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SENTENCED. Albert Nipon, 57, dress manufacturer whose softly styled, femininely frilled designs have adorned screen stars, businesswomen and First Ladies Rosalynn Carter and Nancy Reagan; to three years in prison, after pleading guilty in federal court last February to charges of income tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud, involving the bribery of two Internal Revenue Service agents; in Philadelphia...
...largely from his New York real estate business. But in the glare of the Ferraro campaign, his financial dealings came under harsh scrutiny. Last week Zaccaro was arrested and ushered into Manhattan Criminal Court, where he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. An indictment accused Zaccaro of scheming to defraud during a deal in which he and a partner tried to buy five Queens apartment buildings. In a plea-bargaining arrangement, Zaccaro admitted to two specific allegations: that he had tampered with a copy of an appraisal and that he had kited his net worth to $21.6 million. He could...
Donovan and nine assorted co-defendants stood accused of grand larceny, as well as 125 counts of falsifying business documents and eleven counts of filing phony papers with government agencies. The purpose and end result, according to an indictment handed up by a Bronx grand jury, was to defraud the New York City Transit Authority of some $8 million on a $ 186 million subway contract awarded to New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. in 1978. At the time, Donovan was executive vice president and one of two controlling stockholders in the firm. He is the first Cabinet member ever...
...Harvard does not want to defraud the federal government," O'Brien adds emphatically...
...federal grand jury in Brooklyn handed down five, four of them involving Philadelphians. Two are Democratic Congressmen: Michael ("Ozzie") Myers and Raymond Lederer. The others: Philadelphia Councilman Louis Johanson, Attorney Howard Criden and Camden (N.J.) Mayor Angelo Errichetti. All are charged with conspiracy to commit bribery and defraud the U.S. They could receive prison terms of up to 25 years and fines of at least...