Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probe found that James Howarth, who had supervised the House pages until last December, when he was given other duties, had had sex in 1980 with one of his 17-year-old female wards. The report also accused Howarth of buying cocaine in the House's Democratic cloakroom, possibly from another House staffer. Howarth contests the charges. The probe into drug use is continuing...
...prime-time TV press conference last week, Reagan was peppered with twelve questions about the incident, more than half of all the queries he received. By week's end the affair had ballooned into a criminal investigation by the Justice Department and a congressional probe also was under...
...House probe of transcripts
Kentucky Governor John Y. Brown, 49, the husband of TV Sportscaster Phyllis George, and a dark-horse presidential aspirant, is not a target of the probe. But the investigation is focused squarely on one of his best buddies. The Governor was obliged to answer questions about the fuss at a press conference last week. Though the FBI and the local U.S. Attorney will not comment officially, a main subject of the probe is James Lambert, who owns a local discothèque and whose home had been under surveillance by state and federal investigators...
...Former FBI Official Neil Welch, who was hired by Brown to head the state justice department in 1980, was fired by the Governor last April 14. Shortly thereafter, his anticorruption investigative unit, known as the God Squad, was disbanded. The sacking was prompted, according to Brown, by a Welch probe in the Governor's Florida vacation home: God Squad members had tape-recorded a conversation between a state official and a state contractor in 1981. Brown's office claimed that this eavesdropping violated the Governor's "personal policies...