Word: lobbyists
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...million provision attached to the budget bill that would allow briefs and other goods manufactured in the Caribbean to enter the U.S. at dramatically lower tariffs. Fearing that the provision would help competitors munch into its market, FRUIT OF THE LOOM has hired former Senate majority leader turned lobbyist BOB DOLE to oppose the measure. Cheerleading for Hanes' parent, Sara Lee Corp., and other U.S. apparel makers with major Caribbean interests, is former Reagan aide KEN DUBERSTEIN. Also coming out of the closet on this issue is PRESIDENT CLINTON, a close friend of Sara Lee Corp. CEO and Democratic fund...
...chicken-processing giant Tyson Foods, that had business before his department. But after spending more than $9 million, Smaltz has compiled a record that shows the perils of prosecutorial passion. Last week he suffered his most serious rebuke, when a federal judge granted a new trial to convicted Tyson lobbyist Jack Williams. Reason: Smaltz's prosecutors had failed to tell Williams' lawyers that one of their main FBI witnesses had admitted lying under oath in an unrelated matter. (A Smaltz spokesman said the lack of disclosure was unintentional.) Last month the judge in another case related to the Espy probe...
...final indictments before wrapping up by summer. He has granted chicken tycoon Don Tyson immunity from prosecution for anything but perjury; and last week Tyson testified for a third day before a grand jury. Smaltz's next targets? The likeliest include Tyson Foods, company spokesman Archie Schaffer, lobbyist Jack Williams (in a new indictment) and of course Espy. Attorneys for those parties say they expect no letup from the man who has given his staff watches that bear his name, the independent-counsel seal and the words IN RE MICHAEL ESPY...
...success at securing government subsidies and the contributions Haney made to the Vice President and his party. But in this case, Gore did not need to pick up the phone to have direct influence on the fortunes of Haney's company; Haney had all the right connections. His lobbyist, Peter Knight, is the hub of Gore's political circle. He ran Gore's House and Senate office for years, helped finance his campaigns and chaired the Clinton-Gore re-election effort in 1996. In Knight, Haney also had a solid link to Tom Grumbly, who worked for Gore...
...political advantages were obvious by the time the plant opened in September 1993, early in the Clinton Administration. Thanks to Knight, one of the guest speakers there was Grumbly, whose trip the lobbyist had arranged. Grumbly suggested that the firm could receive as much as $200 million in federal work, which sent the stock soaring. Gore, who wrote a best-selling book on the environment, joined the cheerleading in April 1995. He traveled to the Fall River, Mass., plant to deliver an Earth Day speech in which he plugged Knight's client as a "shining example of American ingenuity...