Word: indictments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honesty, years of service and adherence to the rules. Last Thursday it was Jim Wright's turn before the TV cameras. The House Speaker's passionate statement was reminiscent of other notable political apologias: Richard Nixon's I-am-not-a-crook, Ed Meese's They-did-not-indict-me and, most recently, John Tower's I-am-a-man-of-some- discipline. Like the others, Wright's performance only emphasized how much trouble...
...facts were not new, but the judgment stung all the same. Six months after Edwin Meese declared himself "completely vindicated" by a special prosecutor's decision not to indict him on charges of misconduct, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility last week issued a scathing report on the former Attorney General's ethics. Its key conclusion: if Meese were still in office, "disciplinary action" should be taken against him for "conduct which should not be tolerated of any government employee, especially not the Attorney General." Among Meese's misdeeds cited in the report: doing favors for chum...
...traders who were defrauding customers of millions of dollars, broke into the open when the Justice Department reportedly began issuing subpoenas to at least 40 people connected with the Chicago markets. By the time they finish gathering evidence in the next few weeks, federal prosecutors may be able to indict 100 or more commodities brokers and traders on felony charges of fraud and racketeering...
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition. A double whammy is in store for the new occupant of this post, created two years ago to coordinate and streamline the world's biggest purchasing program ($160 billion a year). A federal grand jury is expected soon to indict up to a dozen defense contractors, consultants and former Pentagon officials for fraud. Moreover, budgetary pressures will force the nation's No. 1 shopper to prune as much as $400 billion from purchases over the next five years. One indication of how difficult the job can be: Richard Godwin, the first man to hold...
That question was debated in Washington last summer, when the Reagan Administration learned that U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani was seeking to indict the Marcoses. State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer argued that prosecuting the Marcoses would make it more difficult to offer protective deals to other foreign leaders who have been helpful to the U.S. Earlier this year, the Reagan Administration offered to drop two federal drug indictments brought against Manuel Noriega in Florida if he would leave Panama. Now, says a Noriega confidant, the drug-running general "is telling everybody that this shows he was smart...