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# Who’s Up First: The Clark Clifford Prosecutions and the Limits of Federal Authority to Maintain Criminal Actions in the Face of Competing State Prosecutions

  November/December 1992

White Collar Crime Reporter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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