Word: prosecutors
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...Lance was forced to step down within three weeks. In addition to making other serious mistakes, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese neglected to report a $15,000 loan to his wife from a friend who later won appointment to a Government post. Meese is still under investigation by a special prosecutor, and his nomination las Attorney General is on hold. Last June, Congressman George Hansen, an Idaho Republican, was sentenced to five to 15 months in federal prison for not disclosing $334,000 he and his wife received. His violation of the Ethics in Government Act was more willful and serious...
...shocked and surprised," said Federal Prosecutor Robert Perry. Certainly the Government had seemed to have a firm case going into the trial. De Lorean had been arrested in a hotel near the Los Angeles airport only minutes after gleefully poking a suitcase full of cocaine and proposing a toast to the success of the deal. "It's better than gold," he had gloated in a scene taped by Government agents that was replayed repeatedly in court and on nationwide television. It seemed to support the Government's contention that De Lorean was a willing participant in the drug...
Cases of child abuse also made headlines elsewhere in the country. New Jersey prosecutors are investigating reports of child molesting in nine state-supported and private facilities. In California, preliminary hearings got under way in the case of a private Manhattan Beach preschool that was shut down last November; seven teachers were indicted on 207 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse. The prosecutor charged last week that one of the defendants drugged a seven-year-old boy to make him sexually compliant. Such horrific tales are becoming depressingly familiar. Said Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola: "This kind of child...
...right woman might bring a feeling of something fresh and new to a campaign that so far has sounded like a large, heavy suitcase being tumbled, slow motion, down an interminable flight of stairs." That cover story, applauding the "bold aplomb" that took Ferraro from School Teacher to Assistant Prosecutor to prominent national Politician, went on to say, "It could, if the timing and political climate were precisely right, put her on the Democratic ticket in July." While taking due notice of her lack of expertise in arms control and foreign policy, TIME concluded, "People who know Ferraro would...
...concedes, "Obviously, if I were not a woman I would not be discussed." Yet throughout her career, she has shown the ability to perform jobs that, on paper at least, she was not prepared for. As a Queens housewife with a night-school law degree, she became an effective prosecutor in the gritty criminal courts of Queens. A congressional neophyte, she became a quintessential Capitol Hill insider. She has pulled herself up with intelligence, immense drive, directness and engaging freshness-and by carefully playing according to the rules...