped of his presidency at Baylor University in 2016, accused of overseeing an administration that ignored a campus sexual assault scandal.” https://t.co/yDLAQ5Vfs2
— Avery Flynn (@AveryFlynn) September 13, 2022