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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1980
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Ifhite-collar crimes targeted
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Swine fever measure urged
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Attorney
Benjamin Civiletti issued
ailed priorites Wednesday for a
federal fight against white-collar
crime, but dodged questions on
whether he will step up FBI under-
er activities such as the Abscam
Hbe.
i We intend to zero in on the kinds
diite-collar crime that most affect
I people of this country, ” Civiletti
said
|‘These crimes threaten the pock-
tbooks of the nation’s citizens — as
msumers, taxpayers, business per-
lons and investors. ”
^ased on an eight-month Justice
Apartment study, Civiletti
lounced seven priorities in the
ht against white-collar crime for all
U.S. attorney’s offices, all inspec-
generals of federal agencies and
FBI.
he priorities include emphasis on
abating:
Corruption among public offi-
at all levels of government.
Crimes against the government
private citizens, including tax
ud, procurement fraud, program
ml and counterfeiting.
■—Fraud against business, such as
embezzlement, bank fraud, insur
ance fraud, bankruptcy fraud and
labor racketeering.
Crimes against consumers, in
cluding defrauding of customers,
ititrust violations and energy pric-
g violations.
Crimes against investors, in-
White color crimes threaten the
pocketbooks of the nation’s citizens — as
consumers, taxpayers, business persons and
investors.
eluding stock and real estate swin
dles.
— Crimes against employees, in
cluding life-endangering health and
safety violations and corruption by
union leaders.
— Hazardous waste dumping and
other practices threatening the pub
lic health.
With FBI Director William Webs
ter and Inspector General Kurt
Muellenbergofthe General Services
Administration sitting by at a brief
ing, Civiletti said adoption of the
priorities is unprecedented.
“It’s the first time that we’ve been
able together, working with 20 de
partments and agencies, to come to a
consensus and to recognize the im
portance of updating information,
and to have a baseline from which to
measure performance and non
performance,” he said.
Reporters asked Civiletti whether
the new approach to white-collar
crime would include more FBI
undercover operations, such as the
Abscam probe in which agents posed
as bribe-paying Arabs and their asso
ciates.
Civiletti declined to say whether
those investigations will increase in
number, but defended the tactic as
“essential to effective federal law en
forcement as well as state law en
forcement.”
He said department officials have
learned from the Abscam investiga
tion.
“One of the things we’ve learned is
that videotapes are terribly impor
tant and quite convincing,” Civiletti
said. “We should have known that
long ago, that a picture is worth a
thousand words.”
Asked whether the FBI was care
ful to avoid entrapping congressmen
into committing crimes they other
wise would not have committed,
Civiletti said the conviction of Rep.
Michael “Ozzie” Myers, D-Pa., and
five other pending cases will show
the probes were carefully moni
tored.
He said prosecutors and FBI
agents had to make certain the con
gressmen “realized they were being
asked to participate in an illegal
activity, so that it wasn’t a sense that
they stumbled into something, or
that they thought they were going to
a ball game and they were really
going to a payoff meeting. ”
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Congress is
being urged to approve a preventa
tive measure to help keep fatal,
contagious African swine fever from
infecting hogs in the United States
and raising pork prices.
Rep. Paul Findley, R-Ill., sponsor
of the bill, which was approved by
the House Agriculture subcommit
tee, said Tuesday Congress must act
on it before the end of the current
session. The bill would require 35
states that do not ban feeding of gar
bage to swine to enforce strict rules
for cooking garbage to kill disease
organisms.
All 35 states have some rules, but
enforcement varies from state to
state.
“The threat is a clear and present
one,” Findley said.
The disease has spread in the
Russians still buying U. S. grains
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Soviet
Union is steadily buying as much
American grain as permitted under
President Carter’s partial grain
embargo to the Soviet Union.
Tuesday, for the second day in a
row, the Department of Agriculture
Department announced a sale of
300,000 tons of U.S. corn by private
exporters for undisclosed sums.
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On Monday, the department
announced a sale of 200,000 tons of
corn and 100.000 tons of wheat.
Over the past several weeks, the
Kremlin has purchased 3.16 million
tons of U. S. grain, for the year begin
ning Oct. 1, the fifth and final year of
the agreement.
Carter will permit sale of 8 million
tons for the upcoming 12-month
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Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Repub
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There is no vaccine and no treat
ment so it could cause widespread
hog deaths and higher consumer
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To satisfy concerns of New Jersey
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The subcommittee also approved
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historically black colleges and uni
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the U.S.-Russian grain agreement.
Even when Carter embargoed 17
million tons last Jan. 4, in retaliation
for the Russian invasion of Afghanis
tan, he honored the 8-million-ton
minimum of the agreement. The
Kremlin bought more than 7.9 mil
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