Word: digenova
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that a perky anchorperson is talking about something called oral sex. The second, perhaps more lasting problem is the legal precedent set by this ballooning investigation. Until last week, the criticism of independent counsel Kenneth Starr went largely to his unchecked power. Former Republican independent counsel Joseph diGenova calls the whole setup "a constitutional monstrosity." Now we watch as a prosecutor gunning for a President uses tactics to dig up dirt that would make NYPD Blue's Detective Sipowicz blanch. Starr not only pulled a sting on a former White House intern but reportedly planned to wire...
...Scaife's ties to Pepperdine and groups interested in the outcome of his Whitewater probe but insists nonetheless that there's no conflict. Starr's deputy John Bates says, "It's not political but legal judgment that matters, and Starr's remains impeccable." At the very least, as Joseph DiGenova, a former independent counsel and U.S. Attorney in the Reagan Administration, points out, "It's another unfortunate circumstance which is unnecessarily distracting." DiGenova faults Starr too for continuing his $1-million-a-year law practice, which includes tobacco clients, and for speaking at Clinton-basher Pat Robertson's Regent University...
...Starr reversed himself and decided to stay on as counsel indefinitely. "I think there was a fairly broad-based sense that I had made a mistake," Starr said by way of explanation. But the damage had already been done. "He spilt the milk," said former federal prosecutor Joseph DiGenova. "He's picking...
...three-judge panel of the federal appeals bench named former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova to conduct the probe of senior Bush aides who have admitted they knew of the searches as they were occurring and did nothing to stop them. DiGenova must determine whether the Bush staff members in fact lied to State Department Inspector General Sherman Funk or violated Clinton's privacy with leaks. Regardless of the outcome, the tawdry passport affair will cloud Bush's last days, and perhaps someone's future...
...prison terms.) Unless Walsh can get the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the appeals-bench ruling, Poindexter is likely to benefit from the same reasoning applied to the North case. Walsh plans to take the case to the Supreme Court, but many experts expect him to lose. Says Joseph diGenova, the former U.S. attorney in Washington: "Congress didn't know the mess it was creating when it gave the witnesses immunity...