Word: prosecutors
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...chest last March just as the inquiry got under way. Here was Bronx Democratic Leader Stanley Friedman, an equally mighty politico who was accused of bribing Manes to arrange a city contract with a company in which Friedman held stock. The case pitted Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, a prosecutor with political ambitions, against Thomas Puccio, the attorney who won acquittal for Claus von Bulow on charges that he tried to kill his wife. The prosecution's chief witness was a confessed extortionist who had set up a phony clinic where, he admitted, he had sex with several patients. After...
...come to trial any time soon, if ever. The indictments were handed down secretly three months ago in the hopes that U.S. and Colombian authorities would be able to capture the fugitives unawares. No such luck. "We've been unable to arrest any of them," said a federal narcotics prosecutor in Miami...
...eight grim men seated around the defendants' table may have looked like a group of grandfathers, but to Chief Prosecutor Michael Chertoff, they were directors of the "largest and most vicious criminal business in the history of the United States." Last week twelve anonymous members of a federal jury in New York City seemed to agree. They convicted the eight men, among whom were the leaders of three of New York City's five Mob families, of running the Mafia as a criminal organization controlled by a powerful commission. Among its activities: murder, extortion and racketeering...
Mathias' family had been active Maryland Republicans since before the Civil War, so it was natural for the former city prosecutor from Frederick to run for the House in 1960. He served four terms before running for the Senate in 1968 and squeaking into office in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans almost...
...Harrington has experience," said Harrington campaign consultant Charley Manning. "He has been a lawyer and prosecutor for 25 years, handling organized crime and political corruption...