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Smaltz has scored some successes. He has snagged plea bargains or guilty verdicts in eight cases, including the conviction of Sun-Diamond Growers, a California raisin-and-nut cooperative, for, among other things, giving Espy luggage, meals and transportation. But even before his recent big losses, lawyers were complaining that Smaltz and his deputy Ted Greenberg have acted like wayward cowboys. Hiram Eastland, a lawyer representing former Espy aide Ron Blackley, says Smaltz's lawyers put Blackley's wife on the stand and tried to get her to testify against her husband despite the long-standing marital-privilege doctrine...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Brother, can you spare $250,000? That?s the plea President Clinton will make to 40 or 50 of his wealthiest supporters over dinner Wednesday night in a desperate attempt to balance the Democrat's sagging books as the midterm election season fast approaches. Clinton will ask each of his pals to raise or donate $250,000 over the next two years to help retire the party's $14.5 million debt. The DNC has met all its money targets so far this year, and expects to raise at least $50 million in 1997. But while the flush...
...defense's final sally came on Wednesday, when Jones played tapes of Michael Fortier, McVeigh's Army buddy, talking about the case with friends. The tapes were made by the fbi when Fortier was a suspect. Under a plea-bargain deal, he testified for the prosecution that he had helped McVeigh plan the bombing. "I can tell a fable," he said to his father when he was contemplating the deal. "I can tell stories all day long." On another tape he joked about how much money he could make selling his tale to newspapers and television shows...
...offense, the less happens to him." Critics cite the cases of Rear Admiral Ralph Tindal, who in 1995 was fined, demoted and confined to quarters for 30 days after an affair with a petty officer, and Lieut. Lisa Kelly, who, after liaisons with two enlisted men, had to plea-bargain to avoid a 19-year prison sentence...
...week's end analysts were asking whether the Digital action was an honest plea for justice or just the bared-fang attack of a cornered and wounded animal. The tottering hardware giant had bet heavily on its $2.5 billion Alpha microprocessor to return it to prosperity. Alpha is unquestionably the fastest chip on the market, but its speed hasn't overcome Intel's marketing clout. In 1996, according to Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Mercury Research, Intel shipped some 65 million Pentium chips, or 76% of the microprocessor market, compared with 200,000 Alphas. And this year looks grimmer still: 18 million...