Word: cid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest get-out-of-jail card ever." Rubino estimates that the government cut as many as 70 special deals to get testimony against the general. Tony Aizprua, the pilot whose plane landed on I-75, served no time at all, while Noriega's trusted bagman Lieut. Colonel Luis del Cid got his 70-year sentence reduced to a 10-year maximum. Another defendant who is presumably trying to cut a deal is Ricardo Bilonick, a Tulane-educated lawyer who was whisked back from Panama last week to face charges of running cocaine on his Panamanian cargo airline, Inair...
...least for the moment, they've decided to fish in the tuition pond. If they don't catch anything there, they might go back and send another CID about financial aid," he said...
Last summer and throughout the fall, the Justice Department sent out civil investigative demands (CID)--the civil equivalent to subpoenas--to one school after another...
...CID envelopes, according to Thomas W. Soybel, assistant college counsel at Dartmouth College, contained requests for numerous documents and "interrogatories," or lists of questions about the schools' financial aid, tuition and salary practices...
...Given the comprehensive nature of the CID and how much is at stake for [the colleges], they'll spend that much," Merkowitz says. "The CID hits the Ivy Leagues harder because they're larger, and there are a lot more people involved...