Word: fraud
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...rather than any deep moral concerns or a sudden new respect for our nation's drug laws. Moreover, I am not willing to describe my earlier actions, which I knew to be illegal, as "youthful indiscretions" unless I am also prepared to characterize similarly other nonviolent offenses, such as fraud or burglary...
...grand jury and believes she should not be compelled to answer questions from lawyers without having her lawyer present. "Some of her arguments are interesting but they're not the law," the judge said. Mrs. McDougal and her ex-husband, James, were convicted in May on numerous felony fraud counts. She is to begin a two-year prison sentence on September 30. In an interview to be broadcast Wednesday night on ABC, Mrs. McDougal says she has considered cooperating with prosecutors. "It is tempting every time they put the carrot before my eyes," she said. "It's very tempting...
...grand jury and believes she should not be compelled to answer questions from lawyers without having her lawyer present. "Some of her arguments are interesting but they're not the law," the judge said. Mrs. McDougal and her ex-husband, James, were convicted in May on numerous felony fraud counts. She is to begin a two-year prison sentence on September 30. In an interview to be broadcast Wednesday night on ABC, Mrs. McDougal says she has considered cooperating with prosecutors. "It is tempting every time they put the carrot before my eyes," she said. "It's very tempting...
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas: Calling prosecutors' request for a lengthy prison term a death sentence, a federal judge sentenced former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker to four years probation for his May 28 conviction on Whitewater fraud and conspiracy charges. U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr. said prison "would be as cruel as the grave" for the ailing defendant. Tucker faced 10 years in prison but had appealed for leniency, citing his public humiliation and a chronic liver condition. Tucker was the first of the three Whitewater defendants to be sentenced. Susan McDougal will be sentenced Tuesday, but after cooperating with...
Stripping the Guerre story of its suspense, composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and lyricist Alain Boublil establish from the start that the new, improved Martin is a fraud--and a godsend to the virgin wife Bertrande. That's fine; we want to know why she connives in the deception. But the plot is hoked up with religious pieties (Huguenots are the new Bosnians) and a psycho villain desperate to take any Martin's place in Bertrande's bed. It's Romeo and Juliet without the poetry, or an Oklahoma! that...