Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relief that the potentially combustible case seemed closed. But last week it was revived when U.S. District Judge Harold Greene ordered the appointment of a special prosecutor. In a toughly worded 31-page ruling that drew some parallels to Watergate, Greene called Smith's handling of the probe "arbitrary and unlawful...
...against Utica Bankshares of Tulsa, a bank holding company that Thompson had recently headed. The SEC charged that Utica had violated federal securities laws in 1982 by underreporting its estimated losses. Thompson had failed to let other board members know that his bank was the target of a securities probe. It has also been disclosed that while serving on the SFC board, Thompson tried to sell Utica stock to Texas Oilman Belton K. Johnson, even as Johnson sought multimillion-dollar subsidies from the SFC for two tar-sands projects. Last week the agency asked the Justice Department to look into...
...Thirteen months ago, the late Yuri Andropov called for an international ban on space weapons, and last August he declared a unilateral moratorium on Soviet launches of antisatellite weapons. While there is good reason to be wary of Soviets bearing disarmament initiatives, there is no reason for refusing to probe them further. Yet the Reagan Administration dismissed Soviet ASAT feelers out of hand. It did so partly because of its shortsighted and amnesiac confidence in the superiority of American high tech, and partly because of its deep-seated distaste for arms control of any kind...
...start off, the flap with former Police Commissioner Sanford H. Gorodetsky erupted Sandy, ironically, was both the city's Top Cop and major target in a probe by the police over corruption in City Hall Sandy doesn't like the Police Chief. Anthony J. Mancuso and so he fired him minutes after Cianci said he would resign...
...another confusing tidbit. A city councilwoman on that same Monday tossed a number-two man at the city's Department of Public Works from the payroll. The DPW has been revealed as a swarming hive of iniquity by Chief Tony Mancuso's probe, and its deputy director. Edward Melise, lost his DPW job a while back when he was convicted of extortion Mayor Cianci had been nice enough to put Eddie on $503-a-week paid leave, but the council didn't figure that was the right punishment...