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	Inslaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Inslaw, Inc. is a software company which enhanced a software package it had developed for the United States Government, calling it the Prosecutor's Management Information System (PROMIS).
		Inslaw, once called the Institute for Law and Social Research, was a nonprofit corporation funded almost entirely through Government grants and contracts.
		A U.S. House of Representatives report on the Inslaw affair thought that the circumstances of Casolaro's death were suspicious: As long as the possibility exists that Danny Casolaro died as a result of his investigation into the INSLAW matter, it is imperative that further investigation be conducted."[1]
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inslaw (951 words)

	THE INSLAW AFFAIR: GOVERNMENT AS SOFTWARE PIRATE
		Instead of conducting an investigation into INSLAW's claims that criminal wrongdoing by high level Government officials had occurred, Attorney Generals Meese and Thornburgh blocked or restricted congressional inquiries into the matter, ignored the findings of two courts and refused to ask for the appointment of an independent counsel.
		INSLAW officials have voiced concerns that Judge Bua, lacking independent counsel status, would not be able to entice Department employees who were knowledgeable of the INSLAW matter to come forward and assist Judge Bua in bringing this matter to closure.
		INSLAW's problems with the Department, which started almost immediately after the award of the contract in March 1982, were generated in large part by Mr.
	www.fiu.edu /~mizrachs/inslaw-affair.html (2190 words)

	Inslaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Inslaw is a now-defunct software company which enhanced a public domain software package developed by the United States government, called PROMIS, and attempted to resell it to the government.
		Inslaw, formerly called the Institute for Law and Social Research, was a nonprofit corporation funded almost entirely through Government grants and contracts.
		The conflict centers on the question of whether INSLAW has ownership of its privately funded "Enhanced PROMIS." This software was eventually installed at numerous U.S. attorneys' offices after a 1983 modification to the contract.
	www.aaaah.org /wiki/en/in/Inslaw.htm (295 words)

	1.01: The INSLAW Octopus
		After Inslaw's installation of public domain PROMIS had begun, the DOJ claimed that Inslaw, which was supporting the installation with its own computers running the enhanced version of PROMIS, was on the brink of bankruptcy.
		Inslaw's attorney for the case (he was later fired from his firm under extremely suspicious circumstances -- see sidebar) was Leigh Ratiner of the Wash- ington firm Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin.
		Inslaw was audited several times in the course of their battles with the Department of Justice.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/1.01/inslaw_pr.html (7424 words)

	Zero Mass Energy Inslaw Octopus Software piracy etc.. page.
		Inslaw's attorney for the case (he was later fired from his firm under extremely suspicious circumstances see sidebar) was Leigh Ratiner of the Washington firm Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin.
		He awarded Inslaw $6.8 million in damages and, in the process, found that Justice Department officials made a concerted effort to bankrupt Inslaw and place the company's enhanced PROMIS up for public auction (where it would then be fodder for Brian's Hadron).
		With Inslaw, the charges against the Justice Department make the same course even more imperative." When the Watergate special prosecutor began his inquiry, indications of the President's complicity were not as strong as those that now point to a broad conspiracy implicating lesser Government officials in the theft of Inslaw's technology.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/9357/inslaw.html (7366 words)

	Beneath Contempt - Did the Justice Dept. Deliberately Bankrupt INSLAW?
		The third casualty of the Inslaw affair was Leigh Ratiner a former partner at Dickstein Shapiro and Morin, the firm that represented Edwin Meese during his confirmation hearings for Attorney General.
		Meanwhile, some Senate staffers looking into the INSLAW case believe that it raises questions about Project Eagle, a much larger scheme to computerize the Justice Department, the $200 million contract is scheduled to be awarded before the end of the year.
		INSLAW was, one Senate staffer suggests, the leading edge of Justice's $200 million "Project Eagle," a plan to computerize the department's tax division, criminal division and the 94 U.S. Attorney's offices.
	www.newsmakingnews.com /Inslaweneathcontempt.html (11277 words)

	A Primer on INSLAW
		Justice then proceeded to challenge INSLAW's claims in court even though its own internal deliberations had concluded that these claims were valid and that the Department would most likely lose in court on this issue.
		In this regard, the report states that several individuals testified under oath that INSLAW's PROMIS software was stolen and distributed internationally in order to provide financial gain to associates of Justice Department officials and to further intelligence and foreign policy objectives of the United States.
		Freelance reporter Danny Casolaro spent the last few years of his life investigating a pattern which he called "The Octopus." According to Casolaro, Inslaw was only part of a greater story of how intelligence agencies, the Department of Justice and even the mob had subverted the government and its various functions for their own profit.
	www.copi.com /articles/inslaw_primer.html (1068 words)

	Federal Corruption INSLAW
		The INSLAW case is only being covered by a few newspapers throughout the United States, including the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Miami Herald, Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle (on occasion) and the Vancouver Sun.
		The INSLAW case involves what a federal judge termed "theft, deception and deceit" on the part of the U.S. Justice Department, the judge was removed from the bench and flballed in the Washington, D.C. legal society.
		Michael Riconoscuito's affidavit on the Inslaw case appears in the Congressional report and he was called to testify before the Grand Jury as well, his wife's arrest in Napa caused him to refuse to testify until she was safe.
	www.sonic.net /sentinel/gvcon7.html (20868 words)

	Angel of Death Gives Deposition to Justice Dept in Inslaw Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In its Addendum to INSLAW's ANALYSIS and REBUTTAL of the BUA REPORT, dated February 14, 1994, Inslaw notes with respect to the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI): "OSI's publicly- declared mission is to locate and deport Nazi war criminals.
		According to written statements of which INSLAW has obtained copies, another undeclared mission of the Justice Department's covert agents was to insure that investigative journalist Danny Casolaro remained silent about the role of the Justice Department in the INSLAW scandal by murdering him in West Virginia in August 1991."
		Inslaw, Inc., INSLAW's ANALYSIS and REBUTTAL of the BUA REPORT, July 1993.
	www.aci.net /kalliste/aod1.htm (1308 words)

	inslaw
		at the time the INSLAW scandal broke, he was the man who investigated it and cleared the Justice Department of wrong doing.
		The man who gave the money to the security guard for the murder, was also the same man who is reported to have been the trigger man in Chile in 1971, the target: President Salvador Allendo.
		committee access to critical documents involving the Justice Department's dispute with the INSLAW Corp. "The documents were requested as part of an ongoing investigation of allegations that high-level Department officials conspired to force INSLAW into bankruptcy and liquidate its assets.
	www.wellsofjustice.com /inslaw.htm (13864 words)

	S. G. R. MacMillan: For the defence of serious criminal cases
		In 1985 Allen and Co., a New York investment banking concern with close business ties to Earl Brian, helped finance a second company, SCT, which also attempted to purchase Inslaw.
		Inslaw's attorney for the case (he was later fired from his firm under extremely suspicious circumstances -- see sidebar) was Leigh Ratiner of the Wash- ington firm Dickstein, Shapiro and Morin.
		As the Inslaw-DOJ battle was joined in bankruptcy court, Inslaw's chief attorney, Leigh Ratiner, was fired from Dickstein, Shapiro and Morin, the firm where he had been a partner for 10 years.
	www.sgrm.com /art16.htm (7413 words)

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