Word: leon
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...telephone and possessing obscene photographs in the early 1960s. He received a suspended sentence for both offenses. Schiavone's gumshoes are delving into the personal lives of other committee staffers, as well as of some Senators. The snoops have also cultivated contacts with the staff of Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman, who is investigating the Donovan affair...
Federal Investigators are not yet certain why Fred Furino, 52, an important witness in Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman's probe into Donovan's alleged ties to the Mafia, was murdered. His decaying body, with at least one bullet wound in the head, was found in a car abandoned in New York City. A career gangster, Furino had been intensively questioned by Silverman's investigators and called before a federal grand jury hearing Silverman's witnesses. The investigators suspect that other mobsters feared that Furino had been cooperating with federal officials. Furino may not have been...
Hatch said last week that his committee will pursue the Donovan case as soon as Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman concludes his investigation of the Labor Secretary. Hatch and the committee's ranking Democrat, Edward Kennedy, have persuaded the Senate Judiciary Committee (of which both are also members) to delay confirmation of Mullen to his new post as head of the Drug Enforcement Administration. This time they want all the information before a final vote is taken...
...said, except maybe one thing. "I'm very sorry that I'm not what you expect," said Holmes after it was over. "I'm sorry that I'm not Muhammad Ali... that I'm not Joe Louis." He even apologized for not being Leon Spinks. "I was not born to be them." But he is the Heavyweight Champion of the World. He was born to be that. Holding up the World Boxing Council belt, Holmes paused a long moment late last Friday night and then noted for the record: "I still have...
...Leon Jaworski, 76, special Watergate prosecutor who succeeded Cox and won Supreme Court fight to obtain Nixon tapes. Got $1.5 million in royalties from his Watergate book, The Right and the Power (200,000 hard-cover sales). Put $500,000 into foundation providing Baylor Law School scholarships. Still advises his law firm in Houston. Heads board of Texas Medical Center and serves on Reagan's National Foreign Intelligence Board...