Word: pleadingly
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...promise. Yet when the critical vote counting starts, he may not be around to deliver. Last week it was widely leaked that his lawyer, Robert Bennett, had met with prosecutors in the chairman's long-running criminal case and suggested that the Congressman might be willing to plead guilty to a misdemeanor. If that proposition were rebuffed, the accounts went, U.S. Attorney Eric Holder would probably request a felony indictment of Rostenkowski by Memorial...
...Rostenkowski were to plead guilty to a lesser felony, Holder's office might be willing to go along with it in order to avoid a jury trial. Said a source with knowledge of the government's case against Rostenkowski: "It's not a head shot." This means that regardless of what the feds think they can prove the Congressman or his employees did, the prosecutors lack overwhelming evidence to prove it was done with intent to perpetrate a major fraud. The prosecutors believe, moreover, that juries in the District of Columbia tend to favor the defendant. A Rostenkowski confidant says...
Rivers was roundly criticized four years agoafter he helped get Michael Finkley, who wouldlater plead guilty to murder, into Boston College
...night (epiphany not too long ago, was it?) i reconciled the false world-historical contradiction between ethics and aesthetics. (irony: the resurgent dawn of nihilism.) I probably should've written it down, but i plead 'catnap': coerion by my spiteful and neglected excuse for a body: the revenge of R.E.M. Or was that a dream? Is not this a dream? Of course, isn't 'sleep' still a prerequiste for 'dreams...
...Hogue plead guilty to one count of larcenygreater than $250 and was sentenced to serve threeto five years in the Cedar Junction prison inWalpole, Mass. Hogue is scheduled to be paroled inone year, with the rest of the sentence suspended...