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Janet Wood Reno (July 21, 1938 – November 7, 2016) was an American lawyer and public official who served as the first female and 78th United States attorney general. Reno, a member of the Democratic Party , held the position from 1993 to 2001, making her the second-longest serving attorney general, behind only William Wirt .
Janet Reno, the first woman U.S. attorney general who served eight tumultuous years with President Bill Clinton, has died at 78, according to media reports.
This was the key justification offered by the FBI (both to then President Bill Clinton and to Attorney General Janet Reno) for launching CS gas attacks to force the Branch Davidians out of the compound. [70] During the siege, the FBI sent a video camera to the Branch Davidians.
Janet Reno, 78, American lawyer and politician, first female U.S. Attorney General (1993–2001), Parkinson's disease. [ 111 ] Joe Ryan , 80, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1997–1999).
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You touch on this in the series, but then-Attorney General Janet Reno became a controversial figure in the '90s because of incidents like Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing and the return of Elián ...
However, Attorney General Janet Reno declared that the federal courts are responsible for deciding this case, and that the Miami relatives must appeal to the federal court. [24] Here, the objective of Reno was to provide the relatives with a chance to provide "any information" they could that would be "relevant in the decision".
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.