Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fraud upon the State." The chief practical safeguard is that most Mexican divorces have the consent of both husband and wife, and few people back out later. But when third parties-disinherited children, later spouses, pension fund administrators-have an interest in the case, they may have grounds for successful court attacks...
...really live-has power to end marriages. State courts may question whether Mexico has jurisdiction to grant a valid divorce to people with their return plane reservations in their pockets. Thus, many lawyers would agree with California's Judge Roger Alton Pfaff: "A Mexican divorce is really a fraud upon the state where the parties are domiciled...
Hopinq for Fraud. In its efforts to restore investor confidence in the Street's brokerage houses, the New York Stock Exchange had set up a $12 million fund to pay off Haupt's customers and liquidate the firm. The cost to the Exchange now seems likely to come to only $9,000,000. Many members of the Exchange grumble at the money they are to be assessed to pay off Haupt's customers, and hope that in some way Haupt will eventually be found guilty of fraud; insurance companies would then have to pay off on bonds...
...case involving outright fraud, which is not so far involved in the Haupt case, the Exchange in 1960 reimbursed $797000 to customers of Boston's DuPont-Homsey...
...resign in 1958 over a scandal involving the FCC award of Miami's Channel 10 to National Airlines (Senate investigators charged that he had taken "loans" from National's lawyer), after which his longtime alcoholism reached the point where he was unable to stand trial for fraud, lived his last years in and out of hospitals and on handouts; in Miami, where police found his body in a Skid Row room five to eight days after death, presumably of cirrhosis of the liver...