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...screeds, congressional bombast and urgent pleas from top FBI and Justice officials could not -- specifically, push Attorney General Janet Reno to the verge of naming a new independent counsel to investigate the financial maneuverings of the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign. The explanation, says an insider, is that an FEC audit of the campaign, which landed at Justice about three weeks ago, concluded that White House and campaign officials may have intentionally attempted to evade federal election laws by manipulating "issue advocacy" ads funded by the national Democratic Party or state parties into hard-sell vote-for-Clinton-Gore messages...
What happened to the money during the intervening 16 months, whether other funds are missing and who might be behind this confusion are questions currently being investigated in an Ernst and Young audit...
University officials said the audit should becompleted by the end of this month, but it has notyet been decided whether it will be made public...
...Abiola's thoughts are always with Nigeria. For all but 10 of the 38 years since the nation gained independence from Britain, the country has been under military rule. And despite Nigeria's oil wealth, most of the citizens remain in poverty. By the estimates of a 1991 government audit, $12 billion in oil revenues is simply unaccounted for--probably doled out to military leaders and elites. For his part, Abacha routinely imprisoned or executed his political opposition, including the writer and minority-rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was hanged in November 1995. Now Abacha has been replaced...
...fruition. Banks are an easier target. The Aryan Republican Army managed to rob 22 of them to finance their activities. As Potok says, ?Creating a second American revolution costs money.? Then again, plotting to bomb an IRS building is one heck of a way to land yourself an audit...