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...began challenging Cox's authority when the press printed unfounded stories that Cox was pursuing the possible misuse of public funds on Nixon's San Clemente estate. Richardson warned Cox that this might be beyond the special prosecutor's jurisdiction. Cox conceded only that no such probe was under way. But a week later, according to the report, Richardson asked that the Justice Department be allowed to "screen" any avenue of Cox's investigation to decide whether it was proper. Cox refused. Later, Richardson tried to dissuade Cox from interviewing Secret Service agents about the handling...
...eight of whom have pleaded guilty to theft or related charges. Bunge still faces possible civil suits from the Government, its customers and transportation companies. Meantime, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Agriculture, several congressional committees and the General Accounting Office continue to probe into the scandal. Their investigations are expected to lead to more corporate indictments...
...center will use the funds to try to develop a portable electro-cardiogram analyzer, a probe which measures the blood flow rate in tissue, and two larger instruments to analyze respiratory and dizziness data...
Wrongly Accused. The committee did not ask the IRS Commissioner about charges, brought by disgruntled members of his own investigative staff, that he had improperly halted an IRS probe of wealthy U.S. citizens who may have filed false tax claims based on income-losing ventures in the Bahamas. Church doubted if this fell under the committee's scope. Privately, committee members seemed satisfied that Alexander had been wrongly accused; he had prudently interrupted the investigation because some of the IRS evidence might have been "tainted" by the way it was acquired. An IRS undercover agent apparently had supplied...
...initial digging into the Watergate scandal in 1972. He and several other agents wanted to conduct an aggressive investigation that might well have led them to the White House officials who ran the Watergate coverup. But Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray was reluctant to push the probe, especially after the CIA, at the instigation of White House aides, urged him to restrict the inquiry, ostensibly to protect U.S. intelligence activities in Mexico. At Bates' suggestion, Gray asked the CIA to put the requests in writing, and the CIA officials backed off. Instead of rewarding Bates and his colleagues...