It could also undermine the deterrent effect the ICC is painstakingly building up.Those in favour of pushing ahead with the indictment point out that there are no ongoing peace negotiations to upset.
Did Ms. Gu or the Chongqing government pay money in exchange for the family's silence? 12 The indictment pointed out that Ms. Gu and Mr. Heywood teamed up in 2005 with a senior manager at a Chinese state-run enterprise in several real estate deals in Chongqing and in France.
The next day, New Jersey governor Chris Christie introduces himself as a former federal prosecutor and then rolls out a fulminating, partisan indictment of her alleged failures as secretary of state in Libya, Nigeria, China, Syria, Russia and Cuba ("a coddler of the brutal Castro brothers"), inviting the massed delegates to respond with their verdict after every indictment point.
The indictment indirectly points a finger at Richard Trumka, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s secretary-treasurer.
Until two or three years ago, according to a federal indictment, the point man for the Russian Mafia in Miami was a onetime Brighton Beach furniture store owner named Ludwig Fainberg.
But Mr. Melville, who was charged with gun and drug possession, never told Sergeant Eiseman there was contraband in his apartment, according to the indictment, a point the sergeant conceded on Monday before Justice Juan Merchan in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
Her book is no less rigorous for it, but the lack of intimacy with the key figures does serve to remove a sense of drama from the narrative, and the book becomes more a compilation of facts and events, a point-by-point indictment rather than a page-turning tale.
But they also are not ruling out the possibility of a more serious indictment if evidence points to him.
If anything, it's a pointing indictment of the logical fallacy in our society's way of thinking".
