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...well. Other tips followed, including a letter from nine unidentified police officers, disclosing that patrolmen were being forced to pay kickbacks to their commanders for off-duty work and that a cops' slush fund for social affairs and special police equipment had mysteriously disappeared. A department probe was launched, and when it began unearthing evidence of corruption, the grand jury took over. What it was investigating was a story of vice cops soliciting bribes and police shaking down people for money, merchandise and prostitutes' services. Under Simon Leis Jr., 41, Hamilton County prosecutor and a personal friend...
After Carey lowered the boom on him, Nadjari reacted with characteristic toughness. He refused to resign. Instead, he called a press conference and strongly suggested that Carey was trying to protect high-level Democratic cronies. These Democrats, Nadjari said, were the targets of a nearly completed probe into "the hard core" of corruption in the upper reaches of the justice system. Indictments in the case, he added, could be delivered this month. Said he: "The closer I get to the hard core-and I tell you that I am close, closer than I have ever been-the greater the abuse...
What flushed Mrs. Exner into public view was the Senate Intelligence Committee. As part of its CIA probe, the committee investigated Roselli's and Giancana's other federal connection: their contract with the CIA to assassinate Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro...
...does a liver cell differ from a brain cell, when they both carry the same genetic information," Maniatis asked. Artificial reproduction of genes can answer such questions, he said, because it can act as a probe into DNA organization and control in higher animals...
...wild publicity stunt? Several witnesses claim they heard a click when Squeaky pointed her pistol. Yet Ford, who was standing two feet away from his potential assassin, has already asserted that he has "no recollection of hearing the handgun click." The defense has now won the right to probe that further...