21.   In an interview after the hearings, Ms. Kerner said she had not improperly divulged any information about the investigation to Ms. Hanson or any other officials.

22.   In fact, an FBI clerk was later fired for leaking confidential information about the ongoing investigation to a local Mafioso via her brother.

23.   In the worst-case scenario for Democrats, Starr could deliver his report on the investigation to Congress before the November elections, and Congress could start impeachment proceedings.

24.   It was clear again Friday that the Egyptian side was uncomfortable with the results of the investigation to date.

25.   It was not clear if the ethics panel had referred any of the accusations in the four-year investigation to law enforcement agencies.

26.   Jarvis, criticized last month for harsh comments comparing the NCAA to the Gestapo and its investigation to rape, gave a more tempered criticism Friday night.

27.   Justice officials said they could not compare the cost of the Microsoft investigation to other antitrust cases.

28.   Los Angeles Police Department detectives and officials of other police agencies involved in the investigation referred all calls concerning the highly secret organized crime investigation to the FBI.

29.   Mary Jo White, who made the announcement in her last week in office, said prosecutors had referred information developed during the investigation to the Senate Ethics Committee.

30.   Meanwhile, the House Ethics Committee has begun feeling the pressure to bring its investigation to some conclusion.