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...Medlar, who had a two-year affair with Cisneros when he was mayor of San Antonio in the late 1980s, had claimed he bailed out of an agreement to pay her $4,000 a month. Cisneros had freely admitted to the affair, but he now faces an independent counsel probe into whether he lied to FBI agents before his HUD confirmation about past payments to Medlar...
...case, interviewed 254 witnesses and took 111 depositions -- theresults of which will be delivered to Packwood in a 16,000-page packageas soon as Monday. Though the Oregon Republican's alleged sexual advances have dominated headlines, Tumulty says charges of altering his personal diary transcripts during the preliminary probe could be most damaging. "It is easily provable, and if the Justice Department finds that he did that, he could wind up in jail." The process could now drag on for months as Packwood prepares his defense. No matter what, Tumulty adds, the Senate -- which has expelled no member...
Suddenly, an investigation that had imperiled Murdoch's ownership of his Fox network -- a probe he once dubbed a "witch-hunt" -- had become a family affair. And the five commissioners did nothing to change the mood, voting unanimously to endorse a resolution that could soon free Murdoch to resume terrorizing the established American networks, as he has done for the past two years. "It was a kiss on the cheek for Murdoch," says an influential Washington communications lawyer...
...program, had been selling a by-product of the production process and pocketing the proceeds. In November the university hired two law firms and accountants Coopers & Lybrand to delve into the ALG program. And in December 1992 the U.S. Attorney's office in Minneapolis launched a grand-jury probe that subpoenaed 22 years' worth of records kept by Condie and Najarian...
Criticism of Lacey's judgment has been building since last July, when he issued a 79-page report exonerating Teamsters boss Ron Carey, a self-styled reformer, from allegations that he is linked to organized crime. Lacey conducted his probe as the leader of the Independent Review Board, the three-member federally created agency that polices the union. While the board's report criticized Carey for some dishonesty in matters relating to his real estate dealings, it accepted his denials regarding the Mob. Critics in the union described Lacey 's report as a whitewash, while Carey claimed...