Word: defrauding
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...Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr., Democrat for President, running the metal detector over their bodies. "We'd prefer you didn't take pictures of the security operation," one guard says, and the request has no escape clause. "People are finally beginning to realize they won't be able to defraud us out of the election--we just don't know how desperate they're going to get," Laura Cohen, a campaign aide says in explanation...
Lance's son David was only 19 in September 1974, when Lance was running the Calhoun bank. But his father, the indictment says, "knowingly, willfully, and with intent to injure and defraud the bank" got him an unsecured loan of $45,000, which was "inadequately supported by credit information and collateral." A couple of months later, the indictment charges, LaBelle got a similar $45,000 loan. This was soon after Lance's $1 million gubernatorial campaign. Son David got a $34,530 loan from the bank the following year. Lance's financial statements at the time were...
Federal prosecutors charge that Estes was also involved in eight or ten other deals. But after negotiations with Estes and his lawyers, the Justice Department decided to let him plead guilty to a single count of conspiracy to defraud the Government, a blanket charge covering tax evasion and mail and wire fraud. He faces a $5,000 fine and up to five years in jail. Yet, through the same sort of sharp bargaining that made him his fortune, Estes is expected to be sent back to prison for only a couple of years at most...
...himself as "a man of modest means." But other Representatives object to disclosing their personal finances, even though the need for a strong code was underscored last week by the sentencing of former Democratic Representative Richard Hanna of California to jail for six to 30 months for conspiring to defraud the U.S. He was accused of accepting more than $200,000 from Rice Broker Tongsun Park as part of Park's effort to buy congressional support for South Korea...
According to the 99-page indictment filed against Holzer by New York Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz, she stole $824,820 from some of her investors in a variety of deals and issued false records "with intent to defraud." One example: an allegedly altered bank statement from a Chase Manhattan branch in Indonesia listed her balance as $10 million. In reality, her deposits at the time were less than...