WASHINGTON -- Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan and others ensnared in various White House independent counsel investigations have joined former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in seeking taxpayer reimbursement for their legal bills.

The bills could total up to $7.8 million, according to a report in Wednesday's editions of the New York Post. The figures were revealed in court papers unsealed by a special federal appeals court in Washington.

Twenty-seven people involved in various Clinton-related investigations -- some of them minor players -- have sought reimbursement of their legal expenses, the Post reported.

The independent counsel law allows for such reimbursement as long as the probe did not result in the applicant's indictment.