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...THERE'S ONE THING LOBBYISTS HATE, IT'S BEING ON THE wrong side once the votes are counted, so they're eager to write checks in the closing weeks of the campaign. In a plea accompanied by return-paid Federal Express envelopes two weeks ago, chief G.O.P. fund raiser Bob Mosbacher implored friends of the Administration to help raise $9 million fast, noting with horror that "for the first time in history, the Democrats have been beating us." Sure enough, Clinton-Gore bumper stickers are becoming a badge of wealth. Best measure coming up: the competition to contribute as much...
Last week Imperial owner Emmett Roe, 65, was sentenced to 19 years 11 months in jail as part of a plea bargain that let his son Brad, the plant's operations manager, get off scot-free. Relatives of the dead were outraged, yet the owner's punishment was unusually strong for fire violations. "I can understand the pain of the community, but this is by far the stiffest sentence that I'm aware of for a worker-safety criminal charge," says Douglas Fuller, a spokesman for the Labor Department. That message will probably spread among plant managers around the country...
...books" scheme to hide $4 billion in unbacked loans and unauthorized U.S.-backed credits to Iraq. But on the eve of a sentencing hearing that could condemn him to 390 years in prison, Drogoul replaced his public defender with the wily Cook, who moved to vacate the guilty plea...
...District Judge Marvin Shoob allows Drogoul to change his plea this week, it is sure to re-open questions about the government's awareness of the financial chicanery surrounding Iraq's military buildup. Though a retrial by jury would be months away, the specter of the "Iraq-gate" scandal would surely hang, unresolved, over the Bush White House until well after the November election...
...work April 29. Last week in a federal courtroom in Trenton, New Jersey, Arthur Seale, a former security officer for Exxon, recounted the grisly details as he pleaded guilty to extortion charges that could bring him up to 95 years in prison and $1.75 million in fines. Seale's plea reversal came on the eve of his trial, at which Irene Seale, his wife and co-conspirator, was scheduled to testify against...