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WHEN THE POLICE CHIEF IN A CITY AS VIOLENCE plagued as Detroit pilfers megabucks from a crime-fighting fund, no judge is likely to be lenient. Last week former police chief William Hart was convicted of stealing $2.6 million dollars from his department, in part to procure lavish gifts for his three mistresses. More money bankrolled a $1,000-a-week lottery habit and renovations on a Candadian vacation cottage. During the TV movie-like trial, an ex-police officer reported seeing $20,000 fall out of a cracked ceiling in Hart's house. The former chief's escapades could...
...infamous Mafia code of omerta, or silence, has been taking a beating lately. Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, a witness against Gambino crime boss John Gotti in a New York City courtroom, is only the latest mobster to testify on the misdeeds of his cronies in exchange for lenient treatment. Last week Mafia gunmen appeared to send a brutal message to all would-be squealers by shooting and gravely wounding the sister of federal informer Peter (Fat Pete) Chiodo...
...prosecution case, based largely on testimony from former drug traffickers who have received lenient treatment for their cooperation, was weak on some key points, most notably the inability of Noriega's colleagues to agree on payoffs the general allegedly took from the cartel to protect the Darien lab. Although 15,000 boxes of documents were seized by U.S. troops during the 1989 invasion, the lone scrap of written evidence about Noriega's involvement in drugs was a piece of yellow notepaper with some scribbled words on it. As the defense pointed out, it could well have been notes...
...course, Harvard has come a long way since 1935. So I promise not to use JFK's pitiful application as yet another excuse to trash Harvard's still-lenient legacy admissions policies--as long as you promise not to use it to make loopy pro-legacy-favoritism arguments ("Well, Chauncy Fumpleroy III doesn't deserve to get in, but neither did JFK, and he did OK with his life..."). Deal...
Louie's Superette is popular among underage buyers because of its notoriously lenient approach to state drinking laws, students said...