Word: morgenthau
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State Department foot dragging was eventually brought to the President's attention by the Treasury Department, whose Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr., was Jewish. F.D.R. responded by setting up an interdepartmental War Refugee Board that ultimately rescued and repatriated about 200,000 European Jews...
...federal offenses, including the attempted assassination of the President; today, only a drug-related killing is a capital crime. Those on the front lines are appalled. "I know of no law-enforcement professional who believes the ((new)) death-penalty provisions would affect public safety in the slightest," says Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan's respected district attorney. Equally troublesome, declared Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, the death penalty "remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice and mistake." According to a 1987 Stanford University survey, at least 23 Americans have been wrongly executed in the 20th century. Just since 1973 an additional 48 have...
...verdict was a bitter disappointment for New York district attorney Robert Morgenthau, whose early zeal was a driving force behind the July 1991 seizure of the bank. Despite the setback, however, his investigation to date has yielded convictions of B.C.C.I. and its principal front man, indictments of its key executives, and forfeitures totaling $750 million...
...ROBERT MORGENTHAU...
...news release, New York District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau said that Young and Liberatore earned more than $500,000 from the arrangement. If Manufacturers had held the Colombia debt instrument, it would have made $1 million...