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...Mbeki's troubles escalated into what the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), a key ANC ally that has officially endorsed Zuma, calls a "major constitutional crisis." On Sept. 23, Mbeki suspended the head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Vusi Pikoli, who also oversees an elite investigative unit known as "the Scorpions." This time, Mbeki was happy to cite an "irretrievable breakdown" of relations between Pikoli and his boss, the justice minister. The real reason for the firing, say Mbeki's opponents, was Pikoli's delay in reinstating the corruption charges against Zuma - and his issue, on Sept...
This evidence was heard by lawyers from U.S. Attorney Canary's office, representatives of Alabama's Republican attorney general and an attorney from the Justice Department's public-integrity unit in Washington. But in an unusual exercise of prosecutorial discretion, nearly all the payments and donations went uninvestigated. And when Siegelman's defense team, which had obtained Young's statements amid tens of thousands of documents provided in discovery, raised his accusations briefly in court, a judge quickly ruled them irrelevant...
...We’ve thought about possibly putting some starters back there,” Murphy said of the special teams unit. “We put a ton of emphasis on it. We have to execute better, because clearly, we’re struggling a little...
...This evidence was heard by lawyers from U.S. Attorney Canary's office, representatives of Alabama's Republican attorney general and an attorney from the Justice Department's public-integrity unit in Washington. But in an unusual exercise of prosecutorial discretion, nearly all the payments and donations went uninvestigated. And when Siegelman's defense team, which had obtained Young's statements amid tens of thousands of documents provided in discovery, raised his accusations briefly in court, a judge quickly ruled them irrelevant...
...said Chaz M. Beasley ’08, who plans to speak at the hearing. “It keeps businesses from taking advantage of the fact that people don’t know prices, which allows them to drive prices up.” A unit set up by the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG), a nonprofit advocacy organization that provides support for student activists, will also hold a press conference before tomorrow’s 11 a.m. hearing. MASSPIRG Student Chapters Program Director Saffron E. Zomer said that textbook prices have grown prohibitively high for students...