Accountant. Attorney. Tax expert. Those are the solidly mainstream credentials of Hugh Sprunt, JD/MBA '79. But it's his "hobby" --questioning the official account of the death of White House aide Vincent Foster--that has put Sprunt in the spotlight.
Author of a 340-page report on the July 1993 gunshot death, Sprunt made the cover of the New York Times Magazine earlier this year. He has also published 13 articles on the Foster case and been a guest on more than 150 talk-radio programs. And that's just for starters. "I figure Andy Warhol owes me at least another 14 minutes," he says.
Sprunt, an Arkansas native who lives in Farmers Branch, Texas, denies he is a "Clinton Crazy," as the Times Magazine put it. But he won't quibble with the article's description of him as a "freelance obsessive." When Foster's death was ruled a suicide, Sprunt became suspicious; the details didn't match what he'd seen when his own grandfather killed himself using a similar handgun. He delved further into the case, and now thinks it likely that Foster was murdered. But all government investigators--including the FBI, the U.S. Park Police, two Republican-led congressional committees and two independent counsels--disagree.
