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...months later, Marshall's probe appears to be seriously bogged down. Ring has not conducted an interview with a guard, sources say, in more than two months. And with the general counsel now on a summer vacation, the end of the probe is probably several weeks...
...sent to regulators. The company allegedly / overstated losses incurred in providing insurance to poor customers. Those exaggerated losses helped persuade the state legislature to force Empire's competitors to take over some of its least profitable business. Despite Cardone's denials, Manhattan's district attorney has launched a criminal probe to determine whether the tough ex-Marine or his aides falsified records or committed perjury...
Unpaid legal fees (1991 ethics probe...
...themselves as brides in exchange for a life in the more affluent West. While some of these marriages produced happy endings, contributor Frederick Painton was struck by the fact that the majority of women who leaped into these unions did so out of economic desperation. Reporters fanned out to probe the phenomenon. At the same time, assistant picture editor Jay Colton came across moving photos of child prostitutes in Russia taken by Alexei Ostrovskiy...
...disk operating system, known as MS-DOS, is now installed on about 60 million IBM-compatible personal computers, or 75% of all the PCs in the world. Competitors claim Microsoft abuses its market power, but the company was cleared of all antitrust charges in a Federal Trade Commission probe in February. Last week a federal judge dismissed Apple's $5.5 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against Microsoft as well...