Word: slipups
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...course, the FBI should have turned them over in the first place (which seems to have been a slipup rather than a malevolent plot). And one could argue that the bureau was just doing its job when it finally admitted the mistake. But the FBI didn't get caught in the act; it came forward and confessed its error. It behaved honorably. Would the problem ever have surfaced had the Justice Department decided not to do the right thing? Who would have caught them? And if some enterprising journalist did break the story years from now, who would care...
...sentence for racketeering; in Springfield, Mo. Corallo, former boss of the Lucchese family, was known as Tony Ducks for ducking subpoenas; he also ducked the limelight. Passionate about secrecy, he sat impassive in court, "like one of these big stone idols" said a prosecutor, as tapes played his rare slipup: a bugged 1982 talk with his driver on Mob control of New York City's construction industry...