Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high-level White House meetings and quietly visited the Republican National Convention in Dallas, he has pretty much dropped from public prominence. But Ronald Reagan's Presidential Counsellor and nominee for Attorney General has re-emerged in the news. Jacob Stein, the special prosecutor appointed last April to probe questions raised at Meese's Senate confirmation hearings, will submit his report to a federal court this week, according to a source familiar with the investigation...
...pretax profits of $32.9 million between 1979 and 1981, its top officers gave themselves rich rewards. The bosses enjoyed their bounty until earlier this year, when the Securities and Exchange Commission ordered the bonuses paid back. President Leon C. Hirsch, for one, agreed to relinquish $317,000. A probe of U.S. Surgical's books, the SEC claimed, had discovered that the company padded its 1979-81 profits by more than $18 million...
...tape, De Lorean told his old acquaintance and neighbor James Timothy Hoffman, a convicted cocaine dealer, that he had backing for the drug deal from the Irish Republican Army. Unfortunately for the Government's case, the tapes lacked one critical element. Missing were the preliminary stages of the probe, thus leaving debatable the essential question of motivation and instigation: Who really set the deal in motion...
...bankrupt automobile factory in Northern Ireland, is demanding an accounting of $17.65 million that investigators say was apparently funneled into private bank accounts. And in Detroit, John De Lorean's home town, he is still the subject of a federal grand jury investigation paralleling the British probe into an apparent transfer of millions of dollars from the De Lorean Motor Co. or subsidiaries into a paper trail of foreign and domestic personal bank accounts. Indictments may be handed down this fall...
Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal Hassan Ali said in Cairo that his government is investigating the explosions. Last week a 15-man American technical team arrived in the area to assist in the Egyptian probe. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has issued a "notice to mariners" as a precautionary measure...