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...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...
WASHINGTON: The exhaustive investigation into former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy has been an embarrassment for Janet Reno in both its aggressive methods and its distinct lack of results. But after almost three years and untold millions of dollars, independent counsel Donald Smaltz has finally netted the big one: an indictment of Espy himself for 39 counts of illegally soliciting and accepting gifts, trips, sports tickets, and other favors totaling $35,000 ? from companies over which he, as USDA head, had regulatory power...
RICHARD JEWELL Reno apologizes to ex-Atlanta suspect: he was hoodwinked...