Secretary Brown died on a trade mission to Croatia , when the government plane he was on flew into a mountainside on April 3 in the 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash . This led to conservative accusations that Clinton had Brown murdered ; U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and others scoffed at this conspiracy theory . Soon after , Nolanda Hill declared that she had been engaging in a long-running affair with Brown
1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash
1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash
Commerce Department trade mission controversy