Word: conviction
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...matter, Marvin Collins, did not criticize the pardon with the same vehemence as federal prosecutors did in Clinton's case. Indeed, he called Cox a good candidate for an eventual pardon. But Collins did question the timing. The Justice Department usually waits five years after a convict finishes his sentence before recommending a pardon. At the time the pardon was given, Collins called it "premature" because the five years had not yet elapsed...
Very rarely does the Wall Street Journal get to talk about matters of the heart. So when it got the chance, the chronicler of high finance went for it with a tabloid's hunger for gossipy detail. The subject: LEONA HELMSLEY, 80. The hotelier and ex-convict had been telling confidants that she was dating her real estate empire's vice chairman, Patrick Ward, 45, and that the two were considering marriage. Apparently, she was totally unaware, until an associate told her, that Ward is gay. Ward left the company in late January but only after purchasing a 60-unit...
...betrayed powerful people with long reaches. All that stands between them and a hit man's bullet is the Justice Department, and defense lawyers will try to rattle their credibility by arguing that they will say anything to protect themselves. Of course the U.S. hopes their compelling evidence will convict the four men currently on trial. But the real target is still bin Laden, indicted in November 1998 on 238 counts of conspiracy and still out there, masterminding the unending Jihadist threat of terror. Investigators know from the details piling up in New York how his organization works. But what...
...southwestern Scotland for every scrap of debris from Pan Am Flight 103, which blew up on Dec. 21, 1988 and crashed in a horrific fireball on the town of Lockerbie. The evidence-10,232 pages of testimony, 235 witnesses-was enough for the court to convict Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, 48, for the murder of 270 people and sentence him to life imprisonment in a Scottish jail. His co-defendant, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, 44, was found not guilty...
...actually believes Ray will pounce as soon as the moving van pulls away from the White House. Clinton prefers to take his chances fighting, as he has so many times before. One reason is that an overwhelmingly Democratic Washington jury is not likely to convict him (remember, even a Republican Senate didn't). But there's a more compelling, unspoken reason he doesn't want Bush's get-out-of-jail-free card. A pardon is the one thing you can't weasel out of. It carries with it the unmistakable implication of guilt, yet there's no precedent...