Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PROSECUTOR...
...known for blandness. First, he was arrested for failing to take a drug test that's part of his probation requirements on a 1992 assault charge. (He has been scarce since Tupac Shakur was shot in a car he was driving.) Then the Los Angeles Times disclosed that the prosecutor overseeing his case, Lawrence Longo, had been removed, after the D.A.'s office learned that Knight had given Longo's daughter a record deal and had rented a luxury house from him. Longo denied any impropriety, saying, "I told Suge Knight before he signed her that he wasn't going...
...Bill Clinton is re-elected, Perot warned, his second term will be a nightmare of legal problems that will compare with Watergate. That's a stretch. There are no signs now that Clinton faces anything like the obstruction-of-justice scandal that brought down Richard Nixon. But special prosecutor Kenneth Starr keeps nipping at the heels of people around him. And around the First Lady...
...Richard Mell, this 39-year-old challenger has an advantage that age and experience don't give: a line to Mayor Richard Daley and the Democratic "machine," still a force in Windy City politics. Family ties may have played a role in Blagojevich's primary victory, but the former prosecutor, who talks tough on crime, should also get a boost from the national Democratic Party, which declared Republican incumbent Michael Flanagan "extremely vulnerable...
...debate, despite his handlers' touting of his aggressiveness, Dole was curiously ambivalent, the reluctant prosecutor. Less than 10 minutes into it, in response to a touchy-feely question from a schoolteacher lamenting the lack of civility in public discourse, Dole said, "There's no doubt about it that many American people have lost their faith in government. They see scandals almost on a daily basis." He then glancingly cited the 900 FBI files that turned up in the White House, without explaining the potential abuse of power they represented. And when he did raise questions about the Democrats' sloppy handling...