Word: prosecutor
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...signals have suggested otherwise. Former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who will stand trial early next year on perjury charges, strongly implied that special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh had offered to reduce charges against him if he would help finger Ronald Reagan. Clair George, formerly the CIA deputy director for operations, who is now on trial for perjury, received a similar offer to name names right to the top. Oliver North, once Reagan's most adoring acolyte, proclaimed his own unclouded version of the former President's involvement in the Iran-contra scandal in his memoirs: "President Reagan knew everything...
...special prosecutor ended his pursuit last week -- at least for the moment. Responding to reports that he was about to indict Reagan, Walsh sent a letter to the former President reassuring him that he was neither a subject nor a target of the investigation. These legal terms mean that while Reagan may have information of interest to the investigation, he is not likely to be indicted. Former White House chief of staff Donald Regan received a similar letter, but Walsh was reportedly turning his sights on former Attorney General Edwin Meese, who, according to some accounts, masterminded the cover...
When a 176-lb. remote-controlled bomb obliterated anti-Mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino and five police bodyguards last week, no one could miss the message: the Mob would kill anyone, anywhere, in its campaign of intimidation. The brave efforts of a handful of Sicilian judges and prosecutors like Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone, assassinated in a similar blast in May, had won only feeble support from Rome. Nonetheless, the courts managed to put more than 400 suspected mobsters on trial and convict the vast majority of them. But now the Mafia has challenged the prosecutors to back off, and its bloody...
...year, a German employee of the U.S. mission in Berlin and two former Stasi officers were arrested for belonging to a spy ring that targeted U.S. Air Force personnel in Europe. Significantly, one of the ex- Stasi men was already working on the Kremlin's behalf, according to federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl. In Britain senior officials say at least 50 Russian spies are active in London alone; the government is considering the expulsion of a number of Russian diplomats...
...continued to court Saddam even after evidence emerged in the BNL probe of substantial Iraqi misuse of the loan-guarantee program. This week Texas Democrat Jack Brooks, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will hold hearings on whether to call on the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to determine if the Agriculture Department's program was improperly used...