Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of the books conclusively answers the lingering Watergate question: How could so many clever men around Nixon profess to believe him long after most of the press and public found his story incredible and his claims of protecting the presidency a self-serving fraud? Breslin, perhaps unfairly, contends that Texan Charles Alan Wright, Nixon's constitutional expert, simply learned too late that "when the client is a liar and you believe him, he takes you down with him." Osborne doubts that Nixon's third lawyer, St. Clair, was ever as naive about the President's guilt...
Federal authorities, anxious to minimize any prejudicial publicity, have so far not revealed their theory of the crime's motive. The signs seem to point to old-fashioned insurance fraud. Moeller bought Sponge Rubber Products' manufacturing operations and inventories last year from the B.F. Goodrich Co., which had found the company's profits unacceptably low. Shortly thereafter, he lost a $5 million Sears, Roebuck account after jacking up prices too abruptly, then lost more business after severely tightening credit terms for customers. A day after Moeller's arrest, Sponge Rubber Products' attorneys filed an insurance...
...Treasury under Richard Nixon and a multimillionaire-had accepted a relatively modest $10,000 gratuity from Associated Milk Producers, Inc., for urging Nixon to boost federal milk price supports in 1971. To back up that charge, the Government relied on testimony by Attorney Jake Jacobsen. When seven charges of fraud against him in a Texas savings and loan scandal were dropped, he had agreed to testify against Connally and to plead guilty to one count of offering a gratuity to a public official...
...Associated Milk Producers, who said he gave Connally $10,000 in 1972 in exchange for Connally's support for raising the floor on milk prices. But Jacobsen had only agreed to testify against Connally when prosecutors offered to drop several more serious charges against him in an unrelated bank fraud case. The prosecution had no one to directly corroborate Jacobsen's story--he and Connally were alone when the money changed hands, Jacobsen said...
...most recently managing director of The Israel Corp., a firm created with the encouragement of the state to channel investments into the nation's industry and its tourist business. Last week, however, after six months of investigation, a district court in Tel Aviv indicted Tzur on charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust. The accusations are the latest developments in a complex contretemps that involves, besides the state of Israel, a Baron de Rothschild, a shady Swiss bank with a record of ties to the Mafia, secret Liechtenstein trust accounts, a hero of the World War II Hungarian...