Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most spectacular -- and most tangled -- in postwar Austrian history. It riveted the attention of the public for 14 years. Last week, after a trial that lasted 13 months, the saga of the ill-fated freighter Lucona finally came to an end when Udo Proksch was convicted of murder and fraud and was sentenced to 20 years in prison...
...fraud was uncovered when a high-tech deep-sea search found the scrap metal and concluded that the Lucona had been deliberately scuttled. Two former government ministers were forced to resign after being accused of involvement in the scandal. Proksch plans to appeal...
...bills. As a result, her credit rating was ruined and she was successfully sued by her doctor. Enraged, Haslip filed a lawsuit against Ruffin and his employer, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. The jury was more than sympathetic: it found that Pacific Mutual had reason to suspect Ruffin's fraud, and awarded Haslip $1 million, including $840,000 in punitive damages...
...interdict all transfer of money and assets between the two banks. The regulators asked the Justice Department, which has appeared reluctant to pursue allegations, to begin a criminal and civil investigation. The Fed was responding to pressure generated by Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau, who is presenting evidence of fraud, money laundering and disguised ownership to a New York City grand jury. Morgenthau has formally told the Fed his office has evidence that First American is under secret control...
...tentatively agreed to pay some $40 million to the Federal Government for faulty work done by a predecessor firm, Arthur Young & Co., on behalf of Charles Keating's failed Lincoln Savings. The settlement could be a bargain: it should keep Ernst from being named in a $2 billion government fraud-and-racketeering suit stemming from Lincoln's collapse...