Asked how closely the fund would scrutinize documents like sworn statements, Ms. Birnbaum said she understood how hard it was to recreate records after a decade, and was going on the basic assumption that people would be honest.
As it began evaluating Ms. Tymoshenko's case on Friday, the Higher Administrative Court in Kiev rejected her petition to scrutinize documents from election districts in the Crimean Peninsula, a Yanukovich stronghold, and also to question election and law-enforcement officials.
Tymoshenko withdrew her appeal on 20 February 2010, after the Higher Administrative Court in Kiev rejected her petition to scrutinize documents from election districts in Crimea and to question election and law-enforcement officials.
The F.D.I.C. cannot compel witnesses to testify and produce documents like a federal grand jury, and its review is limited largely to scrutinizing the documents from the failed bank to see if there are telltale signs of fraud or improper lending practices.
These past deals show why Dell shareholders will be scrutinizing these documents very carefully to learn about Mr. Dell's involvement in the buyout process and whether they are getting a good deal.
But Colonel Glantz concludes, after scrutinizing the documents, that the Red Army initially made every reasonable effort to come to the Poles' assistance and later chose not to -- Stalin's political considerations aside -- because such action would have required a major reorientation of military efforts and a consequent slackening of the main offensive against German forces.
But the versions differ in content: Silberg, who has a Ph.D. in business administration and is accustomed to scrutinizing such documents, spotted a numeral in the Chinese version that was missing from the English: 6.
"The job is mainly a solo affair and involves careful scrutinizing of documents, such as patent applications for similar technologies, reflective deliberation about how the client's invention is different, and working out how to craft the wording of the patent claim," Hillis says.
He said the department had also established a document integrity unit to scrutinize all documents presented by people applying for licenses.
But after scrutinizing the document and interviewing two of the surviving victims by phone, Zelicoff and his Monterey Institute colleagues reached a different conclusion.
