Word: prosecutor
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...long advocated holy war. In a nearby apartment agents found electronics manuals and wiring and other bomb-making material. By week's end authorities had two men in custody. One, Ibrahim A. Elgabrowny, had dunked his hands into a toilet to foil any testing for traces of explosives, a prosecutor charged at his arraignment. The other, Mohammed A. Salameh, an illegal immigrant from Jordan, had rented the van that apparently carried the bomb into the Trade Center garage. In a scene that no thriller novelist would dare dream up, Salameh was arrested as he tried to get his $400 rental...
Clean Hands began in 1991, and got a break a year ago, when Luca Magni, owner of a cleaning company, got tired of paying tangenti, or kickbacks, for the contract to service a public nursing home. He led prosecutors to the facility's administrator, Mario Chiesa, a Socialist Party activist and Craxi associate. The police moved in, Chiesa squealed and the political house of cards began to collapse. Admits Clean Hands chief prosecutor Francesco Saverio Borrelli: "We had no idea when we started how deep this would...
HAVING STUMBLED TWICE IN ATTEMPTS TO CHOOSE an Attorney General, Bill Clinton thinks he got it right this time. After 15 years as prosecutor in Miami's Dade County, Janet Reno, 54, has plenty of experience with such Justice Department issues as narcotics, immigration and corruption. She has a reputation as an innovator who introduced a special court for drug offenders that mixes punishment with treatment. And since she never married or had children, she has never needed a nanny...
Reno was appointed Dade County prosecutor in 1978, and voters returned her to the office five times, despite a rough apprenticeship. Miami endured three nights of racial rioting in 1980 after her office failed to convict four police who allegedly beat a black insurance man to death. Reno regained trust by opening her office to blacks, Hispanics and women...
FOLLOWING THE SERIES OF SURPRISE PARDONS BY George Bush on Christmas Eve, Iran-contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh has found himself largely reduced to shouting -- loudly. In his latest report to Congress, Walsh continued to beat the drums. He directly accused the former President of committing a "grave disservice" to the country by shielding former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger from prosecution, and he suggested that Bush may have done so to avoid answering, as a defense witness, "searching questions" about his own role in the scandal...