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...Executives admitted that the firm had violated the rules that prohibit any one bidder from buying more than 35% of a single issue at a Treasury auction, and that they had skirted regulations barring a firm from submitting bids in its customers' names without their authorization in order to conceal such illegal efforts to influence the market...
...front men to hide the real movers and shakers behind financial transactions. That could help explain why Middle Eastern investors allowed B.C.C.I. to use them as nominal owners -- or nominees -- when the bank secretly acquired control of Washington's First American Bankshares. Royal family members often use fronts to conceal the fact that they are donning the hats of businessmen...
...crazy guy. In June, police say, Hall took a day off, went to a bank in Queens and threatened to blow a teller's head off unless he handed over some cash. But as he fled the scene with $725, Hall dropped the Manila envelope he used to conceal a gun and a holdup note. The envelope was stamped with his employer's address, and although the address had been inked out, the FBI was able to track him down two weeks...
...arms sales to the Nicaraguan contras an unauthorized plot hatched by a small band of zealots in Ronald Reagan's National Security Council? Or did high-ranking members of the U.S. intelligence community not only learn about the scheme and do nothing to stop it, but unlawfully help to conceal it from Congress...
...families often take reported sightings seriously not only out of their desperate desire to believe but also because they do not accept the government's word as final. The Pentagon's bureaucratic bumbling, secretiveness and mixed signals have led some families to feel there is a conspiracy to conceal the truth. To try to dispel that fog, a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee will soon investigate whether there is truth in any of the sightings reports and why the Pentagon seems so unresponsive...