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...time when any self-respecting paper must do aggressive investigative reporting, the Journal ranks high. Jerry Landauer scooped the country last August with the story that Spiro Agnew was under criminal investigation. Stanley Penn has produced major exclusives on the tangled finances of Robert Vesco and Howard Hughes...
...nearly a year, and flew by private jet to Freeport, on Grand Bahama Island. Arriving at 4 a.m., the entourage moved into four top-floor suites of the Xanadu Princess Hotel. Among its attractions is that it is in a country that recently refused to extradite Financier Robert Vesco to the U.S. to stand trial on an indictment for using telegraph services to carry out a fraud-one of the violations that Hughes is now charged with...
...plumbers, has promised to tell all that he knows after he is sentenced in January-and he knows plenty. Former Cabinet Members John Mitchell and Maurice Stans are scheduled to go on trial Jan. 9 on charges stemming from $200,000 in illegal campaign contributions by Robert Vesco, the accused swindler. And John Dean, the former White House counsel, is waiting to be sentenced...
...treaties on the subject with 81 nations; in general, they hold that when one country provides prima-facie evidence that the wanted man committed a crime, the other country will hand him over. Bahamian Magistrate Emmanuel Osadebay decided that the U.S. had not made a prima-facie case against Vesco before him. While the principle seems simple, Vesco's situation is only one more example of the maddening difficulties, tricky technicalities and extra-legal power plays that characterize some of the 45 or so extradition requests that the U.S. makes each year...
...sure, all the legal and diplomatic niceties are often observed. The exceptions sometimes occur because the final decision to extradite lies not with the judiciary, but with the executive. Even if the Costa Rican or Bahamian courts had upheld the U.S. application for Vesco, the executive branch of either country could have overruled or simply ignored the judicial extradition finding. The same is true in the U.S. No matter what the courts say, the Secretary of State has the authority to refuse to give up the fugitive...