Called a criminal referral, it was also made available to prosecutors at the Southern District.

By the fall, however, the agency had produced a second Madison-related request, called a "criminal referral."

For unloaded firearms, fines are $1,500 to $3,000, plus criminal referral.

Then regulators filed thousands of criminal referrals that translated into over a thousand felony convictions.

"They were all over us like sweat until I mentioned the criminal referral," he said.

When did you first learn of the criminal referral?

The cases are criminal referrals to the Justice Department.

Mr. Clinton was not a target of the criminal referral but was listed as a witness.

In particular, most of the discussion concerned what people in the Administration knew about a request for an investigation known as a criminal referral.

After that initial criminal referral was denied, investigators made a second request, on Oct. 8, 1993.