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Even the American Bar Association, which took a strong hand in crafting the original statute, may change its position in February, when its house of delegates will vote on an A.B.A. task-force report that recommends scrapping the law. If it must be kept, the task force argues, only the President, Vice President and Attorney General should be covered by it. Also, the Attorney General should have a role in selecting the independent counsels, and the Justice Department should not be tied to a hair-trigger threshold of evidence in deciding whether a counsel should be appointed. Other critics argue...
Meanwhile, in a report made public last Friday, the U.S. General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, concluded after an eight-month probe that Citibank helped Salinas build "a money-managing system that disguised the origin, destination and beneficial owner of the funds involved...
Noting that Citibank is cooperating with an ongoing Justice Department investigation of the Salinas matter, bank spokesman Richard J. Howe declined to answer specific questions about the GAO report. He said, without citing specific examples, that the report "contains errors of fact and interpretation" and that "it ignores recent progress in strengthening law and industry procedures, which Citibank strongly supports in keeping with our commitment to combat money laundering." Citibank declined to make Elliott available for comment but has in the past denied that she or the bank violated any laws. She remains a Citibank employee in good standing...
...CCSR voted in favor of a proposal asking General Electric "to adopt a public education effort along the Hudson River Valley, the Housatonic River Valley and other regions where appropriate to warn local residents and visitors of the dangers of fish consumption [due to PCB contamination] and prepare a report to shareholders...
...ACSR voted in favor of the proposal, and the CCSR abstained "following long-standing CCSR precedent," the report said...