Word: reno
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...Janet Reno's parents were both newspaper reporters. Her brother Robert is a columnist. So it's fair to suspect she has a journalist's instinct in her blood. That could explain what it was that got her last week to jump-start her department's investigation of campaign fund raising: sheer fury at being scooped. Earlier this month she read in the Washington Post that $120,000 in "soft money" solicited by Al Gore for general party activities last year had somehow found its way into "hard money" accounts that financed individual campaigns. Reno was outraged that reporters...
...Reno had already launched a 30-day review to determine whether to ask for an independent counsel to investigate Gore. All by themselves, these developments would have moved the desultory Democratic fund-raising scandal out of the summer doldrums. But Reno has started moving on to the biggest target of all. Government sources told TIME that late last week the embattled Attorney General launched an inquiry centered on the President himself. Prompted by a task-force analysis that found the President's own telephone calls may have raised funds that ended up in proscribed "hard money" accounts, Reno opened...
...last week, nervous White House aides were wondering why they were getting so many requests from Justice for presidential phone records. Finally, sometime after 6 p.m. on Friday, David Kendall, one of Clinton's personal attorneys, phoned Reno's office and learned that the Attorney General had indeed taken the fateful step. Kendall then called White House counsel Charles Ruff. On Saturday afternoon, after TIME called for comment, the White House publicly confirmed the inquiry and promised its cooperation, adding, "We are confident that no laws were broken...
Under the terms of the Ethics in Government law, at the end of the initial 30-day review, Reno must determine whether the probe has dismissed the possibility of criminal conduct. If it hasn't, a 90-day preliminary inquiry must go forward. After that, if questions of fact or law remain, Reno will have no choice but to apply to a special three-judge panel for the appointment of an independent counsel. Reno has already made public the fact that she has started the 30-day clock ticking against Gore. The Vice President last week hired two lawyers, former...
WASHINGTON: The most dangerous question for Bill Clinton in the Justice Department review of his campaign fund-raising is not whether the President made illegal phone calls from the White House. TIME magazine reports that Attorney General Janet Reno's investigators are more concerned about whether those calls solicited "soft money" for party activities that made its way into "hard money" accounts financing specific campaigns...