Probe Clears Ashcroft in Lobby Case
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Attorney General John Ashcroft did not violate anti-lobbying laws when he gave a series of speeches last year promoting the anti-terror Patriot Act, Justice Department internal investigators have concluded.
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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was cleared today by a Milan court of charges that he bribed judges in the 1980s.
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US Attorney General John Ashcroft heralded the success of Operation Web Snare, a multi-agency crackdown on cybercrime that led to the arrrest or conviction of more than 150 people for a variety
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Description: NPR&#39;s Noah Adams talks with NPR&#39;s Don Gonyea about US Attorney General John Ashcroft&#39;s recent announcement that he would step down.
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The officer who shot one of two brothers arrested during an anti-terrorism raid on an innocent Muslim family's house in London was cleared of any wrongdoing by a police watchdog.
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The wife of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian is cleared of wrongdoing in a corruption scandal, prosecutors say.
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John Ashcroft, who was a proponent of encryption and privacy as a US senator and a champion of expanded Internet surveillance as the nation&#39;s attorney general, resigned on Tuesday.
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An inquiry cleared Australia's government of wrongdoing in an Iraqi oil-for-food scandal Monday, but recommended top officials of the monopoly wheat exporter face charges for paying more than $200 million to the Saddam Hussein regime.
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SCHEVENINGEN, Netherlands  - U.S. Attorney General  John Ashcroft said on Thursday the Bush administration was  likely to appeal against a U.S. District Court ruling that part  of the Patriot Act was unconstitutional.
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LONDON -- British prosecutors said yesterday that they would not charge anyone in a campaign finance inquiry in which former prime minister Tony Blair became the first sitting British head of government to be questioned by police in a criminal investigation.
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An official inquiry into the corruption that riddled the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq has cleared the Australian government but cited 12 top executives for bribing Saddam Hussein's regime.
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Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a major blow in the war on terror in March 2003: The government had charged a Muslim cleric with personally handing $20 million to Osama bin Laden.
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[Hollywood News]: Los Angeles, Dec 2 : A fan who stood accused of stalking singer Sheryl Crow for 15 months has been cleared on all counts at the Manhattan Supreme Court.
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Police and prosecutors study the implications of the Omagh bomb trial after a man is cleared of all charges.
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A former Hewlett-Packard Co. ethics director and two investigators employed by the company won dismissal of the last remaining state charges stemming from a boardroom spying scandal at the computer maker.
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In a Dec. 21 story about a Justice Department appeal in a congressional bribery case, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the agency was investigating Rep. Jerry Lewis's dealings with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The Justice Department is investigating ties between Lewis, R-Calif., and lobbyist Bill Lowery, not Abramoff.
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Outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft gestures while addressing the Federalist Society&#39;s 18th annual national convention in Washington, Friday, Nov. 12, 2004.