The commission asked a federal judge to order him to appear before commission investigators.

"These youths sang songs and a general party atmosphere prevailed," a commission investigator wrote.

Sometime after her testimony, a commission investigator went to her house and looked at her court calendar.

But commission investigators said it was more than $150,000 in the 1985 municipal elections alone.

Most of the owners characterized commission investigators as incompetent.

According to the staff veterans, the review group reached the opposite conclusion in a matter of weeks by going over the commission investigators' files.

Mr. Carroll, the commission investigator, said it recorded another officer saying he would kill anyone who informed on him.

When Barry Brown got there, he found two commission investigators as well.

"They locked us in an oven, then beat us with electric cords," he told commission investigators.

But the logic board itself, in the words of one commission investigator, "went brain dead" from the initial voltage surge.