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Authorities seize "Carr's " Bermuda cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Con Man's End | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

Carr was arrested in Boston on charges that he had failed to obey an order by a Michigan federal court to cease violating securities laws. After Carr was released on $100,000 bail, authorities believe, he fled to Bermuda or the Cayman islands. An FBI fingerprint check revealed that "James Carr" was really one Alan Abrahams, an escaped convict with a 22-year criminal record, who in 1974 had fled a New Jersey prison farm, where he was serving a sentence for a commodities scam. Officials say that Lloyd, Carr may have swindled investors out of as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Options Scam In Boston | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...other firms. Indeed, investigators wonder whether the firm ever made any of the options purchases that it claimed to. Two of the three London-licensed traders that Lloyd, Carr supposedly used as brokers deny ever having had dealings with the firm; the third, based in Bermuda, turns out to be owned by Carr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Options Scam In Boston | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...Presbyterian Evangelist Leigh ton Ford, will meet in Bermuda in mid-January to set the time and place for a 1980 strategy conference to follow up the 1974 Evangelical congress in Lausanne, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to that Oldtime Religion | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

America has been saturated in recent years by tales of the paranormal and claims of the pseudo scientists. The list seems endless: Uri Geller, the Bermuda Triangle, E.S.P., levitation, Jeane Dixon, Kirlian photography, the Loch Ness monster, psychic surgery, Immanuel Velikovsky, thinking ivy plants and now-again -flying saucers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Attacking the New Nonsense | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

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