Word: greylord
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...separate, though often related, procedure: the use of criminals as witnesses. The De Lorean case was the Government's third defeat in the past four months in major trials involving witnesses with unsavory backgrounds. Earlier this month, in a Cook County, Ill., case that was part of the Greylord investigation of judicial corruption, Judge John G. Laurie was cleared of bribery and other charges in part because the jury did not believe testimony against him by several corrupt witnesses, including two police officers. And the first trial of Nevada Federal Judge Harry Claiborne ended in a hung jury...
Implicated in the scheme was Richard LeFevour, presiding judge of the First Municipal District. His name and those of the lawyers surfaced last week in the bribery trial of Cook County Circuit Judge John Murphy, 68, one of 18 Chicagoans indicted so far as a result of Operation Greylord, a three-year undercover FBI investigation. LeFevour, who has not been indicted, called the allegations "a pack of lies...