Word: prosecutor
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...embarrassing documents Cartwright presented: a handwritten contract in which Crawford promised to pay Cartwright $125 a week and a pledge to promote her to lottery director if he ever became Governor. But Bayh made the documents public two weeks ago, after Crawford indicated he might run for prosecutor of Marion County and Cartwright charged that a state trooper and a lottery official had broken into her apartment. The Governor also fired Cartwright...
...Former prosecutor William F. Weld '66 proposed stimulating economic growth to push revenues up as a solution to the crisis that has resulted in the lowest state bond rating in the nation and a $500 million budget deficit...
Last week former prosecutor Gregorie said that when his office asked to review classified information that might pertain to the case, standard procedure in investigations that might require the airing of Government secrets, the request was denied. "None of the prosecutors working on the case were allowed to see the CIA files," he claimed...
Noriega may hope to escape a guilty verdict because of weaknesses in the Government cases. The indictments in Tampa and Miami are based largely on testimony by convicted felons, whose word juries sometimes find less persuasive than evidence provided through wiretaps or documents. Said a prominent federal prosecutor: "Sounds to me that they got nothing but snitches." A probable witness is Steven Michael Kalish, 37, a convicted drug dealer serving time in Louisiana who claims he passed on $6 million to Noriega over a ten-month period in 1983 and '84. Two other likely convict-witnesses who have given testimony...
...children, including Zoyd Wheeler, a part-time keyboard player, handyman and marijuana farmer. Along with his teenage daughter Prairie, Zoyd still mourns the departure and later disappearance of his ex-wife Frenesi, a onetime '60s radical who was seduced into becoming a Government informer by a notoriously malevolent federal prosecutor named Brock Vond. He has apparently not finished hounding the Wheelers and others. As one observer notes, "Nobody knows just what's goin' on, except there's a nut case leading a heavily armed strike force loose in California...