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...former prosecutor in Alameda County, Calif., Meese prides himself on being tough on crime. But two widely publicized cases have led to criticism that he is soft on well-connected criminals. In May the Justice Department accepted a settlement allowing the E.F. Hutton brokerage company to plead guilty to a massive check- kiting scheme, but declined to seek indictments of any of the firm's officers, although Hutton was fined $2 million. Meese has also had to defend the Justice Department's protection of Jackie Presser, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the only major union boss...
CHARGES DROPPED. Against Jim Brown, 49, sometime actor and former Cleveland Browns star fullback, who last February was accused by a woman named Margo Tiff of beating and raping her; after the prosecutor concluded that stories told by witnesses at a preliminary hearing were contradictory; in Los Angeles. She is now suing him for $10 million...
Among all the rumors, inevitably, there were some that insisted that the Angel of Death had all along been dead. In 1948 Telford Taylor, who had served as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, announced that "Dr. Mengele is dead as of October 1946." In 1970, according to another story, Mengele was buried in Asuncion under the name Flores. Three years later, Brazilian newspapers reported that the doctor had been killed by Israeli agents in a hideout along the Brazil-Paraguay border. "This is the fourth reported incidence of Mengele's death," was the verdict last...
...doctor's homeland, meanwhile, where Federal Prosecutor Hans Eberhard Klein had nearly despaired of ever getting cooperation from the close-mouthed Mengele family, Rolf Mengele's unexpected statement about his father's fate stirred worldwide interest. It also revealed the eccentric ways of the secrecy-loving clan. As reporters gathered outside the office of Munich Architect Jens Hackenjos, young Mengele's stepbrother, Hackenjos sent his wife Sabine, accompanied by Herbert Bauermeister, a free-lance journalist, to inform newspeople that her husband had already handed over Rolf's statement to German wire-service agencies. At his own apartment Hackenjos opened...
...sightings of the Auschwitz death doctor had come and gone, but the Mengeles of Gunzburg said nothing, never offering so much as a sliver of information about Josef Mengele's possible fate to the West German investigators assigned to the case. "Not once," said - Hans-Eberhard Klein, the federal prosecutor who has handled the West German part of the probe since 1974. "Never...