Special Prosecutor Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Special Prosecutor Act - Directs the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, sitting en banc, to appoint a panel of three of its members to select a Special Prosecutor. Provides for the compensation and staffing of the Office of Special Prosecutor. States that the Special Prosecutor has exclusive jurisdiction to investigate and to prosecute in the name of the United States: (1) offenses arising out of the unauthorized entry in Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate; (2) all offenses arising out of the 1972 Presidential election for which the Special Prosecutor deems it necessary and appropriate to assume responsibility; (3) allegations of offenses involving the President, members of the White House staff, or Presidential appointees, except allegations of offenses the Special Prosecutor waives to the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice by letter to the Attorney General setting forth his reasons for such waiver, with a copy of that letter to the panel; (4) all matters referred by the Attorney General of the United States to the former Special Prosecutor who assumed office on May 24, 1973, or to any of his successors in office; and (5) suc…