Word: prosecutors
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...minutes to midnight when Economics Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff appeared at the office of Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week to tender his resignation. The outspoken Lambsdorff, 57, who had spent nearly seven years in the key Cabinet post, is expected soon to be formally charged by the Bonn public prosecutor's office with accepting $50,000 on behalf of the Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.) from the Flick Holding Co. in exchange for allowing the firm generous tax writeoffs. Lambsdorff, who will retain his seat in the Bundestag, insisted on his innocence. "The charges will not hold up," he declared...
Richardson's friends say he is not proud of his most famous role as Attorney General in the "Saturday Night Massacre," when, during the Watergate scandal, he chose to resign rather than follow then-President Nixon's orders to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34. But campaign advertisements currently running on local TV stations hail his resignation--which made him a hero among liberals--as one of his greatest accomplishments...
...Official report of the Italian state prosecutor...
Last week that theory received support in an official document that recommended indictments and revealed the intricacies of Agca's account. The 78-page confidential report, made public by freelance Investigative Reporter Claire Sterling* in the New York Times, was compiled by State Prosecutor Antonio Albano and drawn from some 25,000 pages of material assembled by Investigating Magistrate Ilarío Martella. The report details Agca's longstanding association with the Turkish Mafia and the Gray Wolves, an ultrarightist band of Turkish terrorists. It goes on to discuss his recruitment by the Bulgarian secret service...
...Carter to the Reagan Administration. But the General Accounting Office, an arm of Congress, was refused access to the books. Leaks about who got how much from the funds appeared; White House aides reportedly quarreled among themselves about how much to disclose and when Jacob Stein, the special prosecutor who is looking into the financial affairs of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, asked for a copy of an audit by the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co., and the funds' lawyers finally released it last week. It pointed to no apparent illegalities. The audit, however, did present some intriguing bits...