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...ONCE, Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell and his beleaguered Justice Department seemed to be fulfilling their legislated mandates when the indictments of former FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III and two of his former top-level aides came down last week. The felony charges stemmed from an illegal wiretapping and break-in operation conducted without court warrants against the Weather Underground in the early '70s by the FBI's New York field office. A federal grand jury apparently concluded that Gray and two of his high-ranking assistants, W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller, had authorized the unlawful surveillance activities...
...JOHN GRIFFIN (goalie)--This relatively inexperienced junior netminder has a big pair of shoes to fill with the departure of All-American Dan Mackesey. Although he has two varsity letters under his belt, Griffin logged only 53 minutes in the nets last season...
...light sentence, the U.S. Attorney for Houston, J.A. ("Tony") Canales, himself a Mexican American, brought federal charges against Denson, Orlando and a third policeman, Joseph Janish, 24, on charges of conspiracy and violating Torres' civil rights. He acted under a new Justice Department policy inaugurated by Attorney General Griffin Bell that allows federal trials for defendants previously tried at the state level when this is necessary "to vindicate broader principles...
...into Lance's loose banking practices is the most threatening to him. The investigation, which mostly involves charges that have been aired in the press and looked into by a Senate committee, is being directed by a trio of lawyers within the Justice Department, named by Attorney General Griffin Bell last November. The lawyers and their aides have presented some evidence in the glacially slow-moving investigation to a grand jury in Atlanta, since that is the area in which any law violation would have occurred...
...subcommittee during the ITT hearings. In return for dropping possible perjury charges against Hendrix, the Justice Department required Hendrix to cooperate fully with its fledgling ITT probe in subsequent months. Then came the Carter administration's Agnewesque deal with former CIA director Richard Henns last October 31. Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell at that time claimed "national security" considerations required him to allow the former superspook a nolo contendere plea to two counts of the same misdemeanor charge brought against Hendrix. The price Helms paid for this arrangement added a new dimension to the term "plea-bargain:" a pro forma pledge...