Word: prosecutor
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Ryan was sure he had the right man, and he made something of a career of his association with the case. He wrote a book, appeared as a prosecutor in a televised mock trial of Austrian president Kurt Waldheim and spoke around the country...
After months of resisting pressure to resign, fbi Director William Sessions said he would leave only if President Clinton fired him; Clinton obliged and promptly nominated U.S. District Judge Louis Freeh for the position. A former fbi agent, Freeh, 43, first made a name for himself as a federal prosecutor in New York City, where he helped obtain the 1987 convictions of a Mafia drug- dealing ring in the Pizza Connection cases...
Freeh (pronounced Free) did become an FBI agent, as well as a federal prosecutor and, two years ago, a federal judge. And last week, even before he arrived at the White House for a sun-soaked Rose Garden ceremony, Freeh was being hailed in a chorus of praise as an ideal choice to be the Federal Bureau of Investigation's next director. In nominating the 43-year-old judge, President Bill Clinton called Freeh "a law-enforcement legend." That sounded like silly hype, except that Clinton's assessment was matched by so many others, including those of Democrats and Republicans...
Throughout his career, his friends and colleagues say, Freeh has been the straightest of arrows, a diligent worker and devoted family man who remained unpretentious despite his success. "Louie is just a cut above," says Richard Martin, who worked with Freeh as a federal prosecutor. "He has a moral core that really distinguishes...
...feud brewing for four months flared into a bitter brawl. Alvarez was one of seven executives who last spring defected to Volkswagen with GM purchasing czar Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua. "I cannot say that the papers we found were secret," said a spokesman for the local prosecutor's office in Darmstadt. "But I can say with certainty that the papers did not belong to ((Alvarez))." Speaking through his attorney, Alvarez said the boxes contained no corporate secrets...