Word: counseling
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Reports surfaced that Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr will ask the Clintons to give sworn interviews about the land deal at the heart of the scandal. The Clintons let it be known that they would cooperate...
Attorney General Janet Reno announced the opening of a preliminary criminal investigation into the complex finances of Commerce Secretary Ronald Brown, a step that could lead to the appointment of an independent counsel if the evidence warrants. Republicans have been pressing the Justice Department to look into allegations that Brown may have violated disclosure requirements and evaded taxes as a result of some complicated transactions with a former business partner. Brown's attorney predicted that the probe would find no violations...
...second thing to know is that he's not afraid to upset very large apple carts. Richard Nixon's reported gripe to his counsel John Dean about the too-vigilant "Jew boys" over in the sec was aimed partly at Sporkin, who was dogging the rogue financier Robert Vesco for an illegal $200,000 contribution to Nixon's re-election campaign. Eventually Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell pressured William Casey, then sec chairman and Sporkin's boss, to delay an investigation into Vesco's contribution until after Election Day. When Casey tried to lean on Sporkin, the latter resisted...
...Casey became head of the CIA and brought Sporkin along as general counsel. In that post he issued the famous legal finding that provided cover for the Reagan Administration's secret arms-for-hostages deal with Iran. Since being appointed to the federal bench by Reagan in 1986, Sporkin has made himself a name as a man with little patience for malfeasance by Big Business. "He's a rare judge who is sympathetic to the way the law intersects with consumer interests and investor interests," says consumer activist Ralph Nader. It was Sporkin at his most sulfurous who dismissed...
Murphy also said that the General Counsel ofthe Jimmy Fund agreed that the two cases should betreated differently...