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...parte Quirin, the justices ruled that the Commander in Chief has the right to try unlawful combatants before a tribunal. But they also ruled that the defendants had a right to appeal their status in federal court. And the decision says nothing about detaining combatants indefinitely or denying them counsel. "To use Quirin to justify indefinite detention of Americans is to extend it far beyond the circumstances in which it was decided," says Silliman...
...Johnson, spokesman for the House committee looking into the ImClone stock sales, confirmed that investigators have interviewed Dr. Pasternak, and said they are trying to set up a meeting with Mariana Pasternak. They were scheduled to question Bacanovic this week, but he is seeking new counsel. "As the coincidences pile up," says Johnson, "the possibility that no one knew anything goes way down...
...tells TIME that the D.A. and the U.S. Treasury Department are separately probing and exchanging information on firms like Tyco that have slashed their taxes by incorporating in Bermuda and other offshore havens. Last Tuesday Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau journeyed to Washington to dine with David Aufhauser, general counsel of the Treasury Department, where they discussed offshore companies and possible money laundering...
...bank account of art dealer Alexander Apsis, who in turn moved much of the money to an account in the Bahamas. The D.A. had briefly investigated Tyco three years ago, looking into whether a Tyco director had fraudulently sold his $2.5 million Florida home to the company's general counsel. The D.A.'s office dropped that inquiry, but has reopened it as part of its wider Tyco investigation. Apsis' lawyer, Robert Katzberg, says his client "did nothing wrong and is cooperating completely with the D.A.'s investigation." Tyco says it is conducting an internal probe into allegations of misused funds...
Choosing a career in law is more valuable in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales told the graduating Harvard Law School (HLS) Class of 2002 yesterday...