Now, private banks and wealth managers are scrambling to convert so-called black money - assets that have not been disclosed - into accounts that are above board.
But as I found out later, none of the material evidence I disclosed went into the official record.
Investigators said the collapse occurred after the driver of the fuel truck, whose identity was not disclosed, drove into the parking garage.
Widening their previously disclosed inquiries into contract fraud and corruption in Kuwait and Iraq, investigators from the Justice and Defense Departments are examining deals that the Sara Lee Corporation, ConAgra Foods Inc. and other American companies made to supply the military, officials said.
In fact, documents and interviews show that the case grew much bigger than has been publicly disclosed, spinning into a web of counterintelligence investigations that eventually involved more than a dozen suspects, a handful of military and civilian agencies and numerous agents in the United States and overseas.
Republican-leaning third-party groups, however, many of them financed by large, unrestricted donations that are not publicly disclosed, have swarmed into the breach, pouring more than $60 million into competitive races since July, about 80 percent more than the Democratic-leaning groups have reported spending.
Newmont, the largest gold producer in the world, said the restatement would correct accounting for previously disclosed contracts entered into in July 1999.
Hoon statement on Iraq abuse claims Mr Hoon disclosed that investigations into two cases of alleged improper behaviour had reached an "advanced stage" with prosecution decisions pending.
The men, whose identities were not disclosed, were taken into custody on Monday, according to French officials, and were being interviewed by an investigative judge on Friday.
If the investigation leads to charges, it would be the latest in a rapid series of complaints brought by the attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, since he disclosed his investigation into mutual fund trading less than two months ago.
