Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violations of the Government's six-year-old, two-tier price structure for domestic crude. This sets a low rate (now an average $5.65 per bbl.) for "old" oil already in production and, as an incentive for more exploration, a higher price (now $12.53) for "new" finds. The fraud involves false certification and sale of the cheaper "old" oil as expensive "new," an easy matter of fixing papers to hide origins, since all the crude looks the same...
...Massachusetts as Governor for a term and was four times sent to the U.S. House of Representatives. But he was mayor of Boston ("Mayor of the Poor," he was called) for a full 16 years, four terms, the last of which was partly spent in jail on a mail-fraud conviction. Hizzoner continued to draw his salary while behind bars, gracefully donating it to other Boston prisoners...
William F. Buckley Jr., the conservative columnist, editor, spy novelist and talk-show Torquemada, strikes an all wise posture when lecturing Presidents, diplomats and others on their ethical responsibilities. But last week, on the firing line himself in a civil fraud case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Buckley found himself pleading, of all things, ignorance...
...reported this week that Clifford acted as a straw in a real estate purchase for a rust that included George S. Davis, who was convicted last year of insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit arson...
...Faeries, Fraud...