Word: indictibility
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...easily to Poindexter: he has grumbled to friends that he considers the hearings a politically motivated show to be stoically endured. He is more worried about the investigation conducted by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. Though Poindexter will testify this week under a grant of limited immunity, Walsh could still indict him on the basis of evidence gathered separately. Friends say Poindexter believes he is indeed in danger of indictment...
...uttered a number of racial insults. Weeks took out an unlicensed pistol, according to police, and shot Zilimbinaks dead. Like Goetz, Weeks slipped away unnoticed. Unlike Goetz, he did not turn himself in or confess. Police finally tracked him down six years later. The grand jury refused to indict him, and so he went free. There were few headlines, and the case was quickly forgotten...
...others say the blame cannot be placed on only one sector of society. "I don't subscribe to the notion that youth of America has been brought up to worship the almighty dollar," Fleischman says. "I don't think you can indict an entire generation, or a society...
Thus ended the long ordeal of Raymond Donovan, the first U.S. Cabinet member to be indicted while in office. Almost from the time of his confirmation as Secretary of Labor in 1981, Donovan was plagued by allegations that he had maintained close ties with mobsters while he was a construction executive in New Jersey. A special prosecutor investigated him twice and concluded each time that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to indict Donovan for anything. Nonetheless, in 1984 Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola persuaded a grand jury to indict Donovan and the other defendants on charges of larceny and fraud...
...these included several CIA agents and former Ambassador to Costa Rica Lewis Tambs. Democratic Congressman Louis Stokes of Ohio pointed out that all drew Government salaries paid out of appropriated funds. Committee members appeared to be trying to build a record that Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh might use to indict Secord for conspiracy to violate the Boland amendment...