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Federal Investigators are not yet certain why Fred Furino, 52, an important witness in Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman's probe into Donovan's alleged ties to the Mafia, was murdered. His decaying body, with at least one bullet wound in the head, was found in a car abandoned in New York City. A career gangster, Furino had been intensively questioned by Silverman's investigators and called before a federal grand jury hearing Silverman's witnesses. The investigators suspect that other mobsters feared that Furino had been cooperating with federal officials. Furino may not have been...
Hatch said last week that his committee will pursue the Donovan case as soon as Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman concludes his investigation of the Labor Secretary. Hatch and the committee's ranking Democrat, Edward Kennedy, have persuaded the Senate Judiciary Committee (of which both are also members) to delay confirmation of Mullen to his new post as head of the Drug Enforcement Administration. This time they want all the information before a final vote is taken...
...prosecutor, with his moralistic oratory and his psychiatrist, who essentially agreed with the defense case, was no match for Litman. "In the end," a juror summed up, "it came down to whether . . . you went with your instincts or your heart." Bonnie's mother Joan had a different interpretation: "If you have a $30,000 defense fund, a Yale connection and a clergy connection, you're entitled to one free hammer murder...
Former U.S. Solicitor General and Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: "Some may think it odd to describe the immediate future as bright and exciting. Even a sanguine disposition might characterize the present in Charles Dickens' ambivalent words: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' Granting all this and more, granting-nay, emphasizing-that a11 times are a mixed bag, still I would emphasize the best of times. Let me put it to you directly as a colleague put it to me when I asked him what...
Jill Wine-Banks, 39, assistant special Watergate prosecutor. Known for both her miniskirts and her notable comment, "You took your foot off the pedal," when Rose Mary Woods tried to demonstrate how she might have accidentally erased part of Nixon tape. Divorced in 1979. Married Michael Banks, high school sweetheart. General counsel to the Army under Carter, now partner in Chicago law firm headed by Albert Jenner, who was Republican counsel to House Judiciary Committee...