Search

Reports that the U.S. Justice Department has opened an inquiry into whether executives at the Royal Dutch/Shell Group violated any laws by their delayed disclosure of a significant shortfall in proven reserves of oil and natural gas. How the company and its executives are already the focus of investigations by European regulators and the Securities and Exchange Commission; Authority of the Justice Department to bring criminal as well as civil charges; Background on the Justice Department inquiry; Details of how the company lowered its estimates; Importance of reserves for oil and natural gas companies.

Reports that the United States State Department has charged Lockheed Martin Corp. with violations of arms export laws in connection with its help in evaluating problems in Chinese-made satellite technology in 1994. Penalty imposed against the aerospace company; Proposal of Lockheed officials in resolving the case; Why the department views the matter as serious.

Reports that the United States Justice Department has obtained a note from the office of Yah Lin Trie, a Democratic fundraiser, that suggests he was aware of a bribery problem. Items listed in the note; Information on the charges against Trie.

Reports the October 19, 1999 indictment, by a United States grand jury in Washington, D.C., of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation and a state-owned Chinese aerospace company on charges of conspiring to hide details of a 1994 sale of machining equipment. Chinese military use of the equipment; Implications for relations between China and the US; Details of the indictment and responses.

Focuses on the investigation led by independent counsel Kenneth Starr of United States President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in Arkansas. The issue of Whitewater, a failed land venture, and its link to the savings and loan, Madison Guaranty; Starr having to make a decision as to whether there was a cover-up or just political damage control; Background on the inquiry.

Informs about the Federal District court's decision for a 21 month sentence to Webster L. Hubbell for mail fraud and tax evasion. Information about the court's proceedings; Details of Hubbell's background.

Reports about a suit filed on June 14, 1995 by Donald W. Henry in the state court in Los Angeles against Representative Christopher Cox. Charges include misleading regulators and investors in the 1980's about the condition of a real estate investment fund; Focus on Cox's efforts to introduce a measure for limiting lawsuits in the House; Details of the suit.

Provides information on charges against Webster L. Hubbell. Involvement in the Whitewater case; Inquiry by independent counsel Kenneth Starr into financial dealings of President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary; Background of Hubbell and his partners in Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas; Impact on the firm.

Reports that presidential friend and adviser Vernon E. Jordan Jr. spent March 3, 1998 testifying before the federal grand jury that is investigating US President Bill Clinton's relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Jordan's testimony about his efforts to find a lawyer and a job for Lewinsky shortly after she was named a possible witness in Paula Jones' sexual misconduct suit against the president.

Reports on the indictment of Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker, on charges of fraud and conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. Details of the charges; Defense by Tucker.

Reports that according to White House press secretary Michael D. McCurry, American President Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton and their aides were not aware of serious nature of the allegations against Webster L. Hubbell, until he pleaded guilty to fraud charges at the end of 1994. Comments from McCurry; Investigation into the relationship between Hubbell and Clinton.

Focuses on Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's September 11, 1998 report to the United States Congress on his investigation of American President Bill Clinton's relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, which cites information supporting 11 possible grounds for impeaching President Clinton. Credibility and substantiality of this information; Four charges that this information comes down to; Difficulty in evaluating the effect of the case.

Informs that the Federal Election Commission has charged that Gopac, the political organization led for years by Speaker Newt Gingrich, provided him with hidden support in his 1990 re-election campaign. The $250,000 the commission asserts was given by Gopac; Response by Lauren Sims, a Gingrich spokeswoman.