Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the FBI affidavits explaining the search warrants remained under seal, pending indictments. But one revealing warrant in St. Louis provided a glimpse of the type of cases the investigators are developing. The target was Paisley, a veteran Boeing Co. official hired by Lehman in 1981 as his top procurement aide. Paisley was a tough administrator who laudably joined his boss in trying to shake up the Navy's cozy relationship with contractors. He quit in April 1987, just before a new law went into effect barring Defense procurement officials from having business relationships with the department...
...warrant contends that Paisley passed "classified and/or confidential" information to Thomas Gunn, vice president for marketing at McDonnell Aircraft Corp. in St. Louis. That information helped McDonnell Douglas formulate its plans to sell updated F-18 fighter aircraft to Switzerland and Korea. Paisley allegedly also passed along details of a competing proposal by General Dynamics to sell its F-16 fighters to the same potential buyers. He was said to have acquired a secret study on the helicopter needs of the Marine Corps and its advanced chopper, dubbed Killer Egg, to give McDonnell Douglas an edge in future sales...
...Louis warrant, the FBI indicated that its inquiry was aimed at finding evidence of bribery of public officials, conflict of interest, theft of government property, mail fraud, wire fraud, false statements and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Whether any of those crimes can be proved against anyone remains to be seen. As rumors of impending indictments swept the beleaguered Pentagon, Carlucci took a calm view. He advised, "Let's not jump off the cliff before we find out what we're talking about here." That may take a while, but the timing could be awkward. If the Justice Department sticks...
...trial in Grahamstown lasted 78 days, and there were emotional pleas for mercy. But after finding two white policemen guilty of murdering a black man, Justice N.W. Zietsman last week did not hesitate to apply harsh punishment. The sentence: death by hanging. The condemned men, Warrant Officer Leon de Villiers, 37, and Constable David Goosen, 27, were members of a ten-man antiriot unit in eastern Cape province that went on a "black-bashing" spree during disturbances in 1986. After concluding that one of the victims, Mlungisi Stuurman, had been too badly beaten to be let go, De Villiers ordered...
...brown plastic trash bags in front of the house. Clawing through the contents with rubber gloves, officers uncovered a rich nest of drug-related paraphernalia: razor blades, straws containing cocaine residue, and phone bills listing calls to people with drug records. Based on this evidence, the police obtained a warrant to search the house, found cocaine and hashish inside, and arrested Greenwood. He protested the original warrantless investigation of his trash bags, claiming it violated the Fourth Amendment ban against unreasonable searches and seizures. Two California courts agreed with Greenwood, but last week the highest court resoundingly rejected his argument...