The Essex County, New Jersey, grand jury issued its "no bill" Tuesday, said Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray.

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Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, acting as a special prosecutor to look into claims made by female members of the Brooklyn Democrat's staff, said his office found no basis for a chargeable offense.

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First, a local prosecutor, clearly acting on orders from higher up, indicted a prominent secular academic - a university rector named Yucel Askin - on preposterously trumped up charges.

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Critics, whose concerns have increased with the ferocity of the sanctions imposed, say that by acting simultaneously as investigator, prosecutor, jury and sentencing judge, the commission is denying defendant firms the basic right to be heard by an impartial tribunal.

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James Woolsey, former Secretary of Education William Bennett, former Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Victoria Toensing, former Under Secretary of State William Schneider, former Deputy Assistants to the President for Homeland Security Mark Holman and Richard Falkenrath, former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy and former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Frank J.

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Upon announcing Shareef's arrest, US Federal Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald insisted that he was acting on his own and that he had no outside inspiration for his decision to commit mass murder for Allah.

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