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...growth come high risks, including dramatic booms and busts, political instability and worse. Michael Smith, Hong Kong-- based CEO of HSBC in Asia, found that out one day in 1999 in Buenos Aires, where he was managing the Argentina operation. He had made some enemies while stamping out suspected fraud. As he drove from his office, armed men in two cars ambushed him and riddled his car with bullets. Smith got shot in the thigh but managed to smash his blood-splattered sedan through his assailants' vehicles and outlast them in a long chase. "It was real James Bond stuff...
...year for his part in a gifts-for-contracts scheme--are also charging their local officials. The FBI even had a local West Virginia politician facing corruption charges pose as a candidate in a state-legislature election in order to help uncover vote buying and other instances of election fraud. The phony candidate pulled out before the actual election, but when he ended up with more than 2,000 votes in a close race, some critics wondered whether the feds had gone too far and skewed the results...
...Abramoff Scanlon's draft of a statement praising Adam Kidan, a co-owner of SunCruz Casinos, a Florida gambling-boat company that Abramoff and Kidan had bought the month before, after a public dispute with the previous owner. Abramoff and Kidan, who have since pleaded guilty in Florida to fraud in connection with their financing of the SunCruz purchase, hoped that Ney's positive statement would "let people know that SunCruz now was in honest hands," according to a source familiar with the case. In an Oct. 23 e-mail, Abramoff proposed throwing $10,000 at the NRCC...
...jazz sound track and the casting of Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) as an aging grifter ("You're never too old to cheat, my dear"). Adrian Lester (Primary Colors) is ice cool as Mickey, a Zen master of con who treats his work more as philosophy than fraud. It's all delightfully phony, but will win your faith on charm and panache. Just watch your wallet...
...proposition that legally reported campaign contributions constitute bribery, if it can be proved they were given expressly in return for official actions. A high-level source tells TIME that prosecutors will also focus much of their energies on the lesser and easier-to-prove charge of "honest services mail fraud," for which they have to show only that a lawmaker has acted in his personal interest or that of another individual but not of his constituents in return for improper gain. That lowering of the bar for criminal-corruption cases is sending shudders from the Capitol to the lobbying corridor...