Word: tysons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shock. The Agriculture Secretary, Mike Espy, ordered an investigation to trace the outbreak's cause, a mystery never conclusively solved. In the midst of that emergency, Espy found time to intervene in an obscure Puerto Rico dispute of great concern to the U.S. poultry industry, and especially to Tyson Foods, the world's largest chicken producer and the No. 1 poultry exporter to the island commonwealth...
...story of Espy's role in the Puerto Rico issue, which TIME has assembled from dozens of interviews and documents, emerges at a time when the White House has been struggling to refute allegations that Tyson enjoys undue influence with Clinton and his staff. As Arkansas' Governor, Clinton had close ties with Tyson, the state's largest employer. Several company executives helped finance Clinton's many campaigns. Tyson general counsel Jim Blair guided Hillary Clinton's fabulously successful commodities trades. Tyson was also the second largest contributor to a $220,000 fund Clinton used to pursue his Arkansas political agenda...
Espy, too, was intimately familiar with the poultry industry from his days as a Mississippi Congressman. The Justice Department and Congress are currently investigating Espy's association with Tyson, prompted by accusations that he accepted plane trips and football tickets from the chicken producer. (He later reimbursed the company.) The Agriculture Secretary's intervention in the Puerto Rican matter offers a vivid example of how Tyson benefits from its historic connections to Clinton. The case illustrates that such influence is best wielded subtly, and better still when third parties can front as the ones seeking favors and getting them...
...either the DNA tests or the police discoveries at Simpson's house are admitted into evidence, Shapiro may have to rely on other strategies. Defense adviser Alan Dershowitz, the ubiquitous specialist in appeals (Klaus von Bulow, Leona Helmsley and Mike Tyson), suggested one possibility during an appearance on PBS's Charlie Rose Show. "Now you're going to see the defense brutally attacking these victims," he said. "By the end of this trial, nobody's going to have a kind thing to say about the two dead people." Last week Dershowitz insisted to TIME his words were "a general comment...
Attorney General Janet Reno asked for the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy's alleged cozy dealings with Arkansas' largest poultry processor. The Justice Department has been tryingto determine whether Espy received free travel and gifts from Tyson Foods, Inc., some of whose executives have close ties to Bill Clinton. James Blair, the company's lead attorney, for example, is considered an intimate friend and troubleshooter for the president. Espy, for his part, denies any wrongdoing, including that he's gone easy on poultry firms, and he pledged to cooperate with Reno's investigators.parpar