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...unidentified man posing as a former Harvard student, who may have duped a Harvard tutor into giving him money last week, apparently tried yesterday to con money from a dean at the University of Denver...
...Nashville shopping mall was an odd place for the skein of corruption scandals that have ensnarled New York City and Chicago to begin unraveling. But that was where police picked up Michael Burnett, a corpulent ex-con, swindler and murder suspect who was to provide important evidence in corruption investigations in both cities. Burnett, police said later, had stopped at the mall to make last-minute preparations for a burglary. Inside his van, officers found a submachine gun, ammunition and an automatic pistol...
...arrest, in July 1984, came just six months after Burnett's parole from a federal prison on charges of currency manipulation and possession of stolen stocks, and the con man seemed a sure bet for a return stretch. But he was no run-of-the-mill criminal. For 30 years Burnett had negotiated light sentences for fraud and other crimes by informing for the FBI. Now he again offered to trade, telling the FBI that while working for Systematic Recovery Service, a collection agency trying to secure municipal contracts in New York and Chicago, he had stumbled into widespread political...
WITH THE POSSIBLE exception of Attorney General Edwin Meese III, New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch more than any other American politician has openly advocated tougher penalties for violent crime. On this issue, Democrat Koch falls for the unconvincing Neo-Con attacks on the criminal justice system...
...policy continues to crumble, conservatives are now scrambling to find a way to justify their clear lack of moral resolve on U.S. policy on South Africa. The latest alternative to sanctions, if a major article in the current issue of The National Interest and stirrings elsewhere on the neo-con front are any indication, is disengagement. This policy, according to author Robert B. Shepard, would proclaim total neutrality and would recognize whatever government remains in power after any expected uprising...