Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attorney Edward Bennett Williams insisted that Jacobsen had actually pocketed the $10,000 himself and then pinned a bum rap on Connally. Jacobsen did that, said Williams, "to extricate himself from his troubles" after he had been indicted in an unrelated savings and loan scandal. Indeed, prosecutors dropped seven fraud charges against Jacobsen after he agreed to plead guilty to one count of offering gratuities and said that he would testify against Connally. Earlier, Jacobsen had testified six times to four other investigative bodies that Connally had not taken money from...
Tuerkheimer's record is not flamboyant, but it is impressive. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York, he rose to become chief of the securities-fraud unit. He brought about 25 cases to court and lost only three. Tuerkheimer took three years off to teach law at the University of Wisconsin, then sent a resume to the Watergate special prosecutor. He was quickly snapped up and assigned 15 months ago to the "milk fund" investigation. His skilled performance led to his selection for the Connally trial...
...knew that "the facade is everything" when he told Victorian England "How to live well on nothing a year" in Vanity Fair. Alain Resnais's Stavisky, based on a real swindler who flourished in mid-30's Paris, is a man who understands this first principle of high class fraud, but the film derives most of its interest not from the ethics or mechanics of chicanery but from its recreation of the rogue's paradise of inter war Europe. To a certain extent, facades are as important to film-makers as they are to bankers, and Resnais's pastel facade...
Stavisky himself (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a two-bit swindler blown up to a Hindenburg of a con man, manipulating fake international corporations and floating fake bond issues. Stavisky thinks he's left his old world of petty fraud behind, and Resnais seems to agree with him, emphasizing the discontinuity between the pickpocket and the cosmopolitan "financier." Stavisky affects history in a way a pickpocket cannot, Resnais maintains; I'affaire Stavisky, when it's blasted out of the water, shakes the Popular Front Government of Leon Blum and forces the deportation of Leon Trotsky, who until then had enjoyed political...
Then the SEC filed a civil complaint against Heltzer, Hansen and Cross for falsifying company records; the men settled by signing a consent decree. A fed eral grand jury indicted 3M, Hansen and Cross on charges of tax fraud. That case is still pending. Unpaid taxes on the illegal contributions could cost 3M as much as $9 million...