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PROBES APLENTY. Just five days before he formally announced his resignation in order to run for the Senate, Attorney General Dick Thornburgh declared that the Justice Department will issue "far-reaching indictments" within "the next month or six weeks." Stung by charges that Justice was moving too slowly against B.C.C.I., the department seems to be trying to catch up to the fraud, bribery and grand-larceny allegations brought by a New York State grand jury in late July. But some disgruntled law-enforcement sources told TIME that major federal indictments were unlikely anytime soon because Justice probes in Washington...
...inertia, the Justice Department said a task force of 10 federal prosecutors was studying B.C.C.I. activities in Washington, Atlanta, Miami and Tampa. Subjects of the investigation will include U.S. politicians and other leaders suspected of receiving millions of dollars from B.C.C.I. in payoffs and bribes. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, while denying charges of foot dragging, assured a House subcommittee that his & department has "committed all necessary resources to unraveling any violations of the United States federal and criminal laws and pursuing any evidence that exists of those violations." At the same time, the House Banking Committee said it would hold...
...federal-appeals-court judge who was an also-ran on George Bush's list of potential Supreme Court nominees, EDITH JONES, could be in line for another high post. Bush may tap the ultraconservative Texas jurist to succeed Dick Thornburgh as Attorney General. The main stumbling block is that Jones has no trial and administrative experience. One solution would be to persuade Thornburgh's highly regarded deputy, William Barr, to stay on under Jones. But that may be a hard sell because many at Justice consider Barr more than qualified...
Walsh discussed the case with TIME, including how disagreements with Attorney General Dick Thornburgh over the use of classified information hindered his investigation. Excerpts...
...Joseph Fernandez case I think he grossly underestimated the value of that case and the strength of that case. ((Fernandez, a former CIA agent, was accused of lying about his involvement in helping supply arms to the contras. The charges against him were dismissed in 1989 because Thornburgh would not release classified documents Fernandez needed to present his defense...