Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Markowitz, now 35, publicly admitted last week that the shelters were part of a colossal sham that authorities called "the largest tax-fraud case ever prosecuted." In a federal district court in Manhattan, he pleaded guilty to conducting a scheme that enabled about 200 taxpayers to take illegal income tax deductions amounting to more than $445 million. Allen, Cavett and the other celebrities who participated in the shelters were named as unwitting victims of the fraud...
...month. Bevill, Bresler & Schulman Asset Management, a small New Jersey-based firm, filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 after admitting that it could not meet some $140 million in debts to its customers, including about 45 savings and loan associations. The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Bevill, Bresler for fraud, charging that the firm secretly drained its customers' investments to make up for heavy trading losses. The failure comes in the wake of last month's $317 million collapse of Fort Lauderdale's E.S.M. Government Securities, which provided the spark for Ohio's savings and loan crisis...
...church was founded in South Korea in 1954 and now claims 3 million followers worldwide, a figure that some outside researchers consider inflated. The propaganda program has been taking place while Moon, 65, is serving an 18-month term in the Danbury, Conn., federal prison for income tax fraud; he is due for release...
...unexpected measure of support for Duarte from the 46,000-member Salvadoran armed forces. As ballot boxes began to arrive at election headquarters in the capital of San Salvador, right- wingers led by D'Aubuisson charged that the military had conspired with the Christian Democrats to perpetrate an electoral fraud. The protest stalled official vote counting pending a ruling by the Central Election Council, a three-man body dominated by conservatives. Fears arose that the election might be invalidated...
...their constitutional commitment." With Vides Casanova as he spoke were 15 other top-ranking officers, the cream of the country's military and security hierarchy. Said Vides Casanova: "If somebody is trying to destabilize the elections, I'm sure they're not going to succeed." Five hours later the fraud protest was rejected...