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...internal probe came in response to a separate investigation spearheaded by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Last week, it was revealed that officials are also investigating whether Greenberg attempted to prop up AIG’s stock price in the weeks before his removal...
Only England's commanding officer, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who was demoted last week. An Army probe cleared the other top brass last month...
Meanwhile, the man running the U.N.'s probe of the scandal-ridden program scrambled last week to protect some of his findings from Congress. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker demanded that investigators on Capitol Hill return boxes of evidence they received from one of his employees who quit last month, associates say, angry because a Volcker report had underplayed criticism of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Concerned about leaks, Volcker said the documents included names of confidential sources "whose lives quite literally would be at risk if information about their cooperation became known...
...dealed himself into one of three Deputy Prime Minister positions in Iraq. The day after Rice dialed him, an Administration official says, Vice President Dick Cheney phoned to congratulate Chalabi (and placed a similar call to another Deputy Prime Minister). U.S. officials have taken no action in the probe into Chalabi's dealings with Iran. And they argue that he will play a vital role in Iraq's fledgling democracy after he brought together disparate Shi'ite parties to make the January elections a success. "He is the one who can make this work," says a U.S. official...
...only one where they hold as many seats as Republicans, had shut it down to protest a rule change that required the support of a majority of committee members before any investigation could proceed. They charged that it had been designed to give Republicans a veto against any probe of DeLay. The about-face by Republicans on the rules was so sudden that Alan Mollohan, the top Democrat on the ethics committee, was still reading the resolution as he went to the House Rules Committee to testify in favor of it. It passed the House...