Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case might have surprised even Benjamin Franklin, who said that "in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."Last week nine-year-old Carmin Fisher of Junction City, Ore., found out that the Internal Revenue Service had seized the $70.76 in her account at a local bank. Her grandmother Bettye Fisher received a bank statement indicating that the IRS had taken the girl's money as partial payment for a delinquent tax bill of $21,182 owed by her grandfather Charles Fisher. Since the age of two, Carmin had been putting pennies into a coffee can labeled with...
...publicized the story, area residents collected enough pennies to refill her can and then some. But the same day, the IRS returned the money, saying the seizure was a mistake, probably caused by the agency's assumption that the grandmother, who was listed as Carmin's guardian, held the account. "The IRS is satisfied that money does not belong to the taxpayer that owes the Government money," said an agency spokesman. Carmin, meanwhile, celebrated the news, and escaped the summer heat, by frolicking in the cool spray of a garden hose...
...court then got down to business. For three hours a clerk spelled out the charges in daunting detail. They told of systematic safety violations, inept supervision and deliberate departures from plant operating rules in an effort to coax more electricity from the nuclear-fired generators. One account accused the defendants of failing to notify those living near the plant of high radiation until 36 hours after the accident. Murmurs rippled through the audience when the document charged Anatoly Dyatlov, 57, deputy chief engineer at the time of the accident, with sending four workers to check the reactor hours after...
...Marcos apparently sought out Hirschfeld because of the attorney's relationship with Mohammed al-Fassi, a client and wealthy Saudi businessman. Marcos wanted al-Fassi to loan him $18 million for weapons purchases. The loan would be secured by Marcos' hidden gold and a lien on his Swiss bank account...
...Turow's good fortune cannot be written off entirely to luck. Although a beginning novelist, he is a published writer; his One L, an account of his first year at Harvard Law School, received admiring attention when it appeared in 1977. In addition, Turow's legal training and experience as a prosecutor have honed some skills useful to lawyers and storytellers alike: an eye for significant details, an ear for how people talk and what they may actually mean when under pressure. Presumed Innocent has not stumbled into success. It is a clever, carefully prepared plea for popular attention...