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...Florida. So instead of assessing cane growers like Fanjul, Dole struck a compromise to take $200 million from the general treasury for Everglades restoration and thus scored a threefer. Dole could still lay claim to caring about the Everglades, but his contributors could dodge the costs of the cleanup even as they continued to profit from the federal sugar program...
Whenever scandal has rocked the White House, Bruce Lindsey has been at the center of the cleanup effort, calling around his native Arkansas to gather information and enlist allies, devising legal strategy with the President's other lawyers, steering journalists away from negative conclusions and soothing the President just by being there, ready to watch a movie or play a game of hearts...
...progress--or lack of it--in the cleanup efforts is also in sharp dispute. Some initial skeptics took heart from the high caliber of FBI agents hired by the union: Robert Luskin, a former federal organized-crime prosecutor; Douglas Gow, formerly the No. 2 man at the FBI; and a fleet of seasoned former agents. They insist they are totally independent of Coia. Critics point out that they are paid by the union, which Coia still heads...
Conceding that Friday's move was a step in the right direction, some investigators and officials in the field nonetheless contend that it is another case of the cleanup team's doing the barest minimum necessary to keep the feds at bay. The Buffalo local, they say, is such a well-known Cosa Nostra fortress--and so prominently featured in the Justice Department's original complaint--that union investigators had to act. Also, some of the ousted officials took with them large life-insurance policies with immediate cash value. Those officials also dropped a lawsuit against the international union that...
...critics' case: the present deal makes it difficult and in some cases (only a few, says Coffey) impossible for FBI field agents to pass evidence against suspected mobsters to the people responsible for booting them out of the union. Leaving Coia to run the union during the cleanup was at best a bad error of judgment, given the evidence linking him and his father, who also held a top union job, to organized crime. Moreover, a number of events cast doubt on the integrity of the cleanup effort: in New York, Salvatore Lanza, identified with Cosa Nostra in the original...