Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also can't do much to encourage bipartisanship that Democrats are suspicious about the fairness of Kenneth Starr, the successor to Whitewater special prosecutor Robert Fiske, who has a long history as a Republican activist. Their doubts were heightened by news reports that Judge David B. Sentelle, one of the panel of three judges who chose Starr, had recently been lunching with North Carolina Republican Senator Lauch Faircloth, one of Fiske's harshest critics. Though Sentelle says he and Faircloth never discussed Fiske, Democratic House whip David Bonior suggested last week that their meeting "should be a subject of investigation...
...Clinton Administration got what it needed least: the beginnings of another probe by a special prosecutor. Attorney General Janet Reno asked a Washington federal appeals court to appoint an independent counsel to investigate allegations that Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy improperly accepted travel and entertainment gifts from Tyson Foods, Inc., the Arkansas poultry firm with ties to the Clintons. Espy denied any wrongdoing...
General Valentin Varennikov, a former Soviet Deputy Defense Minister, was acquitted of charges that he helped try to overthrow the government of Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991. Varennikov was the only one of 12 defendants to refuse an amnesty offered by the Russian parliament earlier this year. The state prosecutor in the trial claimed that Gorbachev may actually have encouraged the plotters by not opposing them vigorously enough, a conclusion Gorbachev called "absurd...
...surprise move on Friday, a special three-member judicial panel charged with administering the newly re-enacted independent-counsel law appointed Kenneth Starr, the Bush Administration's Solicitor General, to replace Robert Fiske as the special Whitewater prosecutor. The court said its decision was no reflection on Fiske's capabilities or integrity but stemmed from the need to maintain "the appearance of independence." In the law's absence, Fiske was specially appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno earlier this year...
...tale of manipulation emerges -- and a new special prosecutor...