Word: curran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to be a very difficult decision to deal with," William J. Curran, Lee Professor of Legal Medicine, said yesterday. "It's a good basic legal principle to be able to refuse treatment. But this is not always in the best interest of the patient. They are making rulings that seem to be helping the rights of people, but don't seem to be helping their welfare," he added...
...Curran said the decision overreacts to the problem of doctors over-prescribing drugs to quiet down patients, and could cause an overreaction in the opposite direction, with patients refusing clearly helpful medication...
Final verdict: no crime, much chaos in Carter finances very nickel and every peanut have been traced into and out of the warehouse, and no funds were unlawfully diverted in either direction." With that exculpatory conclusion, Special Counsel Paul J. Curran last week wrapped up his exhaustive, seven-month dig through the tangled finances of the Carter family peanut warehouse. There was "no evidence whatsoever" of criminal financial maneuvers by Jimmy or Billy Carter, said Curran, and "no indictment can or should be brought against anyone...
...Curran's words came as good news for Jimmy Carter, long bedeviled by unproven accusations of financial misdealing and even coverup. The disclosures of banking shenanigans that forced Bert Lance's resignation as Director of the Office of Management and Budget two years ago and finally ended in his indictment last May, had aroused suspicions that the Carters had illegally diverted family funds, including money borrowed from Lance's bank, to Jimmy's campaign treasury. The charges became so persistent that then Attorney General Griffin Bell reluctantly announced he would appoint a Watergate-style investigator. Last...
...Curran and his team of three lawyers, four FBI agents and four investigative accountants pored through 80,000 bank and business documents and took 3,800 pages of testimony from 64 witnesses before a federal grand jury in Atlanta. The 180-page public version of Curran's report (a fuller version, with transcripts of testimony before the grand jury in Atlanta, remains sealed) demonstrates beyond serious challenge that no family or loan funds were siphoned into Carter's 1976 presidential campaign. More narrowly, it finds that Presidential Adman Gerald Rafshoon did not borrow from any bank...