The Reagan Administration's recent report to Congress on alleged Soviet arms control violations seemed to follow a predictable pattern.
Beyond financial crimes, deferred agreements have been used in lieu of prosecuting companies — though not individuals — for export control violations, obscenity violations, Medicare and Medicaid fraud, kickbacks and environmental violations.
"Those complaints have never subsided," said Allen, who has introduced a bill that would require restaurants to follow pest-prevention plans and would establish a fund for inspection and enforcement of rodent control violations.
In another important development, the C.I.A. revised its methodology for estimating the yield of Soviet underground nuclear tests based on seismic monitoring, an action that has undercut the Administration's charge of Soviet arms control violations.
Current and former government officials say that the government's inquiry into some of Blackwater's export control violations began as part of a federal grand jury investigation in North Carolina, where Blackwater is based.
Contrary to the article's implication that the commission caved to pressure from Citigroup, the commission referred Mr. Bowen's allegations of internal control violations and fraud at Citigroup to the Justice Department for further investigation and, if warranted, prosecution.
Cordis was the first to complete clinical trials for the device, known as a carotid stent, but both Guidant and Abbott beat it to market because Cordis was hit more than two years ago with a warning letter citing numerous manufacturing and quality control violations at its factories.
He said the disputes had surfaced on almost all of Mr. Reagan's major policy statements, including those on the overhaul of the Federal tax code, aid to Nicaraguan insurgents, Soviet arms control violations and the antimissile defense shield, formally known as the Strategic Defense Initiative.
