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...drastically increases fines for white-collar crime (e.g. up to $1 million for gross consumer fraud...
Meanwhile, a Congressional committee began investigating the possibility of fraud in the Souza case, and Walsh notified his superiors, including Champion, of the investigations...
...committee staff also suspected that the directives from Califano and Champion to put the investigation under the General Counsel's Office were the result of pressure from California's governor or congressional delegation. The Congressional committees had been under pressure to go easy on probes into California Medicare fraud, so Talmadge and company reasoned that HEW could have been responding to similar pressure. Champion's ties to California also made them suspect dirty work at the corssroads...
...that hearing last week that Talmadge read a statement saying that while HEW "had not distinguished itself" in investigating fraud, he did not want to hold up Champion's nomination any longer...
...Capitol Hill to watch the Senate Judiciary Committee grill L. Patrick Gray, Nixon's nominee for FBI director, about his role in the Watergate investigation. Like Champion, Gray was the only official available for questioning, and his nomination was eventually withdrawn. Champion was clearly luckier, for the Souza Medicare fraud scandal has apparently blown over. So he can now turn his attention to simpler problems--like welfare reform...