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Attorney General Janet Reno has expanded theJustice Department review of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's business dealings. Justice will look at Brown's $71,000 investment in a deteriorating low-income housing project that defaulted on a $6.1 million state loan. Secretary Brown's attorney, Reid Weingarten, said today that the feds are responding to Sunday's Los Angeles Times report that said the secretary misreported the location of the housing project on financial disclosure forms and reaped $175,000 in tax breaks from the investment. Weingarten claims there was no wrongdoing. The Justice Department was already considering whether...
Attorney General Janet Reno wants states tomake sex offenders register their addresseswith police for at least a decade after they are released from prison. Reno today proposed minimum standards for state notification laws under a provision of the 1994 federal crime law that will cut off 10 percent of federal anti-crime grants to states that do not meet the standards. Forty states already have established sex offender notification laws. But the statutes vary widely and judges have struck down all or part of the laws in seven states. TIME New York correspondent Adam Cohen says the new standards...
Attorney General Janet Reno formally requested the appointment of yet another independent counsel--this time to investigate Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros' messy financial arrangements with a former mistress. Though Cisneros has previously admitted the affair and payments to the woman, Reno concluded that the Secretary misrepresented the size of the payments to fbi agents during a background check. Cisneros denied any wrongdoing and at the President's urging announced that he would not step down...
...contrast, the Attorney General had good news for Transportation Secretary Federico Pena. Reno called off an inquiry that had been scrutinizing a contract won by Pena's former investment firm shortly after he became Secretary; the Justice Department had also been looking into whether the city of Denver, during Pena's mayoralty, had misused federal funds intended for the city's new airport. Reno said there was no credible evidence that Pena had violated any federal laws...
That proved attractive to an influential audience. Justice officials report that Bill Clinton read it, circled the bits on gun detection and passed it to Janet Reno. Suddenly weapons detection was high priority...