Reply #10: Still not sure

[BQueen]

my take on the first issue is above (couldn't hear well enough to tell) and as to the second, I don't think that would keep them away from the Coingate investigators, just the public (since not made public record)

Basically, Taft got to go on live TV and blubber, claiming that he turned himself in (they've been playing him up as an ironic case, since he's "always been a stickler for ethics" -- based on what, exactly? His treatment of Justice Robie-Resnick in 2000?) And they get to play for time on any more damaging Coingate revelations (at least having to do with golf.)

The finding seemed to cover an entire time period, exempting him from any further prosecutions for reporting violations during that time, but I couldn't make out the dates. Probably just part of the package deal, but I hope there's nothing else out there. (it would only be the reporting)