Word: counseled
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...McElyea lost his job as general counsel of a major consumer-products company in 1996 supposedly because of downsizing--but he never knew for sure. It wasn't until five months ago that he finally found full-time work again, as general counsel of White Cap, a container maker based in Downers Grove, Ill.--but at a salary a third below the six-figure income he earned in his old job. Some prospective employers even refused to interview him, McElyea, 50, reports, although he asked for no more money than applicants with 10 to 15 years less experience. Meanwhile...
...hottest guessing game in town is figuring out how this nearly toothless body managed to do what volumes of editorial screeds, congressional bombast and urgent pleas from top FBI and Justice officials could not -- specifically, push Attorney General Janet Reno to the verge of naming a new independent counsel to investigate the financial maneuverings of the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign. The explanation, says an insider, is that an FEC audit of the campaign, which landed at Justice about three weeks ago, concluded that White House and campaign officials may have intentionally attempted to evade federal election laws by manipulating "issue...
...this significant? Because throughout the year, Reno has been able to ignore the entreaties of FBI director Louis Freeh, Justice campaign task-force chief Charles Labella, Common Cause and Republican leaders because, she has said, the case did not meet the independent-counsel law's test that there be "specific and credible charges" about the President or some other high official. While the FEC audit contains "no smoking guns, no great revelations," says a a lawyer familiar with the case, "the Justice Department bases its interpretation of the law on what the FEC says, and once they say something...
After six years in Clinton's White House, Gore has acquired complications galore. TIME has confirmed that Attorney General Janet Reno is reconsidering whether to seek the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate the Clinton-Gore fund-raising operation in 1996, including whether Gore made illegal telephone solicitations from the White House. Last December, Reno shut down a probe of about 45 Gore fund-raising calls on grounds that he had sought only so-called soft money--party-building funds--for the Democratic National Committee. After the cash came in, DNC officials funneled some of it into "hard-money...
...addition, I had real and serious concerns about an independent counsel investigation...that itself is under investigation...