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Mayor Wilson Harvey took steps
today to veto Authority Independent
Counsel appointment.

"Such an act runs contrary to every
democratic principal upon which this
system was founded," he said to a scrum
of reporters. "This has gone too far. The
public must speak out!"

Neil Overman, spokesman for
Authority Investigators in charge of the
appointment, suggested that Mayor
Harvey might be the wrong person to
determine the "democratic principals"
upon which the system was founded,
citing recently uncovered evidence of
bribery, money laundering and murder
sanctioned through the mayoral offices
and Greasetown City Hall.

"The City Council [of Greasetown]
would be better able to determine the
principals upon which the mob ruled
Chicago in the pre-Change 20's and 30's."
Overman went on to say. "By the end of
this investigation, Mayor Harvey will be
lucky to find himself unemployed and not
incarcerated. He's in there like a dirty
shirt."

A continuing Authority breakdown
and self-imposed investigation into its
own officers has left the legal and political
body reeling.

These actions commenced after the
outbreak of what sources called a "civil
war" that raged within the law
enforcement body from Downings District
to New Garden.

Independent counsel, Laura Moon,
has been appointed by two surviving
forces within the beleaguered Authority,
charged with the mission of purging
undesirable elements from Authority's
ruling body, and from its representatives
on Greasetown City Council.

Moon told a press conference, "I will
subpoena the dead Popes if necessary, I'll
dredge up the bloody ashes of Joan of
Arc if the situation demands. I have been
charged with bringing justice to a
situation beside which Dodge City pales.

The government and law enforcement in Greasetown has
behaved in a manner that would shame the worst Mafia Don."

The first of several hundred subpoenas have already been
delivered, and special protection from prosecution orders have been
filed.

"There are some bad people involved in this, and the only way to
get a bad person to talk is to offer a deal. This special protection will
not be offered to murderers. Upon my word I swear it," said
Independent Counsel Moon.

The atmosphere at City Hall was alive today as the first
subpoenas arrived summoning every councillor to appear before a
special grand jury to give evidence.

Critics spoke out, citing a governmental cover-up. Watchdog
groups warned that a scapegoat would surely be found outside the
ranks of sitting council members.

Moon Shows No Sign of Eclipsing

Moon was quick to refute this. "I repeat. This whole
investigation is about individuals who feel they are somehow outside
or above the law. I will say this once for the record. No one is exempt
from prosecution. Every guilty party must pay!"

Government watchdog groups cautioned the public to take such
assurances with a grain of salt since Counsel Moon was chosen by
two groups within Authority who won a "civil war." The watchdogs
remind the public that the authority within Authority is not
democratically elected. It simply rose from the ashes of failed
privately run law-enforcement agencies.

Prominent Dead's Rights Activist
Captain Jack Updike spoke out at a
recent "Freedom for the Interred"
rally against the individuals in
control at Authority responsible for
the recent civil strife.

"This self-professed 'civil-war' does
nothing for the public that Authority
claims to serve. And what of the
dead? What of their rights? We
have petitioned City Council and the
Councils of countless other cities,
begging, pleading the case of the
interred. And now to find that not

only did our pleas fall upon deaf ears,
they were corrupt."

Speaking to a gathering of ten
thousand living and dead supporters,
Updike went on to call for a general
election of a new government which
would be brought to power with a
new mandate. Authority should be
replaced by publicly funded police
agencies, and a self-governing
council accountable to the people,
provided with the clear goal to
address the problem of the interred.

"There are a great multitude of