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Reese refuses to blame the campaign's negative quality entirely on the 'handlers'--the political consultants who have scripted the campaign and controlled the candidates to ensure the maximum number of sound bites. "That's the ultimate cop-out," he says...
...vice president, formerly head of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the case would probably fall under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. which deals with government computer systems and carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison. That law applies to the case only if it can be proved Morris intended to steal information from restricted computer files or to disrupt computer facilities...
...techniques of the true-crime genre. Hearsay information is accepted as more or less reliable, and eyewitness accounts are energetically dramatized. Some characters are protected by pseudonyms. Others are fictional or, as the journalists prefer, "composites." In addition, dialogue that could not have been recorded firsthand is approximated for maximum effect. Here, for example, is a murder scene in which the victim, repeatedly shot, stabbed and bludgeoned, is as hard to kill as Rasputin...
Influence peddling was to have been curbed by the series of campaign laws that Congress passed in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Designed to keep fat cats at bay, the legislation permits individual donors to give a maximum of $1,000 to any one candidate and gifts to multiple candidates in federal races that can total no more than $25,000 a year. Companies are not allowed to contribute directly to campaigns, but they, along with labor unions and other organizations, can set up political-action committees that solicit donations from employees or members and give...
Those charged with racketeering and racketeering conspiracy face a maximum of 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines on each count...