Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's re-election campaign in New Jersey and a director of International Controls Corp., which Vesco dominates, telephoned Mitchell, then Attorney General, to get U.S. Government help for Vesco. He had been jailed in Geneva on complaint of a former IOS sales manager, alleging improper business conduct, fraud and attempted embezzlement. Mitchell personally phoned the U.S. embassy in Berne. Vesco was released on bail the next...
...fees generally ranging from $2 to $30, these unscrupulous specialists urge their not-always-unwilling clients to inflate claims for property damage, write off the value of items lost in a robbery that never occurred, or deduct interest paid on nonexistent loans. Before his recent fraud conviction, one Texas expert encouraged clients who owned dogs or parakeets to classify themselves as farmers and claim depreciation allowances. In ghetto areas, where knowledge of tax law is skimpy, some hustlers get clients to sign a blank return for a flat sum of, say, $50. The preparer then fills out the form...
Gaudy. IRS agents in recent weeks have made a series of highly publicized arrests of tax specialists in New York, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama and Texas. So far, IRS investigations conducted mainly by agents or volunteers posing as clients have resulted in fraud convictions of 126 tax preparers and indictments of another 85. The refund mills under IRS scrutiny usually consist of one or two people who often set up shop in a storefront and earn up to $40,000 for three months' work...
...groups, in private homes and on the stage, performing his repertory of tricks and claiming to have psychokinetic powers. At first he was widely acclaimed; he came under suspicion when a group of psychologists and computer experts from Hebrew University duplicated all of his feats and called him a fraud. Eventually, Geller left the country in disgrace...
Otto Kerner, 64, was convicted ot bribery conspiracy, income tax evasion, mail fraud and perjury. He could receive a maximum sentence of 83 years in prison and a fine of $93,000. The verdict stemmed from a dubious race-track stock deal in which Kerner, while Governor, netted $140,000 in profits in exchange for helping a track owner obtain a longer season and permission to expand into harness racing. It represented the conviction not just of a politician...