Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cambridge City Councillor William H. Walsh is under investigation for bank fraud by federal authorities. And, according to many of Walsh's political enemies, it comes as no surprise...
...68th birthday was not an occasion for celebration. Instead, a state-court jury in Los Angeles found the former head of California's Lincoln Savings & Loan, whose company sold $250 million in junk bonds to unwitting investors as it headed toward insolvency, guilty of 17 counts of securities fraud. Keating, whose $1.4 million in political contributions entangled five U.S. Senators in the S&L scandal, faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Last month the Senate reprimanded California Senator Alan Cranston for soliciting contributions from Keating while he was ! urging federal regulators to go easy on Keating...
...efforts to rescue the family business suffered one setback after another in recent weeks, including stunning revelations of possible fraud and double- dealing. Unable to keep the conglomerate, parts of which are publically traded, from unraveling, Maxwell's sons called it quits last week and put the family's privately held enterprises into receivership. Although the filing will buy the family time, it will do little to end the international row over Maxwell's assets. The Maxwell empire, which ranges from such highly visible publications as New York City's Daily News and London's Daily Mirror to tiny entities...
...last week, he deceived them. Not only did the babymaker tell women they were pregnant when they weren't, say federal officials, but he secretly inseminated others with his own seed, fathering at least seven children for couples who thought they were receiving legitimate donor sperm. "It's basic fraud of the cruelest sort," said U.S. Attorney Richard Cullen, whose office is prosecuting the case...
...Cruelest Kind of Fraud...