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...independent counsel investigating the contract-steering scandal surrounding former Housing Secretary Samuel Pierce announced that he would not bring any charges against the Reagan Administration official owing to lack of evidence. But the prosecutor, whose probe has resulted in 16 convictions of subordinates and others, forced Pierce to release a statement admitting that "my own conduct contributed to an environment in which these events could occur...
While the Kremlin gave no immediate response, Deputies in the Duma, or lower house of parliament, blasted the initial government decision to send troops to Chechnya. "The country is in crisis," said one, reformer Boris Fyodorov, joining a unanimous call for a special commission to probe the war. Still, the Deputies rejected a limit on President BorisYeltsin's power to run the military offensive, and -- in a slap at widely criticized Defense Minister Pavel Grachev -- ordered the army's general staff to report directly to Yeltsin...
...reopened the investigation into the July 1993 suicide of former White House attorney Vincent Foster. Starr's staff revealed today that a federal grand jury is exhaustively examining the 1993 U.S. Park Police inquiry into Foster's death. Mark Tuohey, a deputy Whitewater prosecutor, declined to reveal the probe's precise focus but simply told reporters, "You use grand juries for information gathering." Starr's staff, meanwhile, today sought to question several Park Police officers who investigated Foster's death.TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratansays the independent counsel is satisfying recent complaints from North Carolina's Senator Lauch Faircloth and other...
Samuel Pierce, President Reagan's first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, won't be charged after a five-year probe of housing corruption scandals in the 1980s -- largely because government prosecutors have concluded that he is old and ill and didn't profit from alleged cronyism in the department. But Independent Counsel Arlin Adams said today that Pierce, 72, nicknamed "Silent Sam" for keeping a low profile during his government tenure, has admitted he created an environment that permitted aides to steer federal aid illegally to friends and political allies. "I realize that my own conduct contributed...
...Johnson & Johnson subsidiary says it will plead guilty tomorrow to obstructing a federal probe of how it marketed Retin-A, an acne drug commonly prescribed as a wrinkle remover. The firm, Ortho Pharmaceuticals of Raritan, N.J., agreed to pay $7.5 million in fines and dismiss three senior employees who shredded documents sought by investigators. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched its investigation in 1991, concerned that Ortho had been promoting Retin-A for a non-approved use as a wrinkle cream...