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...asking the panel to name a prosecutor, Attorney General William French Smith sought to limit the inquiry to two allegations: that the Labor Secretary was present in 1977 when his former firm, Schiavone Construction Co., paid a $2,000 bribe to a union official; and that Donovan was untruthful at his Senate confirmation hearings. The judges, however, empowered Silverman to investigate "any other allegation or evidence of violation of any federal criminal law by Secretary Donovan." Unlike the Justice Department in its inquiry, Silverman will have authority to grant legal immunity to any key prosecution witnesses. Should the inquiry find...
...Human Resources Committee by the FBI and the Justice Department is turning out to be curiously incomplete. Indeed, the Justice Department last week opened a new investigation into old charges that Donovan was present when officers of the New Jersey construction company that he partly owned allegedly paid a bribe to a union leader. The new probe, launched by Attorney General William French Smith at the urging of Brooklyn Prosecutor Thomas P. Puccio, is the first step required under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act to determine whether the Justice Department must appoint a special prosecutor to examine the evidence...
...easy to obtain. A criminal typically combs newspaper obituary columns for a suitable death and writes to the deceased's home town for a copy of the birth certificate, the most useful document required to get a passport. Some thieves steal valid passports from unwary travelers. Others bribe U.S. consular employees to issue visas, which citizens of all foreign countries except Canada need to enter...
...cash, and skip town. Dealers regard the forfeited bail as merely a cost of doing business. If a prosecutor's case is airtight, money can sometimes pry it open. "We pay for what we need as we need it," one lawyer bragged to TIME. "If we can't bribe the cop, we try to bribe the prosecutor and, if we can't get the prosecutor, we try to buy the judge...
...officially left the Government in 1976, when the naval intelligence branch for which he was working, known as Task Force 157, was being disbanded by Navy Rear Admiral Bobby Inman. Wilson tried to persuade Inman to save Task Force 157 by offering what Inman took to be a bribe; the admiral, offended, immediately decided to abolish the operation. In 1980 Wilson was indicted on charges of illegally shipping explosives to Libya. He has been a fugitive, mainly in Tripoli, since then. In a series of articles over the past five months, the New York Times has described how Wilson...