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...Government did not indict any Bethlehem executives. Instead, U.S. Attorney John S. Martin Jr. concentrated only on the corporation and readily agreed with Bethlehem's counsel that a $200,000 punishment would be reasonable. "A five-year statute of limitations meant we could not go back beyond 1975," Martin explained. Furthermore, he said, he was unable to establish links between the conspirators and Bethlehem's top management. Contends Martin: "A corporate fine was more appropriate." On Aug. 25, Judge Robert Sweet is expected to announce the size of that fine...
...motion says the prosecutor "misstated to the grand jurors of an exculpatory nature," and "attempted to lead and did lead the Grand Jury to indict the defendant in an improper manner...
Abscam and Brilab, those FBI "sting" operations that sound like computer-named detergents, last week produced more indictments and against the biggest names yet. The Abscam (short for Arab scam) investigation led a federal grand jury in Brooklyn to indict Democratic Congressmen Frank Thompson of New Jersey and John Murphy of New York on charges of bribery and conspiracy. Brilab (for bribery labor) resulted in a New Orleans grand jury naming Mafia Kingfish Carlos ("Little Man") Marcello on counts of racketeering, conspiracy and fraud. So far, Abscam has led to indictments of five Congressmen, all accused of accepting bribes from...
...arrested Roberto Sandalo, 26, in Turin last April, they could hardly wait to quiz him about his activities in the terrorist Prima Lima (Front Line) group, a leftist organization second in notoriety only to the Red Brigades. Sandalo's testimony, they hoped, might enable them to catch and indict a few of his revolutionary comrades. It had a vastly greater effect. It threatened to topple the center-left coalition of Christian Democratic Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga, one of the most promising governments in Rome in many years. It transformed this week's regional and local elections from...
Stunned and saddened, leaders of Congress demanded all of the FBI evidence so they could conduct speedy investigations of their own to discipline or clear their accused colleagues. Just as adamantly, Justice Department officials insisted that grand juries must examine the evidence first, decide whom to indict for what, and send any criminal charges to trial. Simultaneous probes would only get in each other's way and make both branches of Government look inept, said Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, and in the end might let all of the suspects escape punishment. The new scandal was hardly another Watergate...