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...members of the House offered fellow Republican Nick Smith of Michigan a bribe--in the form of a hefty contribution to his son's congressional campaign--to vote for the measure on Nov. 22. And the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began a probe into charges by Richard Foster, Medicare's top cost analyst, that the program's then administrator, Thomas Scully, threatened to fire him last June if he told Congress the prescription-drug bill would cost more than $500 billion, well above the $400 billion the Administration had publicly acknowledged. The higher...
Parmalat on Ice The milkmen were delivered just in time. After a three-month probe, Milan prosecutors sought indictments against Parmalat founder Calisto Tanzi, former finance director Fausto Tonna and 27 other people last week, the day before the expiration date to qualify for fast-track court proceedings in the €14 billion collapse of the Italian dairy-and-food giant. The executives are accused of an elaborate fraud scheme, including falsifying balance sheets and misleading investors. The Italian affiliates...
...December ? The National Assembly passes a bill setting up an independent probe into election graft; Roh pledges to resign if investigators find his election campaign accepted more than one-tenth the amount of illegal contributions allegedly received by the opposition Grand National Party...
Still, a Justice Department probe may be in the offing, and it won't be the only one aimed at Republicans. The FBI is investigating whether Michigan Republican Representative Nick Smith was offered a bribe to support the Medicare reform bill. Smith alleged in November that unnamed G.O.P. Congressmen offered to donate $100,000 to his son's campaign for the House if he backed the bill. (He now says he got only a vague offer of "significant financial support...
...know how much he knew about terror warnings in August, 2001, and what he did on his unusually long August vacation when some in the CIA were panicking about new threats. I’d like to know what will come of the grand jury on the CIA leak probe, which issued several subpoenas to the White House Friday. We need to understand that history to spare our nation the danger of repeating...