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July 11, 2011
California
Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich on Tuesday called for a grand jury investigation of the spending and billing practices of Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc., a consulting firm that has been paid $14 million for work on the Metro Rail rapid transit project.
Nov. 6, 1991
Business
The Internal Revenue Service will look into whether it can combine the complicated W-4 tax withholding form and the new, simplified W-4A next year, IRS Commissioner Lawrence B.
March 15, 1987
* German airline DBA said it planned to buy as many as 40 Boeing Co. 737s.
Nov. 15, 2005
Four major consulting and accounting firms agreed to pay more than $25 million to settle charges that they had overbilled the government for travel expenses, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Jan. 4, 2006
Entertainment & Arts
AOL Time Warner Inc., the biggest media and Internet company, said it named Jim Rosenthal president of New Line Television, replacing Robert Friedman.
March 14, 2001
In another strange twist in the merger wars, Paramount Communications is said to be sitting on a report which says there’s roughly eight times more long-term shareholder value in a merger with Viacom than with rival QVC Network.
Nov. 9, 1993
John Elting Treat has been named a vice president in the energy practice of the consulting firms Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc. in San Francisco.
Dec. 28, 1989
Harbor commissioners are moving ahead with plans to streamline port operations and cut staff at the Harbor Department by up to 35%.
March 9, 1995
World & Nation
The District of Columbia Police Department is in disarray, plagued by mismanagement, wasteful spending, lost evidence and blown cases, and has an unguarded property warehouse and drug lab piled high with guns and narcotics that are “vulnerable to direct attack,” according to confidential consultants’ reports obtained by the Washington Post.
Oct. 19, 1997