Word: reno
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...investigation of Hazel O'Leary is bringing Janet Reno closer to appointing an independent counsel (TIME Daily...
WASHINGTON: Janet Reno ? who has sat for months on the fence between loyalty and legality ? may finally be making her move. The 30 days that Reno's task force was allowed for its investigation of former energy secretary Hazel O'Leary is up Friday, but Reno seems likely to give the investigation a 60-day extension. O'Leary herself has already been informed that the task force needs more time; Reno's official announcement could come at any minute...
...Gore. After the fundraiser in the temple and phone calls in the White House, the focus is on one of his top aides and money-raisers, Peter Knight. TIME reports that Knight is the target of a Justice Department investigation over his Clinton-Gore ?96 campaign activities. Although Janet Reno is refusing to turn over the investigation to an independent counsel, Justice is probing Knight's connections to a Massachusetts manufacturer that won $33 million in contracts and breaks from the Clinton Administration ? while raising $132,000 for the President and his party. TIME?s Senior Washington Correspondent Michael Weisskopf...
...While Reno isn't budging on the independent counsel issue, the Attorney General is increasingly dissatisfied with the slow pace of her task force. Sources tell TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon that while the task force targets the least significant players in the scandal, Reno sides with the FBI's push for a "more muscular" approach...
...Vice President was not aware that money was being designated for the federal hard money account," DNC spokeswoman Amy Weiss Tobe said. Will the shrugging defense do the trick? TIME's campaign finance expert Michael Weisskopf says it might. "This will focus some more pressure on Janet Reno to name an independent investigator," he said, "but I think the explanation by Weiss Tobe is probably persuasive." So Al won't be sweating it out with the special prosecutors just...