Word: prosecutor
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Faced with a mushrooming crisis, Yeltsin last week called for a new effort to stem crime. Turning to the well-tested tactic of seeking a scapegoat, he fired Moscow police chief Vladimir Pankratov and city chief prosecutor Gennadi Ponomaryov for failing to "provide proper organization" to deal with "grave crimes." He chaired a meeting of the Security Council, which issued a stern warning: the continued activities of organized crime were "discrediting state powers" and "threatening the security of Russia...
...will "stay and fight" rather than resign as an independent counsel begins to investigate whether he lied to the FBI during his pre-confirmation background check in early 1994. Cisneros announced his decision at a press conference soon after Attorney General Janet Reno recommended the appointment of the special prosecutor to probe allegations that Cisneros lied about payments to an ex-mistress. TIME White House correspondent James Carney says Cisneros, who had indicated his intention to resign if a counsel were appointed, apparently changed his mind after a long session with President Clinton, who is already weighed down with financial...
MARCIA CLARK, lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson trial, pleaded in court two weeks ago that she could not stay for a late Friday session because of child-care problems. Now those problems may land her in another court. Gordon Clark, her estranged husband, has filed for primary custody of their two children, ages three and five, claiming that they are "starved for affection ... I have personal knowledge that [Marcia] doesn't arrive home until 10 p.m. I do not want our children to continue to suffer because she ... never has time to spend with them." Responding through her lawyer...
...question the prosecutor did not answer was Raul's motive for the crime. Friends and some government officials intimate that if Raul Salinas is guilty, his involvement may stem less from politics than from personal animus and the clash between powerful egos. Government sources say Raul, who has lived in the shadow of his younger brother ever since their father began grooming Carlos for national politics, deeply resented his hard-driving, often arrogant former brother-in-law. Ruiz Massieu was supposed to have sometimes been openly disdainful of Raul. The hostility between the two men may have deepened in recent...
...week's end Chapa had still not publicly produced evidence actually linking Raul Salinas to the accused gunman or to the web of alleged conspirators jailed by the previous special prosecutor. He was none other than Ruiz Massieu's brother Mario. Mario Ruiz Massieu had quit his post as Deputy Attorney General and the P.R.I. last November, claiming the party was hindering his investigation. But on Wednesday Chapa declared that his team had found ``errors'' in Mario Ruiz Massieu's investigation, suggesting that he had helped cover up Raul's role in the case. The murdered politician's brother spent...