Word: weingarten
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...ahead in the polls, it may take more than a definite decision to run for Mrs. Clinton to win next November. New Yorkers are a cynical lot, and Mrs. Clinton's apparent flip-flopping on Middle East questions - and her carefully scripted exchange with teacher's union president Randi Weingarten Monday, in which Weingarten supposedly cajoled Clinton into announcing - aren't likely to impress. So the real question isn't where Hillary lives, but whether she's ready to rumble...
Mike Espy's lawyer Reid Weingarten was right on the money when he dismissed the prosecution's case as a "relentless pursuit of the trivial." Espy's transgressions were of the sort better judged in the court of public opinion than in a court of law. In that venue, he has already been punished. Despite the bravado he flashed on the courthouse steps when he denounced independent counsel Donald C. Smaltz as a "schoolyard bully," Espy knows he blew a historic opportunity by losing sight of age-old black moral traditions...
...that he had a clerk alter an itinerary for a January 1994 Dallas Cowboys football game to delete references to Tyson before giving the document to investigators. Smaltz is likely to pursue indictments of Tyson, its head of governmental affairs and one of its lobbyists. Espy's lawyer Reid Weingarten did not deny any of the charges but accused Smaltz of distorting "trivial, personal and entirely benign activities" into criminal wrongdoing...
...strategy and tactics employed by the U.S. team of political advisers better befit the selling of soap than the election of a President." LENNARD B. WEINGARTEN Ferney-Voltaire, France...
Attorney General Janet Reno has expanded theJustice Department review of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's business dealings. Justice will look at Brown's $71,000 investment in a deteriorating low-income housing project that defaulted on a $6.1 million state loan. Secretary Brown's attorney, Reid Weingarten, said today that the feds are responding to Sunday's Los Angeles Times report that said the secretary misreported the location of the housing project on financial disclosure forms and reaped $175,000 in tax breaks from the investment. Weingarten claims there was no wrongdoing. The Justice Department was already considering whether...