11.   A separate criminal inquiry is continuing.

12.   After she went public with her charges, three other women made accusations to Army investigators during a three-month criminal inquiry.

13.   After it concludes its fact-finding, the commission can recommend reforms to Congress or refer cases to the Justice Department, which could pursue a criminal inquiry if warranted.

14.   But law enforcement officials said that the criminal inquiry led into a succession of dead ends.

15.   But the court declined to adopt the argument by Starr that that exception to the privilege should be expanded to include criminal inquiries.

16.   But the end of the criminal inquiry into his finances on Friday left even Republicans conceding that he will be enormously difficult to unseat in November.

17.   But the end of the criminal inquiry into his finances on Thursday left even Republicans conceding that he will be enormously difficult to unseat in November.

18.   But the Senate investigation, and a parallel criminal inquiry, is likely to focus even more on whether foreign contributors benefited when policy decisions were made.

19.   Federal prosecutors ended a criminal inquiry in November without charging the firm.

20.   For most prosecutors, the dismissal of a civil lawsuit would be meaningless for a criminal inquiry into perjury, obstruction or witness tampering.