Word: generality
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PLEASE SEE SPENCER LEE FROM ALBANY WHEN HE REQUESTS AN APPOINTMENT. This terse handwritten note from Jimmy Carter to Attorney General Griffin Bell lay forgotten for 19 months in a filing cabinet at the Justice Department. Last week it emerged at the center of a mystery that threatened to embarrass Carter and some of his closest associates...
...week later Hardin decided that he should tell Carter about the offer. During a five-minute meeting, Carter urged Hardin to report any future contacts with Vesco's emissaries to the Justice Department and scrawled a message to Attorney General Bell?the same note that surfaced last week. Then, so the White House says, the President pushed the matter from his mind. What happened to the note next is unclear. Bell says he never received it. Neither Lee nor any other Vesco representative ever called on Bell...
Special Counsel Vincent Alto predicted last June that his investigation of fraud, theft and mismanagement in the General Services Administration would result in scores of indictments in about eight weeks. But eight weeks passed, and the score was still zero. At the end of August, GSA investigators said that a packet of indictments would be handed down within a fortnight. A fortnight passed, but there still were no indictments. Last week Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti indicated to a Senate subcommittee on federal spending practices that the GSA probe had been stalled, and indictments could be delayed for another eight...
...biggest money scandal in the history of the Federal Government." But Civiletti told Chiles' subcommittee last week, "We do not know from the evidence gathered to date just how far the wrongdoing extends or whether at any level corruption is pervasive." Still, a report to the subcommittee from Comptroller General Elmer Staats estimated that fraudulent practices by bureaucrats in the GSA and other agencies is costing the Government anywhere from $2.5 billion to $25 billion a year. Complained Staats: "The Justice Department has not done enough...
Last week George Martinez, the newspaper heiress's attorney, sent a pardon application to Attorney General Griffin Bell. After reviewing her case?a process that could take as long as 90 days ?Bell will pass on his recommendations to President Carter, who will make the final decision. Trying to do her bit, Patty sometimes wears a T shirt that reads PARDON ME on the front and, on the back, BEING KIDNAPED MEANS ALWAYS HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY...