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...Stephens could be dismissed. Stephanopoulos later explained that he was "just blowing off steam" and had no intent to interfere with the investigation. But other Clinton advisers told reporters in March that they feared that the Stephanopoulos call -- and some 20 other White House-Treasury conversations about the RTC probe between September and February -- might result in indictments for obstruction of justice. Those meetings and calls involved deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, then White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum and other top officials...
HYERES: The investigation into the February murder of French legislator and anticrime crusader Yann Piat near this southern city took a new twist last week. Shortly after her murder by two motorcycle-riding gunmen, police had collared two thugs who worked as musclemen for Piat's political rivals. A probe of the local political milieu then resulted in charges of corruption against several officials. Last week police dropped murder charges against the original suspects and arrested Lucien Ferri, 22, who has confessed to firing the fatal shots, and Marco Di Caro, 21, who admitted driving the motorcycle. This opens...
...states are cracking down on scalping, although so far with little success. Newspapers in major cities routinely carry classified ads for top tickets, many of them placed by illegal operators. New York is investigating allegations of collusion between brokers and box-office employees as part of a wide-ranging probe of ticket-selling practices. Georgia, trying to prevent a replay of the Super Bowl scalping last January that drove ticket prices from $175 to as much as $1,200 apiece, has passed a new law making it illegal to scalp tickets for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Even such...
Thompson, 41, showed a penchant for investigative reporting from the start of his journalistic career. At the Pendulum, his hometown paper in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, he alternated coverage of bake sales with exposes of the local police department that led to an FBI probe and the firing of the town's police chief. After more local reporting, in Pontiac, Michigan, he shifted to the nation's capital 15 years ago, and quickly mastered the balancing act required of any Washington correspondent. As TIME's Washington bureau chief Dan Goodgame puts it, "He manages to ask tough questions and write...
...First Couple spent part of their weekend being grilled by Special Prosecutor Robert Fiske, who is investigating Whitewater. One focus of the interviews: any contact the White House had with regulators overseeing a probe into the alleged Savings and Loan scandal. Another area of concern was whether anyone tampered with evidence following the suicide of White House aide Vincent Foster. Just when Fiske will turn over his findings to Congress remains unclear, though the Clintons would probably prefer a release date as far from the 1996 election as possible. In the last comparable presidential inquiry, a subpoenaed former President Ronald...