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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 — Tens of thousands of pieces of mail come into the huge Immigration and Naturalization Service data processing center in Laguna Niguel, Calif., every day, and as at so many government agencies, it tends to pile up. One manager there had a system to get rid of the vexing backlog, federal officials say. This week the manager was charged with illegally shredding as many as 90,000 documents Among the destroyed papers, federal officials charged, were American and foreign passports, applications for asylum, birth certificates and other documents supporting applications for citizenship, visas and work permits. The...

House Asks Global Crossing for Details on Shredding Thu Jul 18, 7:15 PM ET By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee said on Thursday it has demanded information related to allegations that bankrupt telecommunications firm Global Crossing Ltd. shredded key documents. The company has admitted that some documents have been shredded in several of its offices, but denied the documents were related to accounting practices and other issues under investigation by securities regulators. The panel has been investigating certain contemporaneous swaps of capacity that were done during the first six months of 2001 by...

DOJ Probing Global Crossing Shredding Wed Jul 3, 3:04 PM ET By Siobhan Kennedy NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S Justice Department, already investigating claims of improper accounting at Global Crossing Ltd. , is now probing claims of document shredding there, the bankrupt telecoms company said on Wednesday. Global Crossing said the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles notified it that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun investigating the shredding allegations, which first surfaced in court documents late last month. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney declined to comment on the probe. The allegations came from a current Global Crossing...

CHP Undertakes Investigation SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Reports of document shredding at the California Department of Information Technology prompted a California Highway Patrol investigation and the seizure of a large trash receptacle by Department of Justice agents, adding new intrigue to a growing Capitol scandal over a software contract with the Oracle Corp. The growing scandal prompted Republican calls for the U.S. Attorney's Office to step in. They want an investigation into a six-year, $95 million software contract with Oracle. A state auditor said that the contract could cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Republicans turned up the heat, accusing Gov....

<p>California Highway Patrol officers secured the state offices of the state Department of Information Technology Thursday to prevent removal or shredding of documents related to the unfolding Oracle computer investigation.</p> <p>CHP Commissioner Spike Helmick said at 12:30 p.m. that representatives of the state attorney general’s office were on their way to the offices.</p>