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...explosive this investigation could be was revealed last week, when Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh secured the scandal's first guilty plea, one that led uncomfortably close to the Oval Office. Conservative Fund Raiser Carl ("Spitz") Channell admitted he had conspired to defraud the Government by using a tax-exempt "charitable" foundation to send military supplies to the contras. He named former National Security Council Aide Lieut. Colonel Oliver North as his "co-conspirator." North had not only helped persuade donors to give to Channell but had also successfully urged Ronald Reagan to thank many...
...lawman who hauled in Boesky has his way, future insider traders could face even more dismal prospects. The day before the arbitrager's plea, U.S. Attorney Rudolph Guiliani of New York's southern district urged the Senate Banking Committee to stiffen the penalties for those who buy or sell securities based on confidential company information. He also called for mandatory prison terms for brokers who lie to investigators...
Neither the plea nor the politicking proved to be enough to shake investor confidence in the stock market's underlying strength, however. On the day of the Boesky hearing, a seat on the New York Stock Exchange sold for a record $1 million...
American officials had qualms about consigning Linnas to the Soviet judicial system. After all, the 1962 verdict had been published in the journal Socialist Legality even before the trial took place. But the Soviet evidence against him was overwhelming. In denying Linnas' plea that, in the name of humanity, he not be sent back, a three-judge panel in New York City declared that "noble words . . . ring hollow when spoken by a man who ordered the extermination of innocent men, women and children kneeling at the edge of a mass grave." Last week the Supreme Court...
...days of a pretrial hearing at Quantico to determine whether Lonetree should undergo a court-martial, the defendant's lawyers won a 3 1/2- week postponement of the proceedings. As Lonetree emerged from the courtroom, he grinned broadly and gave the thumbs-up sign, an indication that a plea bargain may be in the works. Lonetree's chief attorney, William Kunstler, claimed the prosecution's witnesses "said nothing that hurt our client." Added Kunstler: "They have no direct evidence that ties or links him to any illegal activity...