Word: charboneau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprisingly, Feller's view is that two seasons are insufficient for comparison. "People are always wanting to know too soon what I think about a Willie Mays or a Joe Charboneau or a Mark Fidrych or a Dwight Gooden. Gooden seems like a hard worker, and he's off to a fine start. As far as I can tell, he's keeping his ducks in a row." By that, maybe he means Gooden doesn't brag much. "Only in the middle of 1946," Feller thinks back, "did I ever try to strike everybody out. I had a chance...
...source of the allegations is Daniel Charboneau, 52, a former Roman Catholic priest who arrived in Seoul in 1978 as a Bechtel employee and now teaches English at U.S. Army camps in South Korea. Charboneau says that he regularly cashed Bechtel checks at the local Bank of America branch and then handed the money to the company's Korean-American consultant, Yoon Sik Cho, 61. From Cho the money may have gone directly to South Korean officials, but the evidence remains circumstantial. Last week Charboneau, whose perusal of business records led him to suspect Cho of using the funds...
...Charboneau has made sure that Washington knows about the case. After being fired from Bechtel following a disagreement with Cho in November 1980, he suggested to IRS agents that Cho may have underreported his income and possibly violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. IRS investigators subsequently found that in 1979 Cho had not reported at least $34,000 in consultant's fees and had $146,000 in insufficiently documented business expenses. Cho, through his attorney, has said that he can account for all his income and expenses and has denied that he made any improper gifts or payments...
...Stapleton did all of those things, almost winning the Rookie of the Year award (which went to Cleveland's Super Joe Charboneau and his media machine) in the process, and a spot will have to made for him somewhere in the lineup. With the traffic jam of erstwhile designated hitters and ex-Angels at first base, the keystone sack is the obvious choice...
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