Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beall became convinced that big Maryland building projects, which had been controlled by Democrats for several years, were riddled with corruption. Thus, in early January, he issued a set of sweeping subpoenas demanding several tons of county records, and later announced to a grand jury the opening of a probe into "contract-purchase irregularities." As the investigation widened, it was apparent that major state political figures were involved. Among them...
Quite apart from that colloquy, Ehrlichman ran into a buzz saw of committee questions when he claimed that 1) he had not authorized the burglary, 2) it was necessary because FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had resisted an effective probe of Ellsberg out of friendship for Louis Marx, the wealthy father of Ellsberg's wife, and 3) "foreign intelligence" was involved in the Ellsberg case because copies of the Pentagon papers had been given to the Soviet embassy. Ehrlichman was on thin ground on all three points...
...legendary trustbusters cracked John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil empire in 1911 has the petroleum industry been under so much antimonopolistic fire. Last week the Florida state prosecutor hit the big oil companies with an antitrust suit, while in Los Angeles a federal grand jury opened a massive probe of price fixing and monopolistic marketing. In Washington, the Federal Trade Commission staff turned over to a Senate subcommittee a report charging that gasoline shortages are in part the result of widespread "anticompetitive" practices. In Congress, legislators introduced a number of bills that would break the oil companies up into...
...only since May 17, promised to resist any attempts to use the IRS for political purposes. Dean's testimony also set in motion an investigation by the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, chaired by the formidable Wilbur Mills. The IRS has launched a probe to find out who authorized the audits of Gibbons and Greene. That may be impossible to discover. Dean said he had been told that all that is required for an audit is an expertly worded anonymous letter to a regional IRS office...
...supplied the committee with a White House summary of conversations between Dean and Nixon that conflicted with Dean's account; this too was quickly conveyed to newsmen. Still apparently unwilling to abandon its discredited snooping tactics, the White House, TIME has also learned, has hired private detectives to probe Dean's background further. Claimed a source friendly to Dean: "They can't call on the FBI any more, so they've gone out and hired their own private eyes...