Editing Jimmy Carter (section)

=== Allegations and investigations ===
On September 21, 1977, the Carter administration's OMB director [[Bert Lance]] resigned amid allegations of improper banking activities before his tenure.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/us/politics/bert-lance-carter-adviser-dies-at-82.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/us/politics/bert-lance-carter-adviser-dies-at-82.html |archive-date=January 3, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Bert Lance, Carter Adviser, Dies at 82|first1=Robert D. Jr.|last1=Hershey |date=August 15, 2013|access-date=September 1, 2021|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[United States Attorney General]] [[Griffin Bell]] appointed [[Paul J. Curran]] as a special counsel to investigate loans made to the peanut business Carter owned by a bank controlled by Lance,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916712-1,00.html |title=I Have a Job to Do |date=April 2, 1979 |magazine=Time |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025175059/https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916712-1,00.html|archive-date=October 25, 2012 |access-date=September 1, 2021}}</ref>{{efn|Curran also investigated President Jimmy Carter's family peanut business for the Justice Department in 1979, and thus became the first lawyer to examine a sitting president under oath.}} and Carter became the first sitting president to testify under oath as part of an investigation of him.<ref>{{cite news |last=McFadden |first=Robert D. |author-link=Robert D. McFadden |date=September 6, 2008 |title=Paul Curran, 75, Corruption Foe, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/nyregion/07curran.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425033130/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/nyregion/07curran.html |archive-date=April 25, 2009 |access-date=September 6, 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul J. Curran, Special Counsel, Litigation, Kaye Scholer. |url=https://www.kayescholer.com/web.nsf/sl/96D840B79AF05CE785256CE20076DA99 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051018150259/https://www.kayescholer.com/web.nsf/sl/96D840B79AF05CE785256CE20076DA99 |archive-date=October 18, 2005 |access-date=September 1, 2021}}</ref> In October 1979, Curran announced that no evidence had been found to support allegations that funds loaned from the National Bank of Georgia had been diverted to Carter's 1976 presidential campaign, ending the investigation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Carter's Business Cleared in Inquiry on Campaign Funds |last=Pound |first=Edward T. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/17/archives/carters-business-cleared-in-inquiry-on-campaign-funds-indictments.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A1 |date=October 17, 1979 |access-date=September 7, 2008 |archive-date=July 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722223222/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/17/archives/carters-business-cleared-in-inquiry-on-campaign-funds-indictments.html |url-status=live}}</ref>