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public prosecutor

NOUN
criminal lawyer for the government
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The Albanian public prosecutor has preventatively frozen the bank accounts of two of the non-Trump investors financing the project, Syrian billionaire brothers Moutaz and Ramez Al-Khayyat.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

"An 18-year-old Swiss national died at a hospital in Zurich on January 31," the Wallis canton's public prosecutor, Beatrice Pilloud, said in a statement.

From BBC Feb. 1, 2026

The Spiegel report said the public prosecutor was looking into how as-yet-unknown Deutsche Bank officials maintained business relationships with foreign companies suspected of money laundering.

From MarketWatch Jan. 28, 2026

The vessel will be kept at the disposal of the Marseille public prosecutor as part of a preliminary investigation for failure to fly a flag, it added.

From Barron's Jan. 25, 2026

Chapman Johnson, who said he himself was not suited for the office, resigning it that Mr. Peyton might be elected, whom he declared was the ablest public prosecutor in Virginia.

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various




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