Word: reno
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Perhaps that's why Reno cast a skeptical eye on the case against Lee. Reno's seven years at Justice--she's the longest-serving Attorney General ever--have made her the loneliest woman in Washington. The White House long ago concluded that she is aloof and politically tone-deaf, but those qualities helped her stand out in an Administration that often lacked ethical bearings. Aides admit she has a social worker's soft side that often gets the better of her, as it did in her handling of the Elian Gonzalez case. And congressional Republicans regard...
...true to form, in July 1997, Reno's staff turned down the FBI's request for permission to search Lee's computer because the agents lacked the "probable cause" evidence required by law. The agency appealed to Reno, who refused to budge. Her decision was correct, but FBI grumbling about it made its way, as many FBI complaints do, to Capitol Hill. There, congressional Republicans who were already angry at Reno for dragging her feet on another probe involving China--the 1997 investigation into the highly creative Clinton-Gore fund-raising practices during the 1996 campaign--began to keep...
...then, Republicans on Capitol Hill were up to speed on the Lee case. They had heard from Energy officials who suspected Lee, as well as some who believed he was innocent. But the House G.O.P. was in no mood to show any quarter to Reno or other officials on the case. That spring, several Senators tagged Reno in public for denying the FBI its warrant to inspect Lee's computer in 1997. By the fall, Reno and the rest of the Administration were under intense pressure--and not just from Republicans--to move against Lee. Energy Secretary Richardson was pushing...
...campus, riddling college sports with such corruption as game rigging and point shaving. Dozens of athletes have been convicted or suspended. When you follow the money in these cases, it leads to one place: Nevada. That's because student athletes profit from legal bets placed in Las Vegas and Reno casinos, and, far more significantly, bookies in the other 49 states funnel illegal bets into those casinos to protect themselves from having to pay out on unlikely winners at high odds...
Pendergast promised to pay Lee thousands of dollars if he could hold down the score of certain Northwestern games. Lee agreed and later recruited starting center Dewey Williams and a third player. A college friend put Pendergast in touch with an acquaintance, Brian Irving, who lived in Reno and agreed to place the bets. Over the next few weeks, Pendergast and Irving put the plan into gear. Three Northwestern games were selected: against Wisconsin on Feb. 15, Penn State on Feb. 22 and Michigan on March 1. Once the Nevada sports books set the line, Pendergast would telephone Lee with...