FBI Probes California GOP Congressman's Land Deals
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9 -- A Republican congressman from California defended his reputation this week, as FBI investigators look into charges that he improperly delayed paying taxes on several lucrative land deals.
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GuardianFilms:  The illegal immigrant has become the whipping boy of the  Republican Party.  But, in California with the GuardianFilms team, the Observer's Paul Harris finds that the crackdown on cheap, immigrant labour is hurting food production
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A former Republican congressman from Michigan was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of money laundering and obstruction of justice.
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House Democrats are expanding their investigation into ties between jailed GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House and have contacted several Abramoff associates recently about testifying to Congress.
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The FBI&#039;s weekend search of the House office of a Louisiana Democrat under investigation for bribery may have overstepped Constitutional boundaries, House leaders said as the congressman under investigation pledged to stay in office.
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Â· Present and former star players implicatedÂ· Congress may launch new investigation
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The FBI has expanded its investigation of Halliburton&#39;s work in Iraq to determine if the Pentagon improperly awarded no-bid contracts, according to reports published Thursday.
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Los Angeles Angels outfielder Garry Matthews Jr. has been linked to a two-year investigation by the Albany County district attorney into an illegal steroid-distribution network.
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The FBI has expanded an investigation into allegations of contract irregularities by Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown &amp; Root Inc.
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The FBI is investigating whether Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons failed to properly report gifts or payments from a software company that was awarded secret military contracts when he was in Congress, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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A drug company executive who spoke out in support of Montgomery County's proposal to import drugs from Canada and similar legislation before Congress said that his company has launched an investigation into his political activities.
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Eight-term Republican Rep. John T. Doolittle of CaliforniaÃ¢ÂÂs 4th District has not faced legal repercussions stemming from his past association with now-convicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Still to be determined, though, is whether there will be any serious reverberations on Nov. 7 Ã¢ÂÂ when voters go the polls in a Republican stronghold that the conservative Doolittle has dominated in his past elections.
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By By Kathe Tanner, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep. 21--Authorities seized 5,777 marijuana plants on Hearst Ranch property, along the ridgeline about four miles southeast of Hearst Castle, a sheriff's official confirmed today.
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A Congressional committee, federal prosecutors and the FBI all join California's Attorney General to investigate the legalities of Hewlett Packard's questionable information-gathering methods.
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Baseball Representatives of former Senator George Mitchell's commission examining illicit steroid use in Major League Baseball are scheduled to meet today with Albany County (N.Y.) prosecutors, who are investigating a nationwide drug distribution network. In their first meeting in March, prosecutors said they did not turn over any player names. Prosecutors and investigators have spent months sifting through thousands of ...
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The ex-congressman's e-mails to teenage boys have sparked FBI and House probes, hurting GOP leaders.
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House leaders acknowledged Friday that FBI agents with a court-issued warrant can legally search a congressman&#039;s office, but they said they want procedures established after agents with a court warrant took over a lawmaker&#039;s office last week.