Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the Department of Justice, which had launched its own probe, agreed. The FBI spent eight months interviewing 220 people, including Reagan, and examining 1,000 boxes of documents and tapes, but could not find out how the papers changed hands. In its three-page report the Justice Department found no evidence that a crime had been committed, since the documents were neither classified nor Government property...
...image of Israeli bankers could be damaged further by a probe launched late last year by the Histadrut, Israel's major labor federation. The organization, which runs Bank Hapoalim, the nation's second largest bank, is investigating rumors about Yaacov Levinson, a prominent Labor Party member and the bank's former managing director. Levinson, according to stories that he angrily denies, shifted bank funds abroad without authorization. Last week the Israeli Attorney General joined the Bank of Israel and a parliamentary committee in looking into the charges. The so-called Levinson Affair has already deepened the loss...
Rarely had a conclusion been so inconclusive. After a four-month, $320,000 probe into the extent of hunger in the U.S., the 13-member President's Task Force on Food Assistance produced a report last week that wound up by saying, "We have not been able to substantiate allegations of rampant hunger." Though the study acknowledged that some were going hungry, it insisted there was no way to determine who and how many...
...never seen him before. In one bar, a man said that investigators had shown him a picture of a frequent customer who looked like Kiessling, but was in fact a civilian employee of the army. Some of the civilian investigating officials who cooperated with military-security officers in the probe now refuse to testify against the general again. Kiessling last week asked that official disciplinary procedures be brought against him by the military in order to clear his name. The defense ministry says that it is looking into the case further...
Meanwhile, the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation of possible perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the SEC probe...