Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon find out. William French Smith insists that he plans to leave the post to return to his California law practice this month, and President Reagan has not pressed him to reconsider. Edwin Meese, Reagan's nominee as Smith's replacement, cannot be confirmed until a special prosecutor finishes investigating Meese's sloppy financial dealings, a process likely to take at least six months. Nor is there officially a Deputy Attorney General to fill in during the interim; Edward Schmults, who had been handling the daily operations of the Justice Department, quit that post last February...
...Meese's request, Smith last week asked a select panel of three senior federal judges to appoint a special prosecutor with a wide latitude to look into charges that Meese was helped financially by people who later got federal jobs, failed to report one loan and a stock purchase, got special treatment in shifting his Army Reserve status and knew more than he has admitted about documents from the 1980 Carter campaign that ended up in his own files. The prosecutor is expected to be named this week. Even if the investigation is completed within six months and Meese...
...support so that no one can be held responsible for deciding to pull the plug. A New York grand-jury report last month charged administrators at a Queens hospital, widely recognized as La Guardia, with "shocking procedural abuses" in the care of elderly patients. According to New York State Prosecutor Edward Kuriansky, the hospital would put purple decals on the charts of patients who were not to be resuscitated should they start to fail. After death, the charts were destroyed so that there was no record of the fatal decision. La Guardia officials deny the charge, but there...
Alvarado has started to pay off his debts, and hired a friend, former Abscam Prosecutor Thomas Puccio, to handle his defense at the department of investigation hearing. While Alvarado fights for his professional life, the board of education has named Nathan Quinones, 53, executive director of the city's high schools, as acting chancellor. Quinones, a conservative educator, has already announced that he will re-evaluate Alvarado's plans; many teachers fear that imaginative programs to improve education in the city's poorest areas will be dismantled. Says Luther Seabrook, superintendent of Harlem's District...
...seems there was a questionable appointment here, a few cufflinks there. Before long, Meese's financial dealings and subsequent patronage had sparked an investigative firestorm in Washington. And last week, both Meese and his critics were calling for a special prosecutor to examine his conduct in office--the latter to savage his confirmation hopes, the former in hopes of clearing his name once...