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...Ahmad, who fled to Pakistan after authorities sought him for questioning in 1990, had sneaked back into the U.S. to sell his house and is now being held without bail as a material witness. He is currently being interrogated by the Justice Department and New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's B.C.C.I. team...
...corporate guilty plea will not slow down the pending indictments of individuals connected to the bank. The investigation has speeded up now that cooperation has improved between federal officials, led by U.S. Attorney General William Barr, and state prosecutors in New York, led by Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau. For months Morgenthau's unprecedented worldwide probe had been running rings around the foot-dragging Justice investigation. Plenty remains to be uncovered. A grand jury in Manhattan is looking into the roles played in B.C.C.I.'s schemes by First American's ex- chairman, former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford...
...Federal Government's latest protected flipster. If juries find him believable, Gravano could obliterate the entire hierarchy of the Gambinos, New York City's largest crime family with more than 400 members and thousands of associates. "I think that in all likelihood it's over for Gotti," exclaims Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan's district attorney...
...Rogers episode coincided with new evidence that the Department of Justice, through blundering or design, is continuing to hamstring its own investigation and interfere with the aggressive inquiries being pursued by New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. So far, the Justice Department's record is an odd mixture of passive and aggressive behavior: incuriously passive in its own pursuit of B.C.C.I. but intensely aggressive in turf battles with Morgenthau's investigators...
TIME reported in July that the Justice Department was understaffing FBI and U.S. attorneys' teams assigned to the case. Morgenthau's complaints that Justice was withholding potential witnesses and blocking access to critical records led then Attorney General Richard Thornburgh to pledge greater cooperation. That promise has not been kept, according to Morgenthau's investigators and Justice Department officials in the field, who have declined to speak on the record for fear of retaliation. "It seems more effort has gone into hunting anyone leaking information to the press," says a Senate investigator...