One of them was a real-estate agent in Monmouth County Lisette could almost remember his first name.

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"At first, because he had the bandana on I couldn't tell if it was a male or a female, " Forney told a Pima County Sheriff's detective and an FBI agent.

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"It's really theater of the absurd, " says Edward FitzGerald, a former FBI agent who won the position of Cuyahoga County executive after fed-up residents here disbanded the old county commission form of government under Mr. Dimora.

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Wells Fargo argued that the county should have made service on an executive officer or an appointed agent.

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Lib Dem county councillor Brendan Glynane said one of the those appointed was the commissioner's election agent.

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After all, Mr MacLeod had also stood as an independent Conservative against Ms Jones's election agent, Des Whicher who was also convicted last week at the county council elections held on the same day as the 1997 general election.

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