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Of course, any punishment the Mitchell commission or the IOC hands down would be very small potatoes compared to federal penalties. The Justice Department is now looking into possible extortion and tax and wire fraud by Salt Lake City Olympic Committee officials. Making a federal case out of the scandal...
While government officials across the country publicly embrace tax-abatement programs like Louisiana's, the employees involved in the actual administration of them are often quietly critical. In Louisiana, as in other states, TIME encountered those outraged by the escalating handouts but fearful of losing their jobs and powerless to...
From the preliminary evidence presented in the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust suit against Microsoft and Bill Gates (involving the company's attempts to buy off Netscape, its chief rival in the Internet browser field) [BUSINESS, Nov. 2], it would appear that Microsoft has taken a page out of the...
The source of the coke was allegedly the Pagans, who refer to themselves as the One Percenters because they claim to represent an elite--the truly bad. Like the Amish, they wear black and stick to a preferred mode of transportation: Harley-Davidsons. Unlike the Amish, they rely on beatings...
SEATTLE: Some advice for budding novelists: Don?t write to the world?s richest man and threaten his life. That?s what office worker and aspiring writer Adam Quinn Pletcher did, and it cost him $250,000 and a possible 20 years in prison after he was found guilty on...