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...cartel. They have dismantled a succession of distribution rings. Federal narcotics trafficking and conspiracy charges, which form the basis for extradition requests, have been lodged against Cali's reputed financiers Gilberto and Miguel Rodriguez, their four Orjuela Caballero cousins and dozens of other senior figures. U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh has asked the Colombian government to extradite them. Santacruz's half-brother and confidant, Luis Santacruz Echeverri, has been convicted on conspiracy charges in Miami, and his personal financial adviser, Edgar Alberto Garcia Montilla, has been jailed in Luxembourg for money laundering...
...decades the eight universities that make up the Ivy League, along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have got together and matched one another's financial-aid offers to students. It was an attempt, they say, to avoid bidding wars for the most desirable prospects. But Attorney General Dick Thornburgh charged the schools with price fixing, a violation of the Sherman Antitrust...
...terms of what it says about the proper role of the crime victim in the criminal-justice system," argues Richard Samp, a lawyer with the conservative Washington Legal Foundation, which is representing the Zvolanek family. This political symbolism has not been lost on the Bush Administration; Attorney General Dick Thornburgh made a rare appearance before the Supreme Court to argue that a jury should be given "the full picture of the nature and extent of the harm that's been caused to the family...
...evidence." On two prior occasions, the high court ruled that at the time of sentencing in capital cases, it is improper to introduce testimony dealing with the impact of a crime on a victim's family. The Bush Administration is sending no less a figure than Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to the court to argue for Tennessee's position allowing such impact evidence. After last week's ruling in the McCleskey case, many legal experts are concerned that the Justices this time will side with Tennessee. "The court is quite systematically knocking out regulations, streamlining the road to the electric...
Last week's federal action was prompted largely by the concerns of national civil rights leaders. Attorney General Thornburgh's decision to review claims of police brutality came after a meeting with Democratic Congressmen John Conyers Jr. of Michigan and Edolphus Towns of New York, members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Said Benjamin Hooks, head of the N.A.A.C.P. : "Police brutality is one of the recurring, persistent questions that has never died down because it exists all over the nation...