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After the Boston Globe reported that Harvard is looking to purchase TV and radio station WBZ’s nine-acre property on Soldier’s Field Road, Allston residents and the City of Boston say they are withholding judgment until the University’s plans for the land become more definite. On Saturday, the Boston Globe reported that WBZ-TV President and general manager Ed Piette said that talks between the University and the station had intensified recently, although they were nowhere near reaching an agreement. The CBS-owned station, which lies a short walk away from...
...judgment, handed down by Lord Justice Moses and Justice Sullivan, censured Robert Wardle, director of the SFO, for allowing threats made by Saudi officials to scupper the probe into allegations of bribery. The Blair government called a halt to that investigation in December 2006, a decision it insisted was made purely in the interest of national security. The court was scathingly unconvinced. "No one, whether within this country or outside, is entitled to interfere with the course of our justice," the judges ruled. "It is the failure of Government and [Wardle] to bear that essential principle in mind that justifies...
...probe, begun in July 2004, focused on the alleged payment of bribes by BAE in connection with its $60 billion "Al-Yamamah" arms deal agreed with Saudi Arabia in the mid-'80s. According to the High Court judgment, BAE sought in late 2005 to persuade Lord Goldsmith, then Britain's Attorney General, to call a halt to the inquiry, claiming it would sour relations between the U.K. and Saudi Arabia, and endanger future lucrative arms deals...
...When both the Attorney General and the SFO's Wardle resisted BAE's request for lenience, the Saudis turned up the heat. In 2006, the judgment states, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi Ambassador to Washington, warned Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's then-chief of staff, to shelve the investigation. Failure to do so, the Prince threatened, would weaken intelligence cooperation and wreck a $40 billion deal for BAE to supply Eurofighter Typhoon jets to the Saudis. Soon after government ministers made Wardle aware of the threat, the SFO's boss agreed to drop the case. "The Director...
...case before the High Court. More could follow. In the next few weeks, the court is expected to force the SFO to reevaluate its decision to scrap the probe, amid mounting pressure for it to revive the investigation. Right now, the SFO is "carefully considering the implications of the judgment and the way forward," a spokesman said. Lawyers acting for the pressure groups expect the government to appeal the ruling. Meanwhile, U.S. Department of Justice and Swiss authorities are continuing their own corruption probes into the arms deal...