Word: fbi
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Noriega is currently being investigated by the Justice Department and three federal agencies. In Tampa, Customs and FBI agents are probing allegations that Noriega was paid off to facilitate the smuggling of drugs into the U.S. In Miami, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is looking into similar accusations. In addition, Ramon Milian Rodriguez, a Cuban-American convicted in 1985 of drug-related charges, has testified in closed hearings to a congressional committee that Noriega pocketed millions of dollars in commissions on drug profits that passed through Panama's central bank...
...after publishing plans for the United Nations drawn up by each of the five powers that would become permanent members of the Security Council. He got all the papers at once but created a bigger sensation by doling out his scoops for days, one at a time. The FBI was put on his trail; an enraged Secretary of State called up Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador, demanding to know whether he had leaked. Halifax denied it, then barred Reston from the embassy. Actually, Reston's source was the Chinese...
...Brooklyn 59 years ago, he now calls himself Charles Merrill Mount, affects an English accent, carries a walking stick and sports classic three-piece suits. An art historian and portrait painter, Mount stands accused of pursuing a third career as well: pilferer of rare historical documents. Last week the FBI arrested him for possessing a 1904 letter signed by Novelist Henry James that had been missing from the Library of Congress. Five days earlier Mount had been charged with stealing letters written by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill. Said Special FBI Agent W. Douglas Gow: "This isn't just...
...bookstore, paid him $20,000 for 27 documents, including nine letters from Portraitist James McNeill Whistler and one from James. In early August Mount approached the bookstore again with an offer to sell a collection of rare Civil War manuscripts featuring three Lincoln letters. Suspicious store officials alerted the FBI, which arrested Mount when he returned to the bookstore with the Lincoln letters on Aug. 13. A subsequent search of his safe-deposit box in Washington turned up a cache of some 200 papers from the Civil War era, many believed to have been stolen from the National Archives. Despite...
...sting began in October 1985 with an FBI agent posing as a supplier of fencing, road signs and other steel products. He apparently had no difficulty distributing $40,000 in bribes to various officials. Only one of the 106 payoffs proffered was rejected, and that was because the amount was deemed too paltry. Said U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani: "Compared to other states, New York is a much friendlier place to corrupt politicians, crooked businessmen and organized criminals...