Word: donalds
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...Senators ran into another dead-end Tuesday, in the shape of former DNC chairman Donald L. Fowler. Although Fowler knew at the time that the now-infamous Buddhist temple event was "in essence" a fund-raiser, he insists the Vice President did not share that wisdom. Fowler also claimed he couldn't recall asking the CIA to recommend White House access for the rich and very shady donor Roger Tamraz, who wanted to push a Mideast oil pipeline deal. "Memory is fallible," said the former Democratic chief...
After spending almost three years and more than $9 million, Donald Smaltz became the first among the independent counsels examining the behavior of the Clinton Administration to bring charges against his main quarry. Smaltz threw a whole catalog at Espy, producing multiple charges out of a small set of incidents. The 39 criminal counts accuse Espy of accepting gifts and favors from government-regulated businesses and then trying to cover...
...faded memory or no memory at all; but her life and death are the stuff of movie legend, and a poignant cautionary tale for the audience that adored her. Thus even before she gets an hour-long Biography, she is the subject of a careful, doting biography--film historian Donald Bogle's Dorothy Dandridge (Amistad Press; 613 pages; $27.95)--and of a contest among black stars to play her onscreen. It is the hottest bio-pic property for a black actress since Lady Sings the Blues, the story of Billie Holiday--a doomed figure Dandridge had for years yearned...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Donald Smaltz got what he came for ? a 39-count indictment of ex-Clinton cabinet member Mike Espy, for open-palming agribusiness lobbyists and then trying to cover his tracks. But at a cost of three years and over $9 million, was the witchhunt worth America's time...
WASHINGTON: The exhaustive investigation into former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy has been an embarrassment for Janet Reno in both its aggressive methods and its distinct lack of results. But after almost three years and untold millions of dollars, independent counsel Donald Smaltz has finally netted the big one: an indictment of Espy himself for 39 counts of illegally soliciting and accepting gifts, trips, sports tickets, and other favors totaling $35,000 ? from companies over which he, as USDA head, had regulatory power...