Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nikes sit, discarded, beside the organ bench, his bag slumped in one of the empty pews of Appleton Chapel, the cozy inner sanctum of Memorial Church. Playing the organ, Danny Forger '99 is hidden behind a bank of silver pipes that range from the size of a pencil to a baseball...
...Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg will need to pinch pennies. They have seen the value of the estate they inherited two years ago jump as much as two-thirds in four days, with the auction producing something for them that their mother's will did not: millions in ready cash. Alexander Forger, a lawyer and co-executor, told the Washington Post that the value of the Jackie O. estate was $45 million to $50 million before the auction. But most of that was in trusts that must give their income to charity and the principal, eventually, to Jackie's grandchildren...
...BEGELMAN, 73, film producer; of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles. Though Begelman was president of Columbia Pictures during a flush period in the '70s (his tenure produced hits like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Shampoo), he risked it all by becoming a check forger. Yet such was Hollywood's awe of his golden touch that Begelman's career barely suffered when his larceny was revealed. His most recent venture, Gladden Entertainment, went bankrupt last year, and Begelman was reported to be deeply depressed by the failure--a transgression, after all, that his peers take...
...Treasury Department, meanwhile, counter- counterfeitin g teams are testing new dollar designs. The portraits of historical figures might be slightly enlarged and moved off center; watermarks might be added. Since 1990, polyester fibers have been imbedded in dollar bills so that when a bill is copied by a forger, the note's image is slightly marred. Now the Treasury plans to place those threads in one spot on all dollar bills to make it more easily detected. With counterfeiting a cottage industry around the globe, the American currency is likely to require a growing staff of tinkerers...
There are plenty of ways to defeat the desktop forger. The Standard Register company in Dayton, for example, sells a complete line of aids, from artificial watermarks that can be seen from an angle but are invisible to document scanners, to specially treated paper stock that, when tampered with, displays the word VOID in English, Spanish and Latin. But the counterfeiters do not seem daunted. A man in Boston used computer-faked checks and purchase orders to buy computer equipment. A couple in Phoenix made the rounds of the local liquor stores and check-cashing agencies with phony paychecks stamped...