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...what was happening. It was like guys coming out of the bush, saying, 'Hey, give me some of the money.' They'd pay one guy and the next day five guys would be calling them, guys they didn't know. The tapes are hilarious." So said a former federal prosecutor last week, but on Capitol Hill no one shared the amusement. Too many of "the guys" were members of Congress, and "the tapes" were both video and audio, catching the sight and sound of them accepting money to perform special favors ... [T]he FBI had lured the lawmakers into...
...first moves may have been his best. Realizing he didn't have much experience as a prosecutor, he brought in one of Southern New York U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani's stars from across the river, Michael Chertoff, to serve as his top deputy. Together they decided to shift the office's priorities, going after fewer small drug deals and focusing more on public corruption and Mob cases. "We both agreed we should avoid a lot of rinky-dink cases," Chertoff, who is now the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, told TIME. The result was that Alito prosecuted far fewer drug cases...
...fight for survival shifts to his legal battle and reelection effort in Texas. Unless the 11-term congressman and former House GOP leader wins an unexpected victory in the state's highest court in the next few weeks, he'll spend the next year facing off against a zealous prosecutor and Republican and Democratic challengers for his House seat...
...DeLay's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, accuses prosecutor Ronnie Earle, a Democrat, of seeking advantage from national trends by subpoenaing representatives of law firms and Indian tribes connected to lobbyist Jack Abramoff and records from lobbyists connected to disgraced Republican congressman Duke Cunningham-individuals, says DeGuerin, who have no direct ties to the campaign finance charges against his client...
...said the allegations are "complete nonsense" and Greek Public Order Minister George Voulgarakis said the incidents "had never and will never happen." Last week the Athens weekly Proto Thema named nine of 10 intelligence officers it said were involved. Ragoussis, who says he filed a complaint with the state prosecutor in July but decided to go public after lack of progress in the investigation, is suing the nine men for kidnap and torture...