Janet Reno, First Woman to Serve As Attorney General, Died at 78
The United States’ first woman to serve as attorney general, Janet Reno, died early Monday at the age of 78.
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Despite Protests From Some Heavyweights, Ex-Chief of Kosher Slaughterhouse in Iowa Gets 27 Years
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the end, the weight of a letter signed by a dozen ex-U.S. Attorneys, a former Solicitor General and six ex-Attorney Generals including Janet Reno, Ramsey Clark and Edwin Meese III, carried little weight in the sentencing Tuesday of Sholom Rubashskin, the former chief executive of an Iowa kosher meat packing…
Ex-Attorney Generals Sign Letter Saying Feds Push For a Life Sentence for Ex-Head of Iowa Meat Plant Not So Kosher
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More than a dozen ex-U.S. Attorneys, a former Solicitor General and six ex-Attorney Generals including Janet Reno, Ramsey Clark and Edwin Meese III, have signed a letter written to an Iowa federal judge questioning “the government’s extreme sentencing position” regarding Sholom Rubashskin, the former chief executive of an Iowa kosher meat…
Ex-Janet Reno Aide Expected to Get Nod for U.S. Atty Post in Miami
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The former deputy chief of staff for Ex-Atty Gen. Janet Reno is the likely candidate for the U.S. Attorney post in Miami, the Miami Herald is reporting. Wifredo Ferrer, the son of Cuban immigrants, appears to the be the front runner. “First of all, he understood better than anybody…
Ex-Atty. Gen. Janet Reno Lends Voice to Help Wrongfully Convicted Mariel Cuban
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The not-often heard from ex-Atty. Gen. Janet Reno is lending her name to help a Mariel Cuban refugee who was threatened with deportation after he was erroneously convicted and imprisoned in 1983 for sexual assault, the Miami Herald reports. The paper reports that the attorney for refugee Orlando Boquete, a Cudjoe…