European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday october 16,1994 jul turns Rostenkowski bid by the new York times Washington a Federal judge Friday rejected rep. Dan Rostenkowski s Broad constitutional Challenge to a 17- count indictment charging him with corruption. Judge Norma Holloway Johnson of is. District court rejected arguments that Rostenkowski should Bev immune from prosecution because the charges re lated to his official duties. The Constitution the congressman lawyers said explicitly protects legislators from being prosecuted for acts involving those duties. The indictment charges Rostenkowskid-i11., with defrauding the government of More than $500,000, the constitutional provision that lawyers invoked the speech of debate clause in a tide 1, protects members of Congress from being questioned in any other place about their speeches or debates in Congress. but Johnson in a 28-Page opinion said the supreme court had narrowed the interpretation of that clause to strictly de fined legislative activities. She evaluated each of the charges against the Congress Man and concluded that none of them could fairly be said to involve his official duties. the supreme court generally has no disapproved criminal prosecutions of members of Congress As Long As such in Deavors do not implicate the defendant s protected legislative acts she wrote. Activities that Are Only casually relate to a lawmaker s duties she said Are not protected at All. Referring to some of the charges Johnson said precedent seems to be lacking for the proposition that immunity attaches to a congressman s decision to hire employees whose duties consist of photographing his daughter s weddings mowing the grass at his summer House Orother personal Johnson also rejected a claim by Rostenkowski s lawyers that the prosecution infringed upon the legislative ranch s Powers to discipline its own members for violations of House rules. Howard Pearl a lawyer for Rostenkowski said he was disappointed by the ruling and promised an Appeal. Espy Aid us in probe of Washington a Kim Schnoor the chief Domestic adviser to agriculture Secretary Mike Espy has been subpoenaed by the special prosecutor investigating Espy and favo she received from food companies. The subpoena comes hardly a month after Independent counsel Donald Smaltz of los Angeles was appointed by a three judge panel to investigate Espy who announced his resignation oct. 3.in her position Schnoor has had close Contact with department Deci Sions including work on poultry regu lations. " / a. " -. Schnoor did not return a phone Call but a source familiar with the investigation confirmed the subpoena was issued. "., -. A. Schnoor was named in an april 1993 memo from former food safety and inspection service chief Russell Cross As one of two Espy aides who asked that work on tighter poultry regulations be stopped. Send work eventually resumed and new regulations were proposed in july 1994.smaltz, among other things is looking into whether sports tickets travel and lodging that Espy received from Arkansas poultry magnate Don Tyson influenced decisions by the agriculture department. 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