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...review all accusations." Norquist says he believes the direction of the Indian Affairs Committee's probe is being driven by an old rivalry between him and the committee chairman, Republican Senator John McCain. "This is completely political," Norquist says. McCain said last week's hearings sought to uncover fraud against the Choctaws, not investigate Norquist or Reed...
SENTENCED. JOHN RIGAS, 80, ailing founder of U.S. cable giant Adelphia Communications, and his son TIMOTHY RIGAS, 49, its former CFO; to 15 and 20 years in prison, respectively, for their 2004 convictions for bank fraud, securities fraud and conspiracy; in New York City. In looting Adelphia of $100 million and hiding its $2.3 billion debt from investors, the Rigases pushed the firm into bankruptcy, gutting the savings of many small shareholders in its former hometown of rural Coudersport...
...raps were to come. Not surprisingly, football had nothing for him after his playing career ended within a year. "I'd hoped to coach," says Sample, 48, "but the only letter I could bring myself to write wasn't answered." In 1972 a federal court convicted him of check fraud, and he served 366 days in prison. At Allen-wood, Pa., "not a jail, a summer camp," Sample realized how much he "needed to be connected somehow" with sports. "I never played tennis before I retired, but I played there every day." Now Sample is a tennis linesman at tournaments...
...friend, called Manes "a crook" and urged him to resign. "It was the biggest shock that I've suffered politically," Koch told TIME last week. Manes did resign on Feb. 11. The final blow came last week, when his friend Lindenauer pleaded guilty to extortion and mail fraud and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. Apparently that was enough to drive Manes to his last desperate act--an end foreshadowed 31 years earlier when his own father, despondent over reported financial reverses, shot himself to death. --By John S. DeMott. Reported by Joseph N. Boyce/New York
...seven FBI agents entered a branch office of Caucus Distributors Inc., a LaRouche-run company, and seized documents. Later the same day a federal grand jury in Boston handed up a 117-count indictment charging ten defendants with obstruction of justice and more than $1 million in credit-card fraud related to fund raising for LaRouche's 1984 presidential campaign. Six of the indicted LaRouche followers were subsequently arrested in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia...