Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watchdog watching carefully enough? That was just one of the questions on Wall Street last week as fresh controversy swirled around the Street's takeover titans -- and the agency that oversees them. Widening its probe of illegal insider trading, the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed unsettling new details of the Ivan Boesky case, while disputes flared over the use of so-called greenmail tactics in takeover battles...
Shearson has been cooperating with the probe since May. After the subpoenas were disclosed, Cohen insisted that no one at his firm was guilty of improprieties. He also stressed that the investigation had no connection with the insider-trading scandal involving Boesky and Dennis Levine. Said he: "The Government has assured us the subpoenas we have received have nothing to do with Boeskygate, Levinegate or any other gate...
Four of the football players were penalized for using anabolic steroids, used by athletes to build strength and muscle mass. The fifth athlete took unusally large doses of Sudafed, a common decongestant. Racial Incident Prompts FBI Probe...
...Joseph Biden (D-Del.), incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked the internal police agency in the Justice Department to investigate the delay. Justice Department intervention in an FBI probe is extremely unusual...
...other developments surrounding the Iran probe, Secretary of State George P. Shultz is set to condemn the process of private "back channel" communications between the White House and U.S. envoys abroad, it was learned yesterday...