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Starobin says she knew it was time to take legal action after a low moment in a shopping mall. While signing for a credit card purchase, the salesperson told that her handwriting looked as messy as a doctor’s. Starobin explained that she was a doctor, a doctor of literature, and also an author. The amiable clerk asked if any of her work was published, which led to a discussion of King’s pilfering of her vampire plot...
...rarefied world of private banking. Set yourself up in a Caribbean or Alpine tax haven, and you are in league with the superrich--with Marc Rich!--who cloak their identities and shield their assets from prying governments. With your shell company as host of a nameless Visa or Amex card, you are trading stocks, purchasing cars, paying bills and getting cash from ATMS--and leaving no trail. You are thumbing your nose at grasping creditors, ex-spouses, plaintiff's lawyers and tax collectors. And these days, you are screwed...
...just got a federal court in San Francisco to compel Visa International to disgorge credit-card records of U.S. citizens in 30 cash coves such as Bermuda and the Caymans. It will likely try to identify the cardholders through U.S. merchants where the cards were used. The agency, which earlier secured access to the logs of MasterCard and American Express, is looking for buried treasure overseas--an estimated $70 billion in unpaid taxes. The theory is that much more of it has flowed offshore in recent years, oiled by Internet technology and emboldened by a popular view that...
...tell TIME that federal prosecutors haven't pressured the alleged terrorist, who is now behind bars in Alexandria, Va., to find out what he knows about the Sept. 11 terror plot. Capital punishment is often used as a threat to extract information, but the government has not played that card since charging Moussaoui in December, the sources say. "They know there are others out there who were involved in planning the attacks and that they haven't solved this case," says a lawyer. "They should be talking to this guy." A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment. To be sure...
...appalled to read Faisal Chaudry’s racist op-ed in which he calls Israel’s control over the West Bank and Gaza Strip a “racist colonial occupation.” He also tries to play the race card by describing “white Israeli soldiers destroy[ing] refugee camps of the brown people they have dispossessed for decades.” He seems to forget that hundreds of thousands of Jewish Israelis are from Ethiopian and Arab nations. To reduce the Mideast conflict to racism shows a lack of understanding...