Prosecutors have started a criminal probe into Dr. Hwang for misappropriation of state funds.
Prosecutors declined to comment, and the exact nature of the criminal probe couldn't be determined.
There's no indication customers are targets in the criminal probe, says Washington tax lawyer Michael C.
Can you give a sense of when a criminal probe might emerge in the spill case?
Castillo said he would seek a criminal probe into the source of the reports.
Despite the criminal probe, there is "no suggestion that the Indian wood was cut illegally, " he says.
Mr. Rajaratnam's other brother, Rengan, 40, also drew the interest of investigators before the criminal probe of Galleon began.
U.S. prosecutors have launched a criminal probe into whether eBay employees took confidential information from Craigslist , according to Reuters.
But these are the two main things, the criminal probe against Hwang and Hwang's accusations that someone was out to get him.
Mr. Obama called such activities unacceptable and the Justice Department launched a criminal probe, but IRS officials have been far less than forthcoming.
And now there is a criminal probe of Olmert's role in the privatization of Israel's second largest bank when he was finance minister.
The arrests are part of a criminal probe police opened more than a year ago to investigate allegations that British journalists were bribing public officials for information.
British authorities said Thursday they have arrested a 37-year-old woman on suspicion of paying bribes to police, as part of a criminal probe into wrongdoing at News Corp.
In FCPA cases, unlike almost any other criminal probe, companies under investigation are required to do the bulk of the detective work themselves, typically by hiring an outside law firm.
Lawyers representing Clemens in the civil case had sought to withhold more than 1, 600 pages of documents from the government's criminal probe on the basis that they were grand jury material.
The Supreme Court laid out a balancing test of sorts: a basic need for executive confidentiality and candor, weighed against the public interests of congressional oversight, a criminal probe or prosecution.
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Meanwhile, the poster child of the boom, Ratio, has seen its star fade after authorities launched a criminal probe of the company's relationship with an Israeli wanted by the U.S. on racketeering and conspiracy charges.
The committee generally refrained from making pronouncements on former News International executives who are among roughly 40 people arrested as part of a massive British criminal probe into phone hacking, bribery, obstruction of justice and computer hacking.
"And there was no basis in law or fact for either of the Kelleys to be investigated as the subjects or targets of the FBI's criminal probe, " given that they were originally viewed as victims of anonymous harassment.
The person familiar with the matter said criminal prosecutors, during their probe, conducted interviews with several riders outside the formal grand-jury proceedings.
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An ongoing investigation by The Justice Department at a civil level is continuing in tandem with a probe of potential criminal violations.
There was another pleasant surprise for liberal idealists on February 26th, when the UN Security Council unanimously agreed (along with other punitive measures) to tell the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to probe the Libyan crisis.
Mr. Morris is fighting criminal charges against him related to the probe.
Hacohen said that hacking is a criminal act against citizens and the Israeli authorities have begun a criminal investigation, including a computer forensic probe to search for electronic evidence in an attempt to locate the group.
The probe is part of a wider criminal investigation into illegal reporting tactics, including email and voice-mail interception.
The probe culminated in recent months with a series of arrests, criminal complaints, and indictments brought by federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Va.
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Fitzgerald was appointed in December 2003 to oversee the probe, which originally was being led by the Justice Department's criminal division.
Mr. Holder said the Justice probe would include a review of "a variety of statutes within the IRS code" and the federal criminal code.
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