Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STAFF WRITERS: Guy Garcia, Christine Gorman, Emily Mitchell, Alex Prud'homme CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Katherine Mihok, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, Nancy McD. Chase, Georgia Harbison, Anne Hopkins, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Sidney Urquhart...
...have a clear conscience." So said the former President of Peru, Alan Garcia Perez, now a Senator for Life, before the Chamber of Deputies mustered a narrow majority last week to begin proceedings to lift his congressional immunity from prosecution on charges that he embezzled $500,000 from public coffers and evaded taxes...
Doubt was first cast on Garcia last April when House Deputy Fernando Olivera charged that Garcia had stolen $50 million from the treasury while serving as President. Olivera maintained that Garcia channeled the funds through the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Olivera's charges have yet to be substantiated, but the ensuing publicity made Garcia one of the most prominent politicians to be touched by the B.C.C.I. scandal...
...certain, however, that he will be found guilty of embezzlement. Before there is a trial, the House vote on immunity must first be repeated in the Senate. If formal charges are then brought, Garcia's case will be tried in the Supreme Court -- which is packed with his own appointees...
STAFF WRITERS: Guy Garcia, Christine Gorman, Emily Mitchell, Alex Prud'homme...