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Thompson has said he is not interested in going over the Whitewater ground laboriously covered by the past two Congresses. But the Democratic Party's dubious fund-raising practices are fertile territory for someone whose zeal for campaign-finance reform has not endeared him to his colleagues. Pressure for a full-blown congressional investigation intensified last week when Attorney General Janet Reno rejected requests for an independent counsel. And Thompson has suggested that there still may be questions worth raising about how the White House handled the firing of its travel office or how it gathered FBI files on prominent...
...communications with TIME, reiterated the company's official explanation. In reality, he wields so much influence that several former employees told TIME they regarded him as the de facto CEO. There have also been allegations--hotly denied by Oxford--that the firm is engaging in some of the same dubious practices that were employed by other Kott-related brokerages in the past. Stephen Rubenstein, Oxford's chairman and CEO, insists that despite Kott's association with the company, JB Oxford is a clean operation making an honest living in one of the hottest markets in history...
...conviction that was overturned on appeal. By the '80s, he had set out for Europe to help run an Amsterdam-based company called First Commerce Securities, which became mired in scandal. The operation was a classic boiler room--a brokerage firm that used high-pressure sales tactics to push dubious securities. Telemarketers dialed for dollars around the clock to all points of the globe...
...Avenue in Manhattan. There was a gym on the ninth floor that all employees were paid to use for three hours each week, and on the first floor was the Forbes Gallery, featuring Faberge eggs and Malcolm Forbes Sr.'s large collection of toy boats. I even had the dubious honor of meeting Steve Forbes. While I had responsibilities that included editing some feature stories, my primary role was that of fact-checker...
...Alewife Brook Bridge is not the only structure vying for the somewhat dubious honor of carrying the Flaherty name...