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...suit would primarily target disgraced former Teamsters president Ron Carey and other Teamsters officials for allegedly embezzling nearly $1 million in cash from the union. But it would also cite top Democratic fund-raisers, including Terrence McAuliffe, who was recently appointed chief fund-raiser for Al Gore. A federal probe into Carey?s 1996 election as union president found that he and representatives of the DNC set up an illegal contribution swap scheme in which the Teamsters would contribute $10 for every dollar the Democrats steered from wealthy donors into the Carey campaign. As a result, federal overseers nullified Carey...
...retired Major General David Hale, for having allegedly engaged in similar behavior. The charges triggered an investigation of Hale, once the Army's deputy inspector general, who's accused of having conducted improper relationships with the wives of four military officers and then making false statements to investigators. The probe could result in a court-martial...
SWITCHED AT BIRTH Investigators last month completed a probe into how newborns Callie Conley and Rebecca Chittum, below left and right, were swapped before leaving a Virginia hospital in 1995. The inquiry concluded that no crime was committed, yet the girls' ID bands somehow got misplaced. Hospital records show that at 6 a.m., Callie weighed more than Rebecca. After 8:30 a.m., the results were reversed. That no medical personnel noticed could mean legal trouble for the hospital. Now relatives are fighting over Rebecca, the biological daughter of Paula Johnson. Rebecca's two sets of grandparents were supposed to raise...
...that wanted to use the issue against her. And several weeks ago, an anonymous caller told Steele's sister that Steele should back Willey's story "if she knows what's good for her and her son." The family has received no word about the results of an FBI probe into the matter. Starr's spokesman has said he couldn't discuss the case. But Steele does know one thing: "I feel I have been strapped to the train track...
...report, which blasts Citibank for failing to follow its own procedures against money laundering, is expected to become more than just an investigative must-read. "The upshot of the report," says Gwynne, "will now be Senate hearings next year and the revival of a Justice Department probe." For its part, Citibank says the GAO got some of its facts and interpretations wrong, but that in any event the bank will cooperate with investigators. Keep watching for the next chapter...