Nominee Discloses Arrest, Child-Support Issue
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John W. Snow, President Bush’s nominee for Treasury secretary, was charged with driving under the influence in 1982 and settled a child- support case in 1991, the White House disclosed last night. The DUI charge, lodged in Utah along with a charge of an improper left turn, was dismissed. Terms of the child-support settlement were unavailable. A senior administration official said Snow, chairman and president of CSX Corp. of Richmond, informed White House lawyers about the DUI case but not the child-support case before his nomination Dec. 9. Snow disclosed the child-support matter “shortly after” he was nominated, the official said. The White House disclosed the cases after the Senate Finance |