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...University police yesterday warned undergraduates that a group of youths, representing a bogus company, had solicited freshmen both Wednesday and yesterday to buy magazine subscriptions...
Jackson was finally rearrested three weeks ago after he had spent a part of his bogus fortune. "Actually, the bills he turned out were pretty good," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Thor Anderson in appreciation of the artistry. "The major failure was that the paper he had to work with just wasn't suited for a really good counterfeit...
...America was a rapidly growing conglomerate of financial services with a dazzling record of insurance sales. By last week, Equity and its largest insurance subsidiary were the center of one of the biggest business scandals in history, an unsavory mess that includes charges of false bookkeeping, large numbers of bogus insurance policies and the dumping of huge blocks of soon-to-be-worthless stock by company officers and other investors on the basis of inside information...
...secret government investigation of 20 major companies not long ago uncovered information long familiar to other expense-account societies: anywhere from one-fifth to four-fifths of all entertainment expenditures are bogus. One hard-drinking salesman spent $3,000 a month at 38 different bars; investigators found that he usually drank alone. An executive put his daughter's wedding-bridal kimono, banquet, honeymoon and all-on his expense account. In fact, it is common practice in Japan to phone a friend at another company and ask permission to use his name for some fictitious entertainment. "I have done...
...play is highly exhilarating, with two excruciatingly funny sequences. In one of them, Hero cons a board of professors into giving him his doctorate after an absurd display of bogus scholarship. One dotty, dozing old Dickensian expert confuses every fifth or sixth line of dialogue with the title of a Dickens novel, which is fairly hilarious all by itself. Another laugh-bulging scene is a Madison Avenue group-think probe, complete with gestures à la charades, as to why a cleaning company's detergent spray produces mud when a housewife uses...