Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Asked why a man of Cornally's wealth would risk his career for a piddling $10,000, one politician replied "John would think of that as a legal fee to which he was entitled. He wouldn't think of it as a bribe." The white knights of the Special Prosecutor's Office had toppled one Nixon crony after another, and Connally looked like merely another transgressor of the public trust, caught red-handed...
...same time, a lot of people may be sympathetic to Connally. Many Americans always had a vague suspicion of the righteous zealotry of the Special Prosecutor's team, realizing that issues are seldom so clear-cut as the public was led to believe in the Watergate scandals. Even before his indictment, Connally was a long shot for the Republican presidential nomination, and President Ford would have to withdraw for Connally to have a chance. Connally still lacks a network of supporters in the GOP and an office. Unlike his potential opponents, he has not been out preaching the Gospel...
...stunning accusation threw salt on newly reopened wounds. Scarcely had a Buffalo jury convicted two inmates of involvement in the fatal beating of Prison Guard William Quinn during the 1971 uprising at Attica (TIME, April 14) than the news broke that a former chief aide to Attica Special Prosecutor Anthony G. Simonetti had charged that there had been a cover-up in the investigation of the revolt. Malcolm H. Bell accused his old boss of deliberately impeding the inquiry into possible criminal acts by law enforcement officers...
...conducted a "very open investigation." Governor Carey has asked for a report from Attorney General Lefkowitz, which Lefkowitz delegated to his appointee-Simonetti. "I have complete faith," says the Attorney General, "in what's-his-name-Simonetti." Bell is calling instead for an independent inquiry of the prosecutor's office. The evidence-and the news that two more prosecutors resigned from Simonetti's staff-indicate such a study is probably needed to dissolve the doubts shrouding the Attica tragedy...
...brought it under criticism for laxity in policing the industry. Last week a House Commerce Subcommittee heard testimony from Customs and Florida officials about three purported attempts by FEA to stop the Jacksonville grand jury probe so that FEA could pursue a civil case. T. Edward Austin, a state prosecutor in Jacksonville, testified that as recently as last month he had felt that the FEA was trying to "pull me back" from pursuing the grand jury investigation. FEA officials denied these accusations, and General Counsel Robert Montgomery repeated an earlier pledge by his boss Frank Zarb: from...