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...secretly dispatched an employee with $200,000 in $100 bills to Maurice H. Stans, Commerce Secretary for Richard Nixon and at that time chief fund raiser for his re-election campaign. Federal prosecutors accused Vesco of trying to bribe the Nixon Administration to head off the sec probe. Stans and Attorney General John Mitchell were later indicted on charges that they intervened on Vesco's behalf in the sec case. Vesco, by then living in Costa Rica, refused to return to the U.S. to testify. Stans and Mitchell were subsequently acquitted...
...with TIME last month, Elmer-DeWitt notes, an unworried Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said that only one serious lawsuit had ever surfaced in his firm's history: Apple Computer's unsuccessful claim that the Microsoft Windows operating system had too closely copied from the MacIntosh. Microsoft still faces afederal probe into its proposed on-line networkand agreements covering software patent infringement...
...Among those reported by Italian news agencies: Giorgio Armani, Gianfranco Ferre and Mariuccia Mandelli (the name behind Krizia.) TIME Rome reporter Greg Burke says that nearly all the top Italian fashion designers had been called in over the last several months as part of the massive "Clean Hands" corruption probe. Today, Armani reacted coolly: "It's a formality related to the known investigation...
Attorney General Janet Reno requested the appointment of yet another independent counsel -- her fourth -- to probe top Administration officials, this time Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. The counsel will look into, among other things, a business deal that apparently netted nearly $500,000 when Brown sold his interest in a firm in which he invested no money. Backed by the President, Brown denied wrongdoing and vowed to remain in the Cabinet...
...charge of a branch that had responsibility for investigating all cases involving possible penetration of the CIA. The members of Vertefeuille's team were assigned to other cases that were deemed more important than the ones the task force had been set up to probe...