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...decisions were hailed by prosecutors, who have already relied on the federal forfeiture provisions to grab more than $600 million in property from drug traffickers. Said Attorney General Dick Thornburgh: "This is a notable victory in the war on drugs." The rulings were denounced, however, by defense attorneys who fear that the fate of both their livelihood and their clients may depend on the whim of law-enforcement officials. "No one who has law school loans, a mortgage to pay and kids to feed can afford to practice this kind of law anymore," said Scott Wallace of the National Association...
...ethics becoming a tool for character assassination? Pennsylvania Congressman William Gray, the leading candidate to replace Coelho, had to ask Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to investigate the source of an apparently unfounded rumor that the FBI was looking into whether he had a no-show employee on his payroll. Majority leader Tom Foley, the likely successor to Wright, was asked to assure a group of conservative Democrats that nothing in his background would embarrass them...
...first find was Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh, who replaced the controversial Edwin Meese III in August and was retained by Bush shortly after he was elected president. The director of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics (IOP) for a little over a year, Thornburgh was even touted as a possible vice-presidential candidate before former President Ronald W. Reagan tapped him for the Justice post...
...Thornburgh's assistant, IOP Deputy Director David R. Runkel, became acting director of the Kennedy School's "bridge to the outside world," but he, too, was soon called to Washington--as a spokesperson for the attorney general's office...
...midst of its search to replace Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh, the Insititute of Politics (IOP) names former Member of Parliament Shirley Williams as its interim director...