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...1980s and '90s, as traders developed increasingly sophisticated investment vehicles, the cons cropped up with increasing regularity. In 1985, a San Diego currency trader named David Dominelli was revealed to have fleeced more than 1,000 investors to the tune of $80 million. During the 1990s, a Florida church called Greater Ministries International bilked nearly 20,000 people out of $500 million in a pyramid scheme hatched by leader Gerald Payne, who claimed God would double the money of pious investors. (Dominelli pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, while Payne was convicted and sentenced...
...says her only complaint was minor. “The quality of teaching was not the same,” she says. Though not having access to the Harvard library system for her research was a challenge, she says that sitting at meetings of high-ranking government and church officials conveniently worked out.Finally back at Harvard, Peisker is completing her requirements while putting her thesis to paper. And she says the benefits of going abroad were not purely academic. Ealier this month, Peisker, who was raised Protestant, was confirmed at a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Jamaica Plain, Boston...
Students packing for home or finishing final papers today at 3:50 p.m. may ask for whom—or what—they hear the bells in Harvard Square toll. They toll for environmental awareness. The Harvard Square Clergy Association is organizing a group of churches to ring their bells 350 times at 3:50 p.m. today—the 350th day of the year—in order to raise awareness for Project 350, an environmental activism movement that aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to the “sustainable level” of 350 parts...
...loved Mafia iconography and liked being known as a tough guy. When he watched the Sopranos, it was "like he was going to church," said one of his five wives, with whom he had an autistic son named after a character in The Godfather. He used the score from that film as the hold music on his office phone. Pellicano often brandished a baseball...
...Ironically, Pellicano was often hired by the government to analyze and improve the quality of taped recordings. In one notable case, he enhanced a decades-old recording on which a Ku Klux Klansman incriminated himself in the bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama church that killed four girls...