Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years as boss of Chicago's Democratic machine, Mayor Richard Daley has seldom been so troubled. His most illustrious protégé, former Governor and now Federal Judge Otto Kerner, has been convicted of bribery, conspiracy, income tax evasion, mail fraud and perjury (TIME, March 5). Possibly even more damaging to the machine, one of Daley's oldest political associates, Edward Barrett, was recently convicted of bribery, mail fraud and tax evasion. Since 1955 Barrett had been Cook County clerk, an influential office that carries rich patronage powers. The clerk's office does everything from dispensing...
...public has learned of a second ITT scandal--involving that corporation's attempt to give the Central Intelligence Agency $1 million to overthrow the government of Chile--and a $200,000 Nixon campaign gift (subsequently returned) from Robert Vesco, a financier currently indicted in a $224 million securities fraud case. Last week two important developments underscored the Watergate case's importance...
...Barbie as a pseudonym; he also has a birth certificate in that name and has received mail from the Barbie family in Germany. But he is a Bolivian citizen who claims that he has broken no Bolivian law. The French argue, however, that the fugitive acquired Bolivian citizenship by fraud and that despite the lack of an extradition treaty, Bolivia must honor its World War II pledges of joint Allied action against war criminals. There is yet another possibility: Bolivia has an extradition treaty with Peru, which wants Altmann for gold smuggling, and Peru has an extradition treaty with France...
...stone walls. Clifford was sentenced to 2½ years in the Lewisburg, Pa., federal prison last August; he has since been transferred to the Danbury (Conn.) prison, after alcohol was found in his possession. Last week in Zurich, a three-judge Swiss court sentenced Edith to two years for fraud and forgery, including signing "H.R. Hughes" to three checks totaling $650,000. She complained that "this joke of the century destroyed Cliff's and my career." They, Edith claimed, face debts and legal claims of $750,000, with the IRS ready to add another $500,000 in back taxes...
...March 2 article, you quote Lt. Col. Anthony Herbert claiming that the recent Sixty Minutes piece on him was a fraud: "The unedited tapes would show something vastly different than what appeared on television." Herbert also "claimed that CBS producer Barry Lando had tried to convince soldiers who supported Herbert to change their stories...