JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON EXAMINING THE INTERESTS FOR ALLEGED FALSE CLAIMS IN SHIP- OCTOBER 1, 1984 Serial No. J-98-144 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary and the Joint Economic 43-892 O U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1985 SUBCOMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE PAUL LAXALT, Nevada ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania HOWELL HEFLIN, Alabama MAX BAUCUS, Montana LYNDA L. NERSESIAN, Chief Counsel and Staff Director JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE [Created pursuant to sec. 5(a) of Public Law 304, 79th Congress] SENATE ROGER W. JEPSEN, Iowa, Chairman WILLIAM V. ROTH, JR., Delaware JAMES ABDNOR, South Dakota STEVEN D. SYMMS, Idaho ALFONSE M. D'AMATO, New York HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES LEE H. HAMILTON, Indiana, Vice Chairman PARREN J. MITCHELL, Maryland DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin JAMES H. SCHEUER, New York DAN C. ROBERTS, Executive Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE, FINANCE, AND SECURITY ECONOMICS STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS Grassley, Hon. Charles E., a U.S. Senator from the State of Iowa. CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES Trott, S. Stephen, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S., De- Proxmire, Hon. William, a U.S. Senator from the State of Wisconsin ALPHABETICAL LIST AND MATERIAL SUBMITTED To Stephen S. Trott, August 9, 1984 From Stephen S. Trott, September 7, 1984. To Stephen S. Trott, also signed by Senator William Proxmire, Sep- Investigations of alleged false shipbuilding claims.. Chronology of Newport News investigation....... Memoranda from Richard Ehlke, Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress, September 18, 1984. In re Grand Jury Impaneled, October 2, 1978, U.S. District Court, District Review and recommendation to continue investigation of Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., to Chief, Fraud Section Criminal Division from Office of Economic Crime Enforcement Criminal Division, August, Critique of the Fraud Section memo on the Newport News shipbuilding investigation to D. Lowell Jensen, Assistant Attorney General Criminal Division from Elsie L. Munsell U.S. attorney, eastern district of Virgin- Investigation of Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.-work plan Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Investigation Chronology Status report re Investigation of Newport News Shipbuilding claims for equitable adjustments prepared by the U.S. attorney's office, eastern |