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...their files before the holidays. "Today, it's administrative housekeeping," the message says. "In January, it could be improper destruction of evidence." Quattrone replied, "I strongly advise you to follow these procedures." Days earlier, company lawyers had told him CSFB had been issued a subpoena. His lawyer, John Keker, says Quattrone is innocent. CSFB, which paid $100 million to settle the ipo charges, declined to comment. Quattrone resigned in March...
...jury in Washington rendered a judgment on retired Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. But it was a verdict equivocal enough for both the defendant and the prosecutor to hail it. North proclaimed a "partial vindication" because he was found not guilty of nine felony charges. Prosecutor John W. Keker asserted that North's convictions on three other counts demonstrated "the principle that no man is above...
...classic courtroom confrontation: defendant and prosecutor, both decorated Marine veterans of Viet Nam, locked in a bitter cross-examination. The Oliver North who endured four days of acerbic questioning by prosecutor John Keker last week did not come across as a selfless patriot used by superiors to carry out a covert plan for assisting the Nicaraguan rebels in defiance of a congressional ban. Instead, North emerged as an evasive witness with a selective memory and unusual personal finances...
...happened to have that much cash lying around elicited muffled laughter from the courtroom audience. "When I would come home on Friday . . . I would take my change out of my pocket and put it in that steel box I'd been issued as a midshipman." When Keker expressed his disbelief, North added another explanation: proceeds from a 1964 insurance settlement after an automobile accident in which he suffered a serious knee injury...
PROSECUTOR John Keker recently accused North of destroying classified government documents and telling "100 percent, old fashioned, all-American lies." For example, North allegedly fabricated a story about a box of cash in his bedroom to cover for his skimming money from illicit Contra...