Saturday April 7 12:40 AM ET
Clinton Pays Fine in Law Suspension

LITTLE ROCK (AP) - Former President Clinton has paid a $25,000 fine that was part of a sanction in which his Arkansas law license was suspended for five years.

Clinton paid the fine with a personal check on March 21, said Marie-Bernarde Miller, the lawyer who handled a disbarment lawsuit brought by a committee of the Arkansas Supreme Court.

``The case is completed,'' Miller said Friday.

Clinton agreed Jan. 19 to the fine and suspension as part of an understanding with Independent Counsel Robert Ray to end the Monica Lewinsky investigation.

The agreement also satisfied the legal effort by the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct to disbar Clinton for giving misleading testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. No deadline was set for Clinton to pay the fine.

The fine was intended to cover the committee's cost to pay Miller and another lawyer involved in bringing the case against Clinton.

``I think the outcome was a very good resolution of this case,'' Miller said. ``The penalty that the president received - a five-year suspension to take effect while he was a sitting president and a $25,000 fine - was, I think, an acceptable penalty.''

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