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...detective was sent to 11 Quincy St. to take a report of identity fraud...
...even take the steps to formally consider barring MCI from government contracts until June - a year after the first revelations that the company had misrepresented its true financial condition by $11 billion through accounting fraud - the largest fraud in corporate history. The delay prompted questions on Capitol Hill, where lobbyists from the White House as well as former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani's firm were dispatched to head off a measure earlier this month that would have barred the company from future contracts. The measure was watered down and then attached to an appropriations bill which had not yet passed...
...using their networks to promote their own political or business interests, and Cem himself is barred from leaving the country because of the bank imbroglio. And that's just the family's troubles in Turkey. In New York, a judge could rule as early as this week on a fraud and racketeering case brought against the Uzans by Motorola and Nokia. The mobile-phone giants allege that the Uzans lured them into loaning $2.7 billion in cash and equipment to an Uzan-controlled company, Telsim, and that the family had no intention of repaying the loans. Hundreds of millions...
...suit by Principe and her nephew is not directly related to the main battle over who owns the Berlin properties; it rather focuses on the alleged 1951 fraud. But Principe does stand to gain if the Jewish Claims Conference wins, as it usually gives a percentage of any settlement to surviving relatives. This sort of legal morass was exactly what the Germans hoped to avoid after reunification. The government deliberately decoupled unresolved ownership questions from use of the property itself, which enabled large swaths of eastern Germany to be developed even as title to the real estate remained contested...
...Sentenced. Yang Bin, 40, Chinese-born Dutch citizen who once ranked as China's second-richest man; to 18 years in prison for crimes including bribery and fraud; in Shenyang, China. Yang became wealthy raising flowers, before expanding into real estate. In 2002, he was selected to head a North Korean Special Administrative Region in the city of Sinuiju, apparently without Beijing's prior consent. He was arrested shortly afterward...