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Wilder and private investigator Billy Franklin.
There is no need to rehash all the sordid details, but practically everyone, including Robb himself, was expecting that an indictment would be returned against the Senator since prosecutors had finally gotten around to drawing one up.
But just as Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert W. Wiechering, the chief prosecutor in the case, seemed about to prevail, one of his superiors, Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Kenney, came on the scene and addressed the grand jury. His appearance was not only unusual but some reports have it that Kenney told the jury, in effect, the decision is up to you.
One school of thought is that the Bush Administration may have grown wary of indicting a sitting U.S. Senator who is a close friend of incoming President Clinton, particularly since the kind of charges that might have been lodged against Robb were not understood by the public and paled in significance compared to the Iran-Contra charges against five former Reagan Administration officials granted pardons by Bush on Christmas Eve.
If the Justice Department had decided to drop the Robb case after
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