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...prosecuted, although the defiant mayor says the FDA couldn't stand the political fallout. "It would be a serious mistake to prosecute an elected official," he says. "If they're going to prosecute me, they better prosecute all those senior citizens on the bus to Canada too." --By Nathan Thornburgh...
...former CEO Bernard Ebbers. But just last week, MCI's outside auditor, KPMG, testified before a Senate committee that it still could not vouch for the company's internal controls. GSA cited a KPMG report as well as reviews of the company conducted by former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh and William McLucas as being decisive factors in its decision to suspend the carrier...
...gregarious nonagenarian reveled in his stardom: he played for the Pope, surrounded himself with women and transported millions of listeners to a simpler, more romantic era with his rich baritone. He was, as Buena Vista Social Club collaborator Ry Cooder put it, "the last of the best." --By Nathan Thornburgh...
...rack of medals for his Vietnam service. After law school at the University of Virginia and a stint in private practice, he became a federal prosecutor and then U.S. Attorney in Boston. "It seemed to me he stood head and shoulders above all the other persons mentioned," says Dick Thornburgh, the former Attorney General who tapped Mueller to become Assistant Attorney General for the criminal division in 1990. In that role, however, while prosecuting the messy B.C.C.I. banking scandal, Mueller drew criticism for getting into an unnecessary jurisdictional tussle with the Manhattan district attorney...
...Boston in 1982 and became a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office there. When his boss, William Weld, moved to Washington in 1986 to become assistant attorney general for the criminal division under Attorney General Ed Meese, Mueller became the U.S. Attorney. In 1990, then-Attorney General Dick Thornburgh tapped Mueller for the criminal division post...