Inquiry Focuses on Fees Paid To Hillary Clinton

By Drew Lindsay

New York's state attorney general will decide soon whether to close or to widen a politically charged inquiry into compensation paid to Hillary Rodham Clinton and several prominent educators by a leading education think tank, a spokesman for his office said last week.

At issue is $102,000 earned by Mrs. Clinton in 1991 as a consultant for the National Center on Education and the Economy, a not-for-profit education-reform and policymaking group based in Rochester, N.Y.

State investigators are also examining payments made to Michael Cohen, now an adviser to U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley; David W. Hornbeck, now the Philadelphia schools superintendent; and Marc Tucker, the...