Word: reno
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Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros is expected to resign any day now. The White House is also trying to get Attorney General Janet Reno to resign. Administration officials are planting leaks about her battle with Parkinson's disease to try to force her out. Not even Bob Dole was treated so harshly...
...demerits for going to bat for ValuJet in the days immediately after its passenger jet crashed in the Everglades, but might stay in the job if Bill Daley, brother of Chicago mayor Richard Daley, doesn't get it. The White House reportedly would like to get rid of Janet Reno, but the highly popular attorney general would be difficult to fire. In addition, Robert Rubin at Treasury and CIA Director John Deutch may be shuffled into new jobs after today's resignations...
...opposition, over the years Whitehurst has dispatched hundreds of memos to the Justice Department, critiquing his colleagues' performance and accusing the FBI of a pro-prosecution slant in dozens of investigations. "Science," he says, "cannot be a whore to a political agenda." Last fall at Attorney General Janet Reno's request, Justice Inspector General Michael Bromwich assembled an international team of forensic scientists to conduct an exhaustive investigation of Whitehurst's charges. Though the report is not due until the end of this year, TIME has learned that it is likely to reject the most serious allegations, though...
...White House ever been more blatantly used for political fund raising?" asked Republican National Chairman Haley Barbour at a news conference Thursday. The White House response was to assert that it had no indications that anything improper was going on during Huang's visits. Meanwhile, Attorney General Janet Reno announced the Justice Department began reviewing allegations of campaign finance violations. Huang organized a slew of hefty campaign contributions totaling $4 to $5 million, some of which have already turned out to be illegal. In late September, he arranged a $250,000 campaign donation which was subsequently returned, and donations from...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Attorney General Janet Reno announced the U.S. made 34 arrests in five cities Friday to break up an international heroin smuggling ring. Operated mainly by Nigerian women, and encouraged by Nigeria's military government, the organization moved heroin from Southeast Asia through Central America and Mexico and into the United States. Working in cooperation with police in Thailand, France and Britain, federal prosecutors and agents took almost a year to build their case and make arrests. President Clinton had high praise for the operation, which he said was part of U.S. effort to cripple major international drug-trafficking...