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McDougal September 14, 1998 Web posted at: 2:21 a.m. EDT (0621 GMT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Whitewater witness James McDougal did not have access to his heart medication in the hours before he died in prison, a federal government report revealed.
McDougal, a former business partner of President Clinton who later agreed to testify for Independent Counsel Ken Starr, also was not seen by a doctor although he complained of feeling ill the day before his death, according to a report obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram under the Freedom of Information Act.
McDougal was moved from his regular cell to solitary confinement at the Federal Medical Center prison in Fort Worth a day before his death as punishment for failing to provide a urine sample for a drug test.
McDougal had complained of being unable to provide urine for drug tests because of the medications he took for a variety of ailments.
During the move, guards did not find McDougal's heart medication because they did not want to search McDougal's regular cell and disturb his sleeping cell mate, the report said.
One of the medicines, nitroglycerin, could have bought McDougal some time after he suffered a heart attack, a prison official who asked not to be identified said in the Sunday paper.
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