Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike the Iran-contra investigation, another drawn-out federal probe was finally starting to produce results. Operation Ill Wind -- the two-year Justice Department inquiry into whether defense contractors bribed Pentagon officials for contract information -- blew in its first indictments and guilty pleas. Two defense contractors and nine men, including a middle-ranking Pentagon official, were hit with charges that include fraud, conspiracy, racketeering and bribery...
...leading the probe, Scotland Yard is getting unprecedented cooperation from security agencies in Europe and the Middle East as well as in the U.S. The FBI is providing substantial assistance, and the National Security Agency is scanning its records for evidence that might be contained in the electronically intercepted telephone and radio conversations of known terrorists...
...they may have to depend on getting a tip from an informer to learn the identities of the terrorists. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat agreed to assist the investigation last week, but the initial results of his offer only served to show how frustrating the probe could become. Even though Arafat maintains an extensive network of security men who keep an eye on Palestinian extremists, an Arafat spokesman said that "so far, the P.L.O. does not have any clues...
Under current law, when the Justice Department finds that state or local authorities are not effectively investigating or fairly handling a racially motivated crime it can take over the probe and try defendants in a federal court. This accords Blacks and other racial minority members some protection against local officials who may not be overly sympathetic to their rights...
...company for $17.6 billion in a deal that could have netted Johnson $100 million. The bidding eventually hit $25 billion, but RJR directors rebuked Johnson and awarded the company to the Manhattan buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Last week the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced a probe of the deal...