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Acting on this evidence a Dade County grand jury is expected to indict him and at least two other council executives by the end of this month. Subsequent probes by city and county investigators have turned up dozens of other examples of questionable activities in the $92.5 million-a-year South Florida jobs program, which is jointly administered by officials from Dade and Monroe counties and the cities of Hialeah, Miami and Miami Beach, and financed by the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA...
After calling some 800 witnesses and studying 29 local CETA efforts, the Dade County grand jury cited testimony indicating that the South Florida program "felt itself politically obligated to respond favorably to numerous requests from officials of county government." Adds Assistant State Attorney Thomas Petersen: "There was all this money for all these programs, but no one had time to plan or evaluate them. The wrong people ended up benefiting...
...oilmen have reason to worry. After months of slow, top-secret investigations by the Justice Department, the Department of Energy, a congressional subcommittee and several grand juries, a long list of allegations is about to be aired. So far, most of the charges are believed to center not on the big oil majors but on relatively smaller-independents. Criminal indictments are expected to be handed down for prosecution in coming months against both companies and individuals...
...Daisy chains." Justice Department and FBI oil-fraud "strike forces," working with at least one grand jury in Tampa, Fla., are also looking into pricing swindles carried out by fuel brokers and oil companies. Some oilmen and brokers conspired to sell and resell refined oil several times among themselves, each time at a higher price with large kickbacks, before finally passing it on to an end user, who was either part of the conspiracy or especially gullible...
...scene was madness. The Cincinnati Reds. The LAST pitch. Zimmer stood fixed, staring stonily from the dugout, a Grand Teutonic field marshal in double-knits. Bill Lee was doing some yoga stretches in the bullpen, singing Hindu chants from the Bhagavad Gita. The lights from downtown Boston flickered off past right field in the glare of ballpark floodlights, the green monster stood impassive...