Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever since Alan Dershowitz struck out, Leona Helmsley has been pining away in Danbury federal prison. Not for long, if ROBERT BORK has anything to say about it. Judge Bork, a Supreme Court nominee who was spurned in 1987, will argue her tax-fraud case before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City at the end of the summer. As Solicitor General for Presidents Nixon and Ford, he spent four years arguing cases before the Supreme Court. But why would a distinguished legal scholar and jurist want to take an assignment like the Helmsley case? Explains...
Bush says he opposes the measure, which would supersede a patchwork of similar laws already on the books in 30 states, because he believes its looser registration requirements would lead to voter fraud. Less advertised but no less important is the White House's reluctance to boost voter turnout in a year when outsider Ross Perot has scrambled the Electoral College math and the throw-the-bums-out mood has reached epidemic proportion...
None of these qualms, however, are likely to slow the relentless race toward global electronic trading. If handled correctly, the new systems could lead to markets that are more efficient and easier to monitor and police for fraud. In any event, the scenes of traders wildly waving pieces of paper from the floor pits will give way to those of traders around the world furiously typing orders into computers...
...would attack it. Does he favor higher taxes? No . . . Well, yes . . . Well, maybe. So far, the most specific program Perot has been able to describe would balance the budget by (shades of Michael Dukakis!) taxing the "underground economy" and (shades of the Grace Commission!) eliminating waste and fraud in government. It seems likely, somehow, that if it were really that simple, someone else would already have done...
...signed up for the military to "get responsible" after getting a high school girlfriend pregnant. But when he returned to Los Angeles, he drifted into crime. His homeys had stepped up their activities to robbery, credit-card fraud and even arson. Despite his musical ambitions, Marrow rejoined his crew and started making serious money. He says now of that period, "I thought I'd be a hustler for the rest of my life...