Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gunned down Denver Talk Show Host Alan Berg in his driveway last June. Pierce has been on the run since April 1984, when he failed to appear for sentencing after pleading guilty in Spokane to charges of counterfeiting. As law-enforcement agencies intensified their probe of right-wing terror groups, they came to consider Pierce the most wanted man in the West...
...probe of Cartier revealed that at least $260,000 in taxes went unpaid on 125 sales over three years. Warnock and Foster allegedly allowed some customers, who will not be prosecuted, to supply false non-New York shipping addresses (out-of-state buyers are exempt from sales taxes). Investigators charge that Cartier sent empty boxes to the bogus addresses, but the jewels left the store in the customers' pockets. Similar tax scams could be depriving New York State and local governments of more than $100 million in tax revenue annually; several retailers are still under investigation. Said New York City...
...Says John Zellars, chairman of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions: "Home State really made bad investments, and, basically, they were dealing with crooks. That is not the usual way S and Ls operate." The new Ohio legislation provides for a special prosecutor to probe the connection between Home State and E.S.M...
Much of Ohio's investigation will focus on Financier Marvin Warner, Home State's owner and until recently a major investor in E.S.M. The probe will put additional heat on Celeste, since Warner was one of his biggest campaign contri butors. Warner, who stayed away from Ohio last week in his Miami apartment, blames Home State's collapse primarily on E.S.M.'s accountant. Says he: "It's not only a matter of terrible personal loss, it's a feeling of humiliation...
Federal investigators began looking into the hospital scandal after James A. Cobb Jr., a Louisiana attorney who represented other health-care operators, filed a suit against the state. "The people I represent are decent, hardworking people who didn't get a fair shake," Cobb complained. Once the probe was under way, Cobb contends, he got anonymous telephone threats. One caller, according to Cobb, said, "My friend, you really don't know what you're messing around with...