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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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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