investigation
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She said all business activity related to the nonprofit is part of the ongoing investigation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
The defendant was arrested in September in connection with the police investigation.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
DoorDash will pay $131.5 million to settle an investigation by New York City regulators into the company’s compliance with pay laws for food-delivery workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
They asked their supervisors to approve a new investigation and contemplated using undercover operatives to gather more evidence.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Nixon, Ehrlichman explained, was dissatisfied with the FBI’s investigation of Daniel Ellsberg.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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It took investigations, trials, discovery, all of the tools of modern litigation, to get documents, interview witnesses, to do the fact-building that exposed just how bad the industry had been behaving.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The probe echoes investigations into the deaths of actor Matthew Perry and rapper Mac Miller.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Polymarket laid the groundwork for an American app and negotiated with regulators to end the investigations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Sutherland said investigations continued to try and determine when the baby was placed beneath the floorboards.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
White realized that the greatest problem with the earlier investigations was not that agents had failed to uncover any leads; it was that there were too many.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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