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...year, the Department of Education issued new federal rules aimed at curtailing financial exploitation. Though these new policies were well intentioned, they were also more lenient than many state regulations already in place. The federal intervention could weaken current state laws and undo the accomplishments of New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo in convincing dozens of universities and lending corporations to agree upon a more stringent code of conduct in lender negotiations...
...decision to destroy evidence related to an ongoing investigation is highly unusual and has raised questions over the possibility of CIA involvement," Egli says, pointing out that during his press conference Couchepin conceded that the Swiss government had also blocked an investigation into charges levelled by the federal attorney that Urs Tinner was engaging in illegal actions for a foreign country. Allegations that Tinner was a CIA agent were made in a book The Nuclear Jihadist by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins, as well as by the former U.N. weapons inspector David Albright. "What strikes me as interesting is what...
...Osborne's has been a fairly typical capital appeal, in which the defense team heaps allegations on the original lawyer - the high-living Mostiler died of a coronary in 2000 - while the prosecution extols the brilliance of the condemned man's trial attorney. "Mostiler was the toughest trial lawyer in Spalding County," one prosecutor declared of a man far better known for engineering guilty pleas than for winning cases in the courtroom...
...Which leaves the alleged racist remarks and the attorney's apparent belief that his own client deserved...
...this individual scrutiny possible when the prisoner's attorney slurs him and says he deserves to die? For Curtis Osborne, the ultimate insult is that such a crucial question is barred from review...