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NYT BLOCKBUSTER: STARR LEAVING, BUT HIS OFFICE IS SAID TO INTENSIFY INQUIRIES According to publishing sources, the NEW YORK TIMES will report in Saturday editions that "lawyers involved with the [Office of the Indepenent Counsel] inquiry said Friday that the office has intensified its investigation into matters that could still prove difficult for the White House." TIMES scribes David Johnson and Don Van Natta reveal that in recent weeks the Kathleen Willey and travel office inquiries have heated up -- a trend that has been "accompanied by a change in leadership at the independent counsel's office." In fact, newly appointed Independent Counsel Robert Ray, 39, has a history of investigating racketeering -- a prosecutorial background that is being read as a bad sign by White House observers hoping that the multiple Clinton investigations by the OIC will be completed with only a written report, and no indictments. Particulary hot now is the Kathleen Willey investigation into whether real estate tycoon and Clinton supporter Nathan Landow attempted interfere with Willey's pending testimony in the Paula Jones lawsuit. Van Natta and Johnston write: "Prosecutors from the independent counsel's office have subpoenaed several associates of Landow to testify before a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., away from the media glare of the District of Columbia federal courthouse, said one lawyer with knowledge of the activity. Moreover, agents from the FBI assigned to the independent counsel's office have recently subpoenaed Landow's telephone logs and business records in what appears to be an effort to find a connection between him and White House aides, the lawyer said." On the travel office front, prosecutors have stepped up their interest into whether anyone at the White House misled investigators as to whom directed the firing of the travel office workers. Developing hot... drudgereport.com