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...District Court Judge Gerhard Gesell is known as a tough sentencer, but he turned surprisingly lenient last week. Though Gesell could have sent former Lieut. Colonel Oliver North to prison for ten years for his role in the Iran- contra affair, the judge declined to do so. Instead, after listening to North softly declare that he had grieved over his "mistakes," he handed North three suspended sentences, two years' probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours of community service in an antidrug program for inner-city youths. (The Navy promptly suspended North's $23,000-a-year pension...
WASHINGTON--A former top official from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is seeking immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony implicating former HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce in the scandal over influence peddling at the housing agency, sources said yesterday...
Dean earlier refused to testify, citing her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. She spent three years as Pierce's executive assistant, and has been described by former colleagues as wielding great influence at the agency...
Pierce told the subcommittee last month he had no direct role in funding decisions in the Section 8 or any other program. Since then, however, the Wall Street Journal has reported that Pierce intervened on behalf of several associates, including a former law partner. Subcommittee members have told Pierce, who has moved back to Manhattan to resume his law and business dealings, that they want to question him again...
Zhao points to the example of Liu Xiaobo, a former graduate student at Harvard who returned to China last month to take part in the demonstrations at Tienanmen Square. Liu was reportedly hustled into a car by a man in plainclothes on June 6, three days after the crackdown began...