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They weren't the kind of deposit one slips through the slot at the ATM. According to the New York Times, Russian mobsters are thought to have laundered billions of dollars through an old-line American financial institution, the Bank of New York. Investigators, tipped off by British authorities, spotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oodles of Rubles Turn Into Billions of Bucks | 8/19/1999 | See Source »

RELEASED. AUTUMN JACKSON, 24, alleged extortioner of Bill Cosby, who Jackson said was her father (a claim Cosby denied); from federal prison; in Dublin, Calif. An appeals court overturned her 1997 conviction, saying the judge had not explained the extortion law adequately to the jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 21, 1999 | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

Cambridge resident Skip Schloming, a member of the Small Property Owners Association (SPOA), describes the bill as one that would "stop extortion by tenants."

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Does Senate Bill 541 take away tenants' rights to a day in court or prevent landlords from being cheated? | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

Cambridge resident Skip Schloming, a member of the Small Property Owners Association (SPOA), describes the bill as one that would "stop extortion by tenants."

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: LANDLORDS VERSUS TENANTS | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

After the instinct to lament passed, the instinct to point fingers took over. "We revolt at being associated with them," Leavitt said of a Salt Lake bid committee that had, in the years preceding the International Olympic Committee's vote on the 2002 site, crossed the palms of I.O.C. members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The Olympics Were Bought | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

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