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The Bush administration and major oil companies are participating in an unlikely alliance with activist groups in support of an international campaign for more disclosure of information about financial transactions […]

John Walker Lindh, the 20-year-old American who fought with the Taliban, has provided useful information to United States officials who have detained him at a desert Marine base in southern […]

An order by federal regulators that power generators enter settlement talks with the State of California could open the door to a sweeping compromise of the financial issues in the […]

Odell Buggs walked into the federal courthouse in downtown Rochester on a cold and snowy Tuesday in December 1999, not knowing quite what to expect. She walked out with a […]

The State Department has charged the Lockheed Martin Corporation with 30 violations of arms export laws in connection with its help in evaluating problems in Chinese-made satellite technology in 1994. […]

The Justice Department is investigating whether the McDonnell Douglas Corporation violated a Federal law that bars military contractors from winning sales contracts abroad by inducing American companies to buy goods […]

A House subcommittee today approved legislation that could subject outside White House advisers to conflict of interest laws and ethics rules. The bill, which unanimously passed the subcommittee on Government […]

The Justice Department provided new details today into when and why it opened an investigation into the trail of tens of millions of dollars whisked out of Mexico to Switzerland […]

The Federal Reserve Board has found that Saudi Arabia's largest bank and its former chief executive violated American banking laws in trying to acquire control of the Washington-based First American […]

Bill Clinton and his wife were business partners with the owner of a failing savings and loan association that was subject to state regulation early in his tenure as Governor […]

A report released today by Congressional auditors criticizes Federal regulators for what it calls their lax supervision of the Bank of New England before it failed. The report, issued by […]

LEAD: The Federal Government's intensified war on drug trafficking has for the first time clashed with the most profitable segment of the banking business. The Federal Government's intensified war on […]

A Senate subcommittee today urged as one measure to combat money laundering the possible imposition of sanctions against countries with offshore banks whose governments refuse to cooperate with United States […]

At first glance, most arms deals here seem to involve superpower negotiations or a General Dynamics, the Pentagon or some other member of what some call the military-industrial complex. But […]

LEAD: In the spring of 1983, when Lyn Nofziger, a White House aide turned lobbyist, was asked for advice about making such a career move, he could hardly have been […]

During the long presidency of Ferdinand E. Marcos, his associates made continuing efforts to strengthen Philippine business and political ties in the United States. These efforts are now the subject […]

LEAD: In the wake of last month's stock market plunge, world financial regulators have intensified their effort to change outdated national regulations to cope with an increasingly global market. In […]

LEAD: Despite new legal tools to combat computer fraud, prosecutors find it difficult to bring charges against those who intrude into multiple computer systems, as did the computer science student […]

The White House counsel was never consulted as the National Security Council, operating with the approval of President Reagan, supervised shipments of military materiel to Iran over the last 18 […]

LEAD: Three South Africans and two Americans have been charged with trying to export American missile technology illegally to South Africa in a case that raises new questions about military […]

LEAD: The internal inspectors of three Federal agencies told Congress today about serious weaknesses in the agencies' enforcement of Federal law. The internal inspectors of three Federal agencies told Congress […]

LEAD: An obscure criminal law, first enacted in 1958, is in the middle of a topical issue in Washington these days: the appearance of conflict of interest. An obscure criminal […]