Word: fraud
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Hamilton had been noticeably dry-eyed back in January, when bankrupt Post owner Peter Kalikow unloaded the guns-'n'-buns tabloid on shadowy New York financier Steven Hoffenberg. At the time, Hoffenberg was under federal investigation for fraud. Even so, Hoffenberg had initially seemed an acceptable owner to most of the future Post mutineers. Hoffenberg hired as his editor Pete Hamill, the open-necktie Post alumnus whom he paid $500,000 a year to reprise his long-running I'm-just-a-working-class-stiff...
DICK THORNBURGH, THE top-ranking American official in the U.N. Secretariat, wrapped up a year of service with a blast at the "deadwood, featherbedding, fraud and abuse" that permeate the world body. The departing Under Secretary- General for Management pulled no punches, charging that some vital agencies have become "patronage dumping grounds" and that the budgeting process is "almost surreal." Further angering Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali by going public with his mince-no-words report and then repeating his charges before a U.S. congressional committee, Thornburgh, a former Attorney General, warns that antireform forces are defeating efforts to make...
Inventor C. Francis Jenkins demonstrated his "long-distance cinema" by transmitting "still" pictures over radio waves from Washington to Philadelphia. U.S. Navy astronomer Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See denounced Albert Einstein as a fraud. Birth control was a subject of passionate debate, and in fact was forbidden under the U.S. penal code ("Every obscene, lewd or lascivious book . . . designed for preventing conception or producing abortion . . . is hereby declared to be non-mailable matter"). As this last item suggests, some attitudes do change. What has not changed in 70 years, however, is our determination to ensure that TIME still holds together...
...race for the White House last March, is the mother's milk of politics. According to federal officials, Tsongas' chief fund raiser and longtime friend, Nicholas A. Rizzo Jr., illegally siphoned off a lot of that milk for himself in what appears to be the biggest campaign-fund fraud case in U.S. history. In a 46-count indictment, they accused Rizzo, 59, of illegally taking more than $1 million meant for the cash-starved Tsongas campaign. Rizzo pleaded not guilty...
...means certain last week that the Trade Center bombing was an act of political terrorism. During the Gulf War, a bomb found on a chemical storage tank in Virginia instantly raised an alarm. The culprit turned out to be a businessman who hoped to make an insurance-fraud fire look like the work of Iraqis...