Word: counterfeiting
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...Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa of Detroit, who vanished without a trace in 1975 after pledging to boot his Mob sponsors out of the union. At the time, the family was emerging as a global trader of sorts, in one case allegedly trying to pass $950 million in counterfeit and stolen securities to the Vatican's bank in Rome. In a recent operation, the family shipped counterfeit watches, wallets and clothing from Hong Kong to Florida...
...That counterfeit case, which is pending in two state courts, may be the most elaborate and costly example yet of a new form of fraud: desktop forgery. Using the methods of desktop publishing -- the technology by which professional-looking publications are prepared on inexpensive personal computers -- desktop forgers can cheaply and easily create official documents that are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing...
...round of serial adulteries and petty larcenies, then hours of whetting his dart skills at the Black Cross. A typical business transaction includes stealing a shipment of perfume and, when finding out that it is mostly water, unloading the stuff on a store owner who pays him with counterfeit bills. Talent then uses the forgeries to buy vodka that turns out to be the nonperfume he stole in the morning...
...bull has tossed him. Peters plays -- but you knew this, didn't you? -- a gorgeous, daffy bail jumper. She isn't really a villain, of course. Her dopey husband is involved with a crew of gun-fondling white supremacists, and they need to hide $250,000 in counterfeit bills, which he stows under the folded-up top of his pink 1959 Cadillac convertible...
Afterward, Carter accused Noriega of "thievery" and said election tabulations he examined were "patently counterfeit." He called Noriega "amoral...