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FBI director comes under fire
Sessions accused of giving contract to aide's husband
The Associated Press
The disclosure, made by a Washington writer who is preparing a book on the FBI, came as the department confirmed that it was looking into charges of improper conduct by Sessions involving personal travel and other matters.
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice has been told that the wife of FBI Director William Sessions unsuccessfully tried to steer a $100,000 government contract for security at the couple's home to a family friend, it was disclosed yesterday.
Paul McNulty, a representative of the department, confirmed the inquiry is underway after Sessions himself was quoted saying he is under investigation.
"The department can confirm that Director Sessions is accurate."
McNulty said. He declined to be more specific.
But other sources said the investigation by the department's Office of Professional Responsibility, an internal watchdog unit, was wide ranging.
One charge was revealed by author Ron Kessler in an interview With The Associated Press. Kessler is writing a book about the FBI.
Kessler said Alice Sessions allegedly tried unsuccessfully to get the FBI to award a $100,000 contract to install security alarms in the Sessions' Washington home to Donald Munford, husband of Sessions' aide Sarah Munford.
Kessler said the contract was vetoed by FBI officials, but Munford, who lives in San Antonio, was paid $5,000 for conducting a security survey of the Sessions' home.
Kessler the charge was included in a 10-page letter he signed and sent last June 24 to the FBI public affairs office in an effort to get the FBI director to respond to allegations of misconduct.
One government source said Justice investigators had an anonymous letter to Attorney General William Barri
accusing Alice Sessions of wrongdoing. In addition, department sources said they were looking at a list of complaints including charges that Kessler raised in his letter.
The other charges include unauthorized plane and car travel by Alice Sessions and that she was given a top security FBI building pass normally reserved for FBI officials.
Also, Sarah Munford allegedly showed her FBI credentials to a Texas state trooper last year in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade him not to give her son a speeding ticket.
Meanwhile, the timing of the reports prompted speculation that Sessions is the target of a vindictive effort to discredit him.
Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif, head of the House Judiciary Civil Rights Subcommittee and one of Sessions' defenders on Capitol Hill, said he was outraged by the disclosures.
"Leaking unproven charges violates the most fundamental rules of the department and the FBL." Edwards said in a telephone interview.
The department's investigation was made public Monday夜 by ABC
News, and many of the details first were revealed by Newhouse Newspapers.
The disclosures came amid published reports that the FBI and the Justice Department, its parent agency, disagree over which of them should investigate charges that Justice officials concealed evidence in a case involving bank loans to Iraq. ABC News said Sessions wanted the FBI to investigate and Justice wanted to conduct its own investigation.
The FBI issued a statement yesterday denying any conflict between the two agencies.
McNulty said speculation linking the Iraq case and the charges against Sessions were ridiculous.
But Edwards said, "The timing of this leak is very suspicious since the FBI is investigating the Justice Department's handling of the Iraqgate scandal."
Sessions was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 to a 10-year term as head of the FBI. The length of the term is designed to shield FBI directors from political meddling.
U.S. professor wins Nobel Prize for economics
The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Chicago professor Gary Becker won the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics yesterday for pioneering the theory that people make every decision following the same rational path long associated with business.
Before Becker began publishing his ideas in the late 1950s, most academics considered habit and often emotion or irrationality as the primary factors in human behavior like having children or committing crimes.
"His work can be used to explain peoples' choice of education, how the family chooses to spend its time, including how many children it should have and the type of marriage," saidass Lindbeck of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.
Becker, 61, a professor of sociology and economics at the University of Chicago, said he was still in shock about receiving the $1.2 million prize. He was the 15th person connected to the University of Chicago to win the Nobel economics prize in 22 years.
"I was interested in social problems but felt that economics had the tools by which to handle these
long-term interests and social questions," Becker said.
The key to his research is the theory that human behavior follows the same rational principles, whether it involves a household, a business or an organization. Though greeted initially with skepticism, his work has influenced sociology, demography and criminology.
"Becker has been a hot name for 10 years, but we have preferred to wait and see how solid his research results were since he is such a daring and previously controversial person," said Lindbeck. "But year by year it became clear what a tremendous influence his work had and he became the obvious candidate for the prize."
Becker's theory that people choose their level of education depending on its economic consequences is generally accepted, Lindbeck said. But still controversial are his analyses of decisions to marry and divorce, based on economic factors.
That analysis could be applied by a society triving
Becker assumes most criminals are sane. He says his research shows that the probability of getting caught is more important than the type of punishment in someone's decision to commit a crime.
to determine whether it should put more police on the street or make prison sentences longer.
Becker views households as small factories, where the costs of decisions are measured in time as well as cash.
Parents spend time as well as money on their children's education. Becker found that as family income rises, parents increase their investments in the children but produce fewer of them. That could explain the decline of family size in industrialized countries.
His studies also found that rising wages made it more beneficial for a household's adult members to take jobs and transfer some tasks to other institutions, such as day care. That is a factor in why more married women tend to work outside the home in industrial countries.
Becker was born in Pottsville, Pa., in 1930. His works include "The Economics of Discrimination," written in 1957, "Human Capital," 1964, and "A Treatise on the Family." 1981.
He is also affiliated with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California.
Nineteen of the 32 economics prize winners have been U.S. citizens.
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