Word: prosecutor
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There has already been an attempt to secure afederal investigation of the Office of SpecialInvestigations. U.S. Representative James A.Traficant Jr. (D-Ohio) sent a letter last month toPresident Clinton and Reno requesting that aspecial prosecutor be appointed to investigate theconduct of Ryan and other attorneys...
...potentially explosive unknown in the realignment is the Tokyo prosecutor's office. Its expanding investigation into political corruption has netted five local government officials and 24 construction-compa ny executives on graft charges. Insiders say the prosecutors are closing in on national politicians. Rumors are flying about who may end up as a target for interrogation: not the least frequently named is Ozawa, who was fingered by a construction executive as the recipient of a questionable campaign donation. The furious Shinseito chief has denied any wrongdoing...
Once by the railway line, James was kicked, stoned and beaten on the head with bricks and a metal rod until he died. The child's half-unclothed body was then placed across the freight track, said the prosecutor, where it was found two days later, cut in half. "James is only a small child," was the description his mother gave the police the day of his disappearance. "He has brown-blond hair, straight, which is ready for cutting ... he has a full set of baby teeth." But it was already too late...
Both boys deny the charges, although the prosecution has described how one confessed to the killing when he was arrested a week after it took place. In private, the prosecutor says, the defendants have blamed each other for the murder, each changing his story as further evidence...
...President was not on any ballot last Tuesday, of course. But two Democrats he campaigned hard for, New York City Mayor David Dinkins and New Jersey Governor James Florio, were turned out of office. Their defeats were the more galling because of the identity of their Republican conquerors. Former prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani had lost to Dinkins four years earlier; Christine Todd Whitman was a relative novice who had held only one minor elective office in New Jersey and proposed pie-in-the-sky tax cuts...