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...included a maintenance worker, a printer, a retired teacher and a retired real estate broker. Three of the jurors had worked as security guards or patrol officers in the U.S. military. Three others were members of the National Rifle Association. One was the brother of a retired L.A. police sergeant...
...defense attorneys also got jurors to believe that the prostrate King, not the skull-drumming officers, was "controlling the incident." He could have ended the beating, they contended, by simply adopting a compliant posture. Insisting on the stand that King repeatedly refused to lie facedown on the ground, Sergeant Stacey Koon contended that King was attempting to "either escape or attack my officers." Koon defended his part of the assault on King -- which included more than half a dozen blows to the head from Koon alone -- as "managed and controlled use of force...
...seminar was held at the Harvard Faculty Club in a room guarded by five Secret Service agents and University Police Sergeant John M. Francis, who refused to say what was going on inside. The event was not listed on the weekly calendar of events posted at the Center for International Affairs...
...House Democrats have been saying behind closed doors. To them, Foley could have cleaned up the House bank before it grew into the most damaging congressional scandal in decades. Instead, he has exposed them to ridicule -- and possible defeat this November -- by failing to crack down on former House sergeant at arms Jack Russ, whose sloppy oversight of the now defunct bank permitted members to write overdrafts long after Russ had assured the Speaker that new procedures to prevent such abuses had been installed. Even after Foley was warned by comptroller general Charles Bowsher in 1989 that Russ himself...
...their fingers in the Speaker's direction, insisting that he had ample opportunity to reform House operations. Foley was told by investigators from the General Accounting Office in January 1990 that the banking operation needed cleaning up. The Speaker might have nipped the problem in the bud by firing sergeant at arms Jack Russ, who ran the bank, but critics say the wily administrator used his inside knowledge of Hill affairs to protect his position. Foley let Russ off with a warning, and asked an outside group of bankers to look at the system. Even though their April 1990 report...