Were any Clinton family members indicted after their depositions?
Executive summary
No current reporting in the provided sources shows any Clinton family member was criminally indicted as a direct result of depositions tied to the Monica Lewinsky/Paula Jones era; Bill Clinton was impeached by the House on perjury and obstruction charges but “escaped indictment” after negotiating with the independent counsel, according to legal summaries [1] [2]. Historical probes like Whitewater led to many indictments of associates but only limited convictions tied to the Clintons themselves, per the Encyclopedia of Arkansas [3].
1. What “depositions” and which subpoenas are we talking about?
The question likely references the late-1990s depositions and grand-jury testimony around the Paula Jones civil suit and the Monica Lewinsky matter, which fed Independent Counsel Ken Starr’s investigation and the Starr Report that the House used in its impeachment inquiry [4] [1]. More recent congressional activity includes subpoenas and proposed subpoenas in 2025 by House Republicans for Bill and Hillary Clinton tied to other investigations [5], but those are subpoenas, not indictments, and postdate the 1990s legal disputes.
2. Outcome for Bill Clinton after his deposition and grand-jury testimony
Bill Clinton’s false testimony in the Lewinsky and Jones-related proceedings was central to the Starr investigation and the House impeachment articles. The House adopted two articles — perjury and obstruction of justice — and impeached him in December 1998; the Senate acquitted him, and the Department of Justice’s process did not produce a criminal indictment of the former president, with commentators and legal guides noting he “escaped indictment” after negotiations with the independent counsel [1] [2].
3. Were other Clinton family members indicted after related probes?
Contemporary history and legal summaries provided here show that the Whitewater and related probes did lead to indictments and convictions of several associates and partners, and those investigations swept up many people including “family members (including children) of those who were accused,” but the Encyclopedia of Arkansas reports that only one conviction was tied by evidence to either of the Clintons themselves — a bank president who pled to misdemeanors — and it does not report indictments of Bill or Hillary Clinton arising directly from their depositions [3].
4. Fact-checking claims that Hillary Clinton was indicted
Independent fact-checking and reporting compiled in these sources find no credible record of a criminal indictment of Hillary Clinton tied to the Lewinsky/Jones probe; PolitiFact explicitly reported finding “no court records, news reports or other credible sources to corroborate that Clinton was indicted” [6]. The available legal encyclopedias and guides likewise do not list an indictment of Hillary Clinton stemming from those depositions [4] [1].
5. Context: indictments versus impeachment and political narratives
Legal and historical sources distinguish impeachment (a political process resulting in a House vote and Senate trial) from criminal indictment (a judicial charging instrument). Bill Clinton was impeached in the House but not criminally indicted; some associates were criminally charged in related investigations [1] [3]. Political actors and public claims have sometimes conflated or conflated terms — for example, social posts have incorrectly asserted indictments where none exist, which fact-checkers debunk [6].
6. Recent developments and limits of the record provided
The Oversight Committee announced subpoenas in 2025 aimed at Bill and Hillary Clinton as part of newer investigative activity [5]. These are congressional subpoena actions, not indictments, and the sources here do not report any resulting criminal charges against Clinton family members from those 2025 subpoenas. Available sources do not mention any indictment of a Clinton family member directly flowing from the depositions discussed in the 1990s or from the 2025 subpoenas beyond what is noted above [5] [3] [1].
Limitations and competing viewpoints: the provided sources focus on historical reporting, legal summaries and fact-checking; they document impeachment, associate indictments, and the lack of evidence for Hillary Clinton’s indictment [4] [3] [6] [2]. Other outlets or later court records not included among these snippets might add details; those are not found in current reporting supplied here.