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...immunity the Cali cartel enjoys from prosecution is a matter of intense concern to Bush Administration officials. While Henry Orjuela Caballero is in jail in New York State awaiting trial on federal drug-trafficking conspiracy charges, brother Carlos is out on bail on similar charges filed against him in Los Angeles. Another brother, Jaime, the family boss, is free in Colombia. So are Don Chepe Santacruz, the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers and such rising powers as the Urdinola brothers. "You can't destroy the organization without lopping off its head," says DEA's Bonner. "The tentacles grow back. If the Cali...
Bowsher warned that taxpayers may also have to bail out the banking industry if Washington cannot agree on how to replenish the dwindling Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation fund. It could lose more than $23 billion over the next two years as the commercial real estate depression causes hundreds of shaky banks to fail...
...wasn't my will to be a rat. I was arrested after the FBI had wired my construction partner, this guy John Pastorella, for 18 months. I was in jail trying to make bail, and I believed I was going to be killed there, probably with the blacks carrying out the order. I got the word. And the next morning I called the FBI and told them to get me the hell out. I was scared to death. I was shakin'. I blame Scarfo. He's the guy who wanted to kill me. I'm 55 years...
Winnie Mandela, however, is free on minimal bail -- roughly $70 -- and pursuing an appeal that could take many months to be decided. Even if she loses, there is some speculation that State President F.W. de Klerk will pardon her rather than jail the wife of his main partner in negotiations to shape a multiracial regime. That partner, A.N.C. deputy president Nelson Mandela, took a mild line. He expressed confidence that his wife's name would eventually be entirely cleared and said he would continue talking to De Klerk...
...defendants did not appear. Defense lawyers said some out on bail evidently were afraid to come. One defendant said two others accused with him were still in the hospital being treated for injuries inflicted in torture sessions...