Word: prosecutor
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...White House aide managed the details of the Iran-contra scheme. After he was found guilty of three offenses, a three-member panel of the appeals court last July overturned one conviction on technical grounds and sent the other two back to the trial court. The special prosecutor handling the case, Lawrence Walsh, contested that ruling. But last week the full court let it stand...
...aired in a series of articles in the Houston Post, that the CIA used fraudulently obtained S&L money to fund some of its covert operations, including support for the now defunct Nicaraguan contra rebels. But there is more evidence for a second Post allegation: that a Justice Department prosecutor investigating a bank failure in 1985 was warned off by FBI agents because one of his targets had CIA ties. The House committee, which questioned CIA Director William Webster about the matter in a closed-door session in late October, is expected to announce its findings soon...
...Massachusetts the tart tongue of Boston University President John Silber had swept him to the Democratic nomination over a party stalwart. But he tripped on it in the battle with Republican William Weld, an aristocratic former federal prosecutor. Silber offended blacks and women and frightened voters of all types with his anger. (In typical style, he branded Weld a "backstabbing son of a bitch.") Weld's 4% victory was largely a rejection of Silber's intemperateness. Says pollster Gerry Chervinsky: "Voters bought his message, but they couldn...
...newborns in the U.S. could suffer harm from their mothers' prenatal abuse of illegal drugs, district attorneys are tempted by what looks like the quick fix of pregnancy prosecution. "You have the right to an abortion. You have the right to have a baby," says Charles Molony Condon, prosecutor for the Charleston, N.C., area. "You don't have the right to have a baby deformed by cocaine." Courts have given a mostly skeptical reception to the attempt to apply existing drug laws in such a novel fashion, but eight states and Congress are considering legislation that would explicitly criminalize drug...
Praveen Malhotra, who denies killing his wife, is out on bail. According to a prosecutor, he will almost certainly be acquitted...