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...testify against their husbands, compels state agencies to turn over the names of thousands of workers who might have a grudge against their employer--all in order to learn whether a Cabinet member got some free football tickets and a few other gifts? The answer: independent counsel Donald Smaltz, who has become a walking, talking argument for changing the way this nation investigates its high public officials...
Chicken king DON TYSON, long one of independent counsel DONALD SMALTZ's prime targets in the investigation of former Agriculture Secretary MIKE ESPY, has been thrown a bone. Summoned before a grand jury last week, Tyson, the retired chairman of Tyson Foods, was planning to take the Fifth when he was corralled in the hallway and offered immunity by Smaltz's team. It's a deal, replied the astonished Tyson. For two days he testified about his few contacts with Espy and the small favors, like tickets to a Dallas Cowboys playoff game, he provided for him. Smaltz...
...Smaltz's investigators came upon Henrickson when they discovered a lawsuit the pilot had filed against his former employer and called him in for questioning about it. Henrickson's relationship with his immediate boss had grown strained in recent years. Then in 1993 a fellow pilot was fired for what Henrickson and other pilots felt was a minor infraction. Henrickson tried to intervene. Two months later, he too was fired. He then brought the lawsuit, charging retaliatory dismissal. His personnel records were clean, reflecting regular raises and promotions, but the suit was dismissed in October. "Under current Arkansas...
...Smaltz has served Henrickson with a subpoena to appear before a grand jury and given him a two-page letter of immunity, which protects the pilot from criminal charges and subjects him to perjury charges if he is lying. The former Tyson captain has also volunteered to take a lie-detector test. In his first conversation with TIME, Smaltz did not admit to knowing Henrickson. But when asked about the letter of immunity and presented with information that TIME had gathered, the independent counsel spoke with unusual candor. He found Henrickson's story "very interesting," he said, partly because...
Meanwhile, Espy remains a major focus of the probe. Smaltz says he is investigating more than 30 allegations against the Agriculture Secretary. Espy's lawyer, Reid Weingarten, declared that Smaltz's growing staff and multiple subpoenas "suggest an investigation out of control or one with a funny agenda." His client, who leaves office Dec. 31, certainly faces a far longer wait for a resolution than nearly anyone imagined a few months...