Word: levi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attorney General Edward Levi let it be known that he considered the matter "extremely serious." To officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Levi's comment was a monumental understatement. "Extremely serious in a pig's eye," said one. "It's a disaster." What the officials were referring to was a new investigation ordered by Levi into charges of corruption in the FBI'S ranks-for the first time in the bureau's long and virtually corruption-free history...
...hints of FBI wrongdoing began circulating late last year, soon after the House Intelligence Committee learned that there might have been irregularities in the granting of FBI contracts. Then, two weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times disclosed that Levi had rejected the FBI'S own investigation for not probing hard enough and demanded a brand-new inquiry, supervised directly by the Justice Department...
...proposed bill, which is to be presented to Congress this week, is the result of hard bargaining between Attorney General Edward Levi and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. There were helpful contributions from Presidential Counsel Philip Buchen, Liberal Democrats Gaylord Nelson and James Abourezk, Conservative Democrat John McClellan, Moderate Republican Charles Mathias and Conservative Republican Roman Hruska...
...began with a suspicious scratching sound in Attorney General Edward Levi's ornate fifth-floor office in the Justice Department. A bug, perhaps? Much to the A.G.'s relief, a small gray mouse was eventually seen to dart into a hole not ten feet from his vast mahogany desk. Chicagoan Levi knew that the perpetrator was not from his home town, said an aide, "because it doesn't wear a slouch hat." Other Justice officials were unamused. Startled by what turned out to be a secret army of squatters in their gray stone colossus, they demanded...
...spate of newcomers joined the long list of companies that admitted to having made "questionable" or "improper"-but not illegal-payments abroad. Among them: Baxter Laboratories and Richardson-Merrell, pharmaceutical firms; Carrier Corp., a leading producer of air conditioners and heating equipment; and Levi Strauss, the famed makers of blue jeans. In each case, the company announced that its own auditors had found the improprieties, which were promptly ended...