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Janet Reno Dies of Complications from Parkinson’s at 78

HeadlineNov 07, 2016

And Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general, has died due to complications from Parkinson’s at the age of 78. During her eight-year tenure, Reno oversaw the arrest and prosecution of the so-called “Unabomber,” Ted Kaczynski, and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. She oversaw the deadly raid on the Branch Davidian cult in Texas, which left 76 people dead. Reno drew fire for her prosecution of Wen Ho Lee, the U.S. nuclear scientist of Chinese descent who spent nine months in solitary confinement after he was falsely accused by the Clinton administration of spying for the Chinese government.

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