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Large corporations working in California have reaped tens of millions of dollars in new federal stimulus funds, despite previous pollution violations, criminal probes, and allegations of fraud, a California Watch investigation has found.

An investigation of indictments against two key oil-industry players in connection with alleged bribery of Kazakstan authorities in the 1980s and 1990s. This CIR story by associate reporter Marlena Telvick reveals that the bribes were allegedly made on behalf of U.S. oil companies, including ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Amoco, now part of British Petroleum (BP), to Kazakstan's president and former prime minister. The three-year Justice Department investigation sheds new light on the business practices of U.S. oil companies abroad.