Word: probe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end there were reports that the special prosecutor was about to clear Ford completely on the campaign fund probe. Hearing of Ford's denials of fund misuse, Carter did not press the question. Said he: "That ends the matter as far as I am involved...
...labor force in some Jewish-owned businesses, there should be an Arab job ceiling of 20%. That way, Koenig argued, economic insecurity would keep Arab minds off "thoughts of a so-called cultural-nationalistic nature." Koenig insisted that "the nature of the Levantine character is superficial, does not probe in depth, and has an imagination that gains the upper hand over national thinking." Complained Nazareth's Communist Mayor Tawfiq Zayad: "Many of Koenig's recommendations are already official policy. We are constantly spied on, we are discriminated against in the schools, our land is confiscated, and there...
...overdose of drugs, and in August announced he would not run for reelection. Last week the Congressman completed his slide down Capitol Hill with a terse, one-sentence letter of resignation. Hays' departure will spare him public examination by the House Ethics Committee, which immediately dropped its probe into how Ray earned her $14,000 salary, but he still faces legal problems over the matter from a grand jury probe and a Justice Department investigation. As for Liz, she insisted that she never would have gone public with her relationship with Hays had she known it "would mushroom into...
Hoover's fingerprints on the cookie jar turned up during a probe into charges of corruption in the FBI's purchases of equipment. Following leads supplied by low-level FBI employees-including carpenters and other blue-collar workmen-investigators soon found evidence that Hoover and some of his closest aides had misused two FBI accounts...
Bribery at Home? When the wave of slush-fund and payoff scandals began to break, he also developed the idea of consent agreements. His bright young staff-average age is under 30-would collect evidence of wrongdoing and confront the companies with it. Then the corporations would continue the probe under SEC supervision, using untainted directors, lawyers and accountants to do the work. In the Gulf Oil case, the guilty company spent $3.5 million on its investigation...