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RENO BARS EXPANSION OF ESPY-TYSON PROBE
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By Michael Hedges, The Washington Times
Attorney General Janet Reno has stopped independent counsel Donald Smaltz
from expanding his investigation of former Agriculture Secretary Mike
Espy and Tyson Foods Inc., officials said.
Mr. Smaltz has been probing whether Mr. Espy accepted illegal gifts from
the Arkansas poultry giant. Investigators recently have been focusing on
suggestions of other bribes by Tyson, which the company has branded false.
"We don't comment on communications with the Department of Justice," said
Charles Bakaly, deputy independent counsel. "We remain committed to a
prompt, thorough and fair investigation."
But officials confirmed that Miss Reno had rejected a request by Mr.
Smaltz to broaden his jurisdiction.
The Smaltz probe, begun in September, recently has drawn fire from Mr.
Clinton and White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler.
In a March 3 press conference, Mr. Clinton was asked about the
independent counsels probing Whitewater, Mr. Espy and Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Henry Cisneros.
His answer singled out the Smaltz probe, which he said was an
investigation of a few thousand dollars in gratuities, "in return for
which he got a special counsel with 33 lawyers and a historian."
Mr. Cutler has made recent statements that Miss Reno should actually fire
Mr. Smaltz or one of the other independent counsels probing the Clinton
administration.
Tyson spokesman Archie Schaffer III recently visited several members of
Congress, including Sen. Lauch Faircloth, North Carolina Republican, to
discuss the Smaltz probe.
Mr. Faircloth said that this lobbying, Mr. Clinton's statement on the
Smaltz probe and Mr. Cutler's criticisms, "begs the question, what is the
Clinton administration so terribly afraid of?"
It was not clear what areas Mr. Smaltz had sought to explore before being
denied by Miss Reno. By law, the attorney general must approve any
expansion of an independent counsel investigation.
In recent months, a federal grand jury in Washington has subpoenaed
witnesses who have accused Tyson of giving illegal gratuities to other
officials, including Mr. Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas.
Mr. Smatlz's staff recently said in a letter to an Arkansas lawyer that
they were concerned Tyson Foods was using a vice president's lawsuit
against a grand jury witness to intimidate the witness and obstruct justice.
The case involved a statement in December by a former Tyson senior pilot,
Joe Henrickson, and his wife, Mary Ann, that Mr. Henrickson delivered
shipments of cash from an unnamed Tyson official to go-betweens for Gov.
Clinton several times during the 1980s.
Tyson has denied that charge.
Mr. Henrickson has been subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury in
Washington.
[end]
Source: The Washington Times
National Weekly Edition
April 3-9, 1995
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