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...would like to thank you very much for taking the trouble to probe accurately the deeper recesses of whatever the hell I am, and also for the warmth and kindness of your treatment...
Civiletti's decision not to appoint a special prosecutor was based in part on a technicality: the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, which requires the Attorney General to appoint an outsider to probe damaging accusations against Administration officials, was passed after the Justice Department had already begun looking into the charges against Textron. Civiletti added, however, that he had "very serious doubts that specific information sufficient to trigger the act has been developed indicating that Secretary Miller has violated any criminal law." Civiletti said he was directing the Justice Department "to proceed with all possible speed" to bring before...
...tells it, Brennan favored a retrial but decided to join in the majority opinion. Reason: Brennan was concerned that Harry Blackmun, who wrote the opinion, would be "personally offended" if he dissented and thus might not support him in other cases. New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis decided to probe this account of cynical legal horse-trading, which the book suggested was based on the recollection of an unnamed former Brennan clerk. Lewis found the ex-clerk, Paul R. Hoeber, now a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Hoeber denied that he told Woodward and Armstrong anything...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation uncovered the Goody scam through one of its now glamorous "sting" operations. The FBI probe started three years ago, when a strike force opened a record shop in Westbury, Long Island, with agents posing as owners and employees. A total of more than 200,000 cloned tapes worth millions were eventually involved. Most of the fakes were sound tracks of the movies Grease and Saturday Night Fever. Other popular copies included hits by Pop Stars Billy Joel, Olivia Newton-John and Paul McCartney...
...years ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission began an informal probe into the compensation at Playboy. The company defended its chairman's perks, saying that the sex conglomerate's sales "are closely related to public recognition of its role in promoting a particular style of urban living." But last week the company's internal audit committee announced that Hefner and four other officers would have to repay $918,413 in improperly documented or unapproved expenses. Hefner's share...