Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Justice Department has assigned more than 100 FBI agents to the Teamster probe-the most intensive investigation of the union since Robert...
...evidence concerning Lance's loans was inconclusive-and in some respects plainly on his side. But the charges were so serious-and so well publicized-that Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff, chairman of the committee, called for an investigation; the committee will decide this week whether to begin a probe. "If we just drop this thing," said Ribicoff, "we would be doing a disservice to Mr. Lance, a disservice to the President and a disservice to the country." Meanwhile, investigators from the U.S. Comptroller's office gathered up the records of Lance's big loan from the First...
...Gestapo police state." Scientology lawyers went to court to demand the return of the seized material and a gag order forbidding the authorities to reveal what they had found. Although the matter quickly bogged down in legal technicalities, most observers predicted eventual court approval for continuation of the probe...
INSURANCE PROBES. These provide an almost inexhaustible supply of horror stories. Denver District Attorney Dale Tooley discovered that 55 insurance companies used Factual Service Bureau Inc. of Chicago, whose gumshoes impersonated clergymen and doctors. This enabled them to winnow information from hospitals, the FBI, the Veterans Administration, the Social Security Administration and the IRS. Because of Tooley's probe, 20 individuals and companies -including Factual Service, Home In demnity Co. of New York, Northwestern National Insurance Co. of Milwaukee and Reliance Insurance Co. of Ohio -are being prosecuted for theft...
...public disclosure in connection with transactions of G & W's securities, the company's pension funds and its dealings in the shares of an auto-parts subsidiary that had some stock traded on the over-the-counter exchange. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau is supervising another probe. Finally, the New York State senate committee on crime and correction is examining the possibility that organized crime may be linked to the operations of Madison Square Garden Corp., another G&W affiliate. Jeremiah B. McKenna, general counsel to the committee, dismisses inquiring reporters with a cryptic comment...