HR 11369 · 93th Congress · Crime and Law Enforcement
A bill to define the powers and duties and to place restrictions upon the grounds for removal of the Special Prosecutor appointed by the Acting Attorney General of the United States on November 5, 1973.
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EnactedLatest: Referred to House Committee on Judiciary.(1973-11-08)
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States that the Special Prosecutor appointed by the Acting Attorney General of the United States on the 5th day of November 1973, is hereby made subject to removal only by the Attorney General (or, if there be none, by the Acting Attorney General) for gross impropriety, gross misconduct, gross dereliction of duty, or for physical inability to discharge the powers and duties of his office, but for no other cause, or by the Congress pursuant to article II, section 4, of the Constitution. Requires the Attorney General to give thirty days' notice in writing to the Congress of his intention to remove the Special Prosecutor, setting forth in detail the reasons for such removal. States that all materials, tapes, documents, files, work in process, information, and all other property of whatever kind and description relevant to the duties enumerated in this Act, tangible or intangible, collected by, developed by, or in the possession of the former Special Prosecutor or his staff established pursuant to regulation by the Attorney General (28 C.F.R. 0.37, rescinded October 24, 1973), shall be delivered into the possession of the Special Prosecutor appointed under this Act. Authorizes to be ap…
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