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...city's spending practices and devise a rescue plan. For all the unpopular actions he was forced to take?cutting spending, raising taxes?he won respect by making hard choices with an even temper. But his record was somewhat blemished at year's end when he abruptly fired Maurice Nadjari, the special prosecutor appointed to ferret out corruption in the criminal justice system (see THE NATION...
...three years as New York State's special prosecutor, tough, single-minded Maurice Hyman Nadjari has been both praised and damned for his relentless crusade against official corruption. To his defenders he was upright, honest and dedicated in his pursuit of larcenous cops, politicians, judges and even fellow prosecutors. To his detractors he was unorthodox, ruthless, overzealous, tyrannical and inept. Last week, in a meeting that lasted less than three minutes, New York Governor Hugh Carey told Nadjari to clean out his desk. For Carey, who is thought to be eying a spot on trie Democratic national ticket...
Carey explained that his decision followed a "perceptible decline in public confidence" in Nadjari. He cited "clashes in personalities as well as a series of adverse court decisions and rulings" against the special prosecutor. Indeed, Nadjari had been bickering openly with State Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtagh over a number of key indictments that the judge had recently invalidated. But Carey's action came as a surprise because the dispute appeared to have been resolved...
...Nadjari, 51, had compiled a reasonably good record. He became known as a superb prosecutor during 20 years in New York City and nearby Suffolk County before then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller named him special prosecutor in 1972. The post was created in the malodorous wake of the Knapp Commission hearings on official corruption in the Big Apple, and Nadjari was given extraordinary powers. A Democrat-turned-Republican, Superprosecutor Nadjari went on to indict 296 persons on various charges of corruption. He won guilty verdicts against one district attorney (later reversed) and a number of lesser government officials. No fewer than...
...York City, Special Prosecutor Maurice Nadjari was appointed two years ago to police the city's entire criminal justice system. He has chalked up 85 indictments, including 33 against policemen ranking from lieutenant on down. Two weeks ago, he obtained an indictment against his fourth judge...