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...hasn?t been. It?s unclear what will happen to Mrs. Hanssen and their kids; I?m sure they have a lawyer trying to figure all of this out. It?s possible that the IRS could come after her for tax fraud, the government could take away their house and his pension, and she could be left destitute. On the other hand, the government could take a more lenient position, since she didn?t seem to be involved in the espionage...
Although Ford was applauded for the speed and candor of its initial response, the attorneys general of all 50 states agreed last fall to investigate Ford and Firestone to determine whether they may have committed consumer fraud under racketeering statutes. According to the office of Florida attorney general Bob Butterworth, those probes have been gaining momentum...
...priest who helped topple the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986--and then the elected President whom thousands of U.S. G.I.s restored to power after a military coup a decade ago. Yet he is also seen as a mystic demagogue whose Fanmi Lavalas Party allegedly committed electoral fraud in last May's Senate races. Bush, as a result, sent no one to Aristide's inauguration...
Last Wednesday was deliverance day for Vladimir Gusinsky. When a Madrid court turned down Russia's request to extradite the 48-year-old media magnate on fraud charges - ending his 10-month tussle with Kremlin prosecutors - Gusinsky savored his redemption. Fielding congratulatory calls on three phones at his villa in Sotogrande, he told one well-wisher, "This isn't the end of anything. It's the beginning...
...high-flying '80s. Milken's patron on the pardon front was Ron Burkle, a generous Democratic donor, but as soon as it became known that Milken, who served nearly two years in prison and paid more than $1 billion in connection with his conviction on six counts of securities fraud, was on the list of potential clemency recipients, loud protests from securities regulators and others apparently doomed the effort. White is presumably trying to establish the methodology by which Clinton decided to mete out pardons and commutations, something that could be important in proving a quid...