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Subject: SLS: Corruption prosecutor named to Starr team (fwd)
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>Corruption prosecutor named to Starr team
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> 06/23/97 08:52:20 PM
>
> By Manny Garcia
>
>
> Knight-Ridder Newspapers
>
> (KRT)
>
> MIAMI -- Bruce Udolf, the chief
> federal prosecutor for public
> corruption in South Florida, is
> headed to Washington, D.C. next
> month to join the prosecution
> team investigating possible
> wrongdoings by President Clinton
> and first lady Hillary Rodham
> Clinton.
>
> Udolf, who has supervised the
> prosecution of drug dealers,
> corrupt judges and local
> politicians, has accepted a
> one-year stint to work with
> Whitewater special prosecutor
> Kenneth Starr.
>
> ``I'm honored that Judge Starr has
> asked me to join the fine team of
> professionals that he has
> assembled,'' said Udolf, who is
> currently supervising Operation
> Greenpalm, the federal
> investigation into corruption in
> Miami and Dade County
> governments.
>
> Udolf, 45, is one of four federal
> officials tapped by Starr to
> examine allegations of
> wrongdoing by the Clintons and
> others in their Arkansas
> investments, in the firings of the
> White House travel office staff to
> make way for Clinton friends and
> in the collection of FBI files on
> members of the Bush
> administration.
>
> ``I'm looking forward to the
> challenging work ahead,'' Udolf
> said Monday.
>
> Also tapped are: John D. Bates, a
> federal prosecutor in Washington
> D.C.; Michael Emmick, the chief
> public corruption prosecutor in
> Los Angeles; and Mary Anne
> Wirth, district counsel for the
> Immigration and Naturalization
> Service in New York.
>
> Starr called Udolf a month ago
> and asked him to join the
> prosecution team. The lawyers
> met years ago when Starr worked
> as solicitor general, the lawyer
> who argues the government's side
> before the U.S. Supreme Court.
>
> Udolf, an expert in bribery and
> racketeering cases, has been a
> federal prosecutor for 10 years.
> He will relocate to Washington
> and is scheduled to start in July.
>
> (EDITORS: STORY CAN TRIM
> HERE)
>
> Udolf, who helped prosecute
> some of Dade County's biggest
> corruption cases, will help Starr, a
> former federal appellate judge,
> sort through the evidence.
>
> Clinton supporters have
> repeatedly attacked Starr's
> three-year investigation, calling it
> a partisan attack out to get the
> president. Those who know Udolf
> say his apolitical handling of cases
> will help Starr.
>
> ``Bruce adds a high level of
> credibility,'' said Mark Schnapp, a
> former federal prosecutor now
> practicing criminal defense. ``He
> has supervised the prosecution of
> judges, police officers, two
> mayors. He is fair and calls it as
> he sees it -- and that is good for
> both sides.''
>
> Udolf successfully prosecuted
> Miami Beach Mayor Alex Daoud,
> Jamaican drug lords and oversaw
> the prosecution of several Dade
> judges. He once won a conviction
> against Hialeah Mayor Raul
> Martinez, but a federal court
> overturned the case. Juries refused
> to convict Martinez in two other
> trials before the U.S. dropped the
> charges.
>
> ``Bruce is a very thorough
> attorney and works very hard,''
> said Jose Quion, who successfully
> represented Martinez. ``He will
> bring to the Whitewater
> investigation the same tenacity
> that has made him successful in
> South Florida.''
>
> Udolf will leave Miami just as
> Operation Greenpalm turns its
> attention to County Hall. In
> Miami, prosecutors and FBI
> agents nabbed some of Miami's
> best-known leaders plotting
> kickback schemes. Those busted:
> Finance Director Manohar
> Surana; City Manager Cesar
> Odio; Commissioner Miller
> Dawkins and lobbyist Jorge de
> Cardenas
>
> De Cardenas awaits an August
> trial. The three city officers have
> pleaded guilty. Dawkins is serving
> 27 months in federal prison.
> Surana and Odio have yet to be
> sentenced.
>
> In Dade County, prosecutors are
> examining bond deals involving
> financier Calvin Grigsby,
> Commissioner James Burke and
> former commission aide Billy
> Hardemon. An offshoot of
> Greenpalm is looking at
> expenditures at the Port of Miami.
>
> Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary K.
> Butler will oversee Operation
> Greenpalm.
>
> X X X
>
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>
>
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