Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Theft. Fraud. Breaking Parole. Using Aliases. Impersonation. Forgery. James Arthur Hogue Appears To Have Made...
PRESS: Freud, Fun and Fraud...
Sentencing consultants are poised to be the quintessential post-'80s growth industry. Paul Bilzerian, nabbed for securities fraud and tax evasion, hired one to help him reduce a four-year prison sentence by performing community service at a boys' club. A consultant was instrumental in advising Miami moneyman and convicted tax cheat Victor Posner on his offer to establish shelters for the homeless in lieu of prison time. Onetime Wall Street legal eagle and insider trader Martin Siegel asked for and received the chore of running a children's computer camp. Securities fraudster Michael Milken is awaiting court approval...
...Miami, where Robert Darias, then 46, faced a winter of discontent. A Cuban exile, he had spent 20 months in Fidel Castro's prison camps after being captured during the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. He had also served time in an American pokey for tax fraud, and still owed the Internal Revenue Service $200,000. Darias, though, did have a couple of highly marketable assets. His gentlemanly, businesslike demeanor inspired trust, and he knew some things about drug dealing in South Florida's Cuban community. And so, out of financial desperation, he volunteered to spy for the Drug...
...This device is designed to protect new investors from an expected tide of claims on old U.S. asbestos- and pollution-related cases. Otherwise the plan did little to pacify thousands of angry, financially ruined Names in litigation over losses they believe were caused by negligence, incompetence and even fraud rather than bad luck. They say they will fight on, plan...