Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigation of Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan came to an unsatisfying end last week. Less than a month after reopening his inquiry, Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman closed the case, saying, "I have been unable to corroborate the allegations made against him with sufficient credible evidence." But the prosecutor's exoneration of Donovan was something like the Scotch verdict of "not proven." Said Silverman: "I was, and I continue to be, concerned by the sheer number of allegations...
...Islamic revolution that swept away Shah Reza Pahlavi in February 1979: Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, 46, the man who sprang to international prominence as Iran's Foreign Minister during the U.S. hostage crisis. Ghotbzadeh was shot after a 26-day trial in which he was accused by the Islamic military prosecutor of plotting to overthrow the Islamic government and assassinate Khomeini...
...Schiavone Construction Co., had met in Miami with William Masselli, a member of the Genovese Mafia family and head of an excavation firm that did business with Schiavone. Donovan heatedly denied the charge, and Silverman decided that the Miami meeting could not be corroborated. Then, last May, the special prosecutor persuaded Masselli's son Nat to allow the FBI to tap his telephone conversations with a Schiavone lawyer. The taps turned up no evidence of criminal activities...
...late June, Silverman announced that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to prosecute Donovan. But in a 1,025-page report, the special prosecutor disclosed that the elder Masselli, now serving a seven-year sentence for hijacking, had tried to peddle information about Donovan in an effort to cut his prison term and that Nat had permitted the FBI to bug his phones. Although these details were largely overlooked by the press, they were apparently noted with extreme interest by mobsters...
...feat that a more modest (or less benevolent) people would not have counted on. "Rehabilitate? What is rehabilitate?" scowls Eddie Meeks, an inmate at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois. "You can't rehabilitate me if I don't want to." Daniel Weil, a former Chicago warden and prosecutor, is clear-sighted...