Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Massachusetts Secretary of State Paul H. Guzzi '64 yesterday ordered Bill Dillon and Co., an investment firm run by Harvard undergraduates, to halt all further business in the Commonwealth pending possible charges of fraud and other business irregularities...
...federal examiners called the irregularities "unsafe and unsound" banking practices. For failing to disclose them to stockholders, the examiners accused Lance and the banks of "fraud and deceit." Lance and the banks admitted no wrongdoing. Indeed, Lance in the past has blamed part of his troubles on "careless, erroneous or biased reporting" by the press. But he and the banks signed a consent decree, promising not to commit these kinds of questionable acts in the future. The decree bars Lance from ever again bouncing a check except in an "isolated and inadvertent" case. In addition, Lance agreed to give...
Still, Marcos was unhappy, not so much over the returns but because of events surrounding them. Laban followers protested noisily about election fraud, while many others were angry over the government's claims of total victory. At a Malacañang Palace press conference with visiting foreign journalists last week, he accused reporters of egging on the Labanites. He has also charged unnamed Western organizations and the CIA with "meddling" in the 45-day campaign. Marcos even blamed himself for having relaxed martial law and restrained his police. Affecting a kind of no-more-Mr.-Nice-Guy grimness...
...South Korean rice broker and Georgetown party host, provided the details of how he gave 31 past and present Congressmen, two congressional candidates and President Nixon's re-election committee upward of $850,000 in gifts and "campaign contributions." Indicted last September on 36 counts including mail fraud, failure to register as a foreign agent and bribery, Park testified with immunity from prosecution and claimed: "What I have done in Washington constitutes an American success story, on a small scale...
...federal agency has been the butt of such angry cannonades as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The CFTC, formed in 1975 to police the trading of commodity futures following widespread charges of price fixing, fraud and manipulation of customers' accounts, deserves a lot of criticism. As a notorious example, it took the commission almost a year to discover that "James Carr," who is alleged to have bilked customers of perhaps $25 million by selling bogus option contracts, was actually an escaped convict named Alan Abrahams...