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...East, entered a guilty plea to charges that he conspired to help B.C.C.I. secretly purchase control of First American, the bank that Clifford and Altman headed. Adham, a key director of both B.C.C.I. and First American, agreed to pay a $105 million fine and to cooperate in the widening probe...
...first message as the Navy's Acting Secretary, former Pentagon comptroller Sean O'Keefe, 36, called on all officers to cooperate "fully and truthfully" with the Pentagon probe into Tailhook. Appointed by Cheney for only a 120-day term, O'Keefe will sidestep Senate approval. Good news for the Navy, since confirmation hearings would have given lawmakers another chance to sound off against the already scandal-weary service...
...centers in the state routinely overcharge customers an average $223 for repairs, and that Sears mechanics also billed undercover agents for work that was never done. Spurred by a 50% increase in consumer complaints against Sears auto shops over the past three years, say California officials, they began a probe that reveals a "constant pattern of abuse." Consumer-affairs director Jim Conran is seeking revocation of Sears' license to perform auto repairs in California. Says he: "These are not honest mistakes. This is the systematic looting of the public." Sears denies the charges. A spokesman for the company says that...
...Administration's critics maintain that it was a sign of White House blindness that it continued to court Saddam even after evidence emerged in the BNL probe of substantial Iraqi misuse of the loan-guarantee program. This week Texas Democrat Jack Brooks, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will hold hearings on whether to call on the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to determine if the Agriculture Department's program was improperly used...
Questions about the integrity of Walsh's financial business circulated Cambridge long before federal investigators announced their probe in mid-December...