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They do now. Since Sept. 11, the number of FBI personnel working on counterterrorism has grown from 1,000 to 4,000. A new cybercrime division monitors credit-card-fraud schemes that terrorists use to fund their activities. Stung by criticism over its historic reluctance to share secret evidence with local cops, the FBI now sees it doesn't have a choice. Edward Flynn, the police chief in Arlington County, Va., says the FBI is giving local cops more leads than they can handle. "They feel compelled to tell us this stuff," he says...
...Huber, who claims he is suffering from an asbestos-related illness, maintains that he never saw a dime. So on Feb. 7 he joined 2,644 other plaintiffs in another class action. This one charges six personal-injury attorneys and their firms in federal court in Pittsburgh, Pa., with fraud, malpractice and deception--or, as the complaint boldly states, "this case arises from corruption within the asbestos personal injury...
...pair face expulsion from the country and possible criminal charges primarily because of an article alleging tensions between Thailand's King and Prime Minister. CONVICTED. FRANCOISE SAGAN, 66, French author whose debut novel Bonjour Tristesse, written at the age of 19, became an international best-seller, of tax fraud; in Paris. Sagan was given a one-year suspended jail sentence for failing to declare...
...report released in January by the Kenyan chapter of Transparency International suggests that small, everyday bribes are just as costly as big-time fraud. Researchers asked more than 1,000 Kenyans how often they were hit up for bribes, how much they paid and whether things were getting worse. Respondents to the Kenyan Urban Bribery Index, as the survey is called, paid around 16 bribes a month, an average of $100 or one-third of respondents' mean monthly income. Most respondents said things were getting worse. The biggest bribe takers, according to the findings, are law-enforcement institutions like...
Most controversial of all may be Schill's use of crime statistics to portray Hamburg as a hotbed of criminality. The number of crimes reported in 2001 rose by 12.1% compared with 2000, but a single case of stock fraud involving 26,500 victims scattered throughout Germany accounted for most of the increase. In fact, breaking-and-entering cases declined by 19.3% last year and muggings by 27.2%, according to police statistics. Still, some 60% of voters surveyed in one poll found street crime the biggest issue in the election. "The old government didn't address problems like drug crime...