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...against their political enemies. For example, after Bill Bradley assailed George W. Bush for hustling votes at South Carolina's Bob Jones University, which still bans interracial dating, conservative pundit George F. Will homed in on Bradley's meetings with Sharpton. Noting that Sharpton "associated with a colossal fraud in the Tawana Brawley case," Will asked Bradley in a TV interview, "Are you comfortable around him? And why?" Bradley ducked the question...
Lloyd's denies any wrongdoing and will defend itself vigorously. The insurance behemoth "has never been found guilty of fraud," says spokesman Adrian Beeby. Lloyd's has already beaten back a welter of legal actions in Britain. But it faces more charges on this side of the Atlantic. The U.S. Attorney in New York City has made Lloyd's the target of an intensive criminal investigation. And in a pivotal case due for trial early next year before a California state court in Los Angeles, a father and two daughters who lost heavily in Lloyd's have brought allegations...
...disclosures of Lloyd's true financial condition set off a frenzy of lawsuits and government probes on both sides of the Atlantic. British police were swamped by reports of fraud. "We were hearing the same thing from every direction," a senior law-enforcement source told TIME. "There was worry that the whole insurance business of the U.K. could collapse." In Washington the Securities and Exchange Commission launched two separate investigations of Lloyd's in 1991, only to halt both a year later in what former chairman Richard Breeden describes as deference to British court actions...
...mother thinks about Nicole Kidman more than most people should. Her theory? Kidman is Satan incarnate--a fraud, a floozy who has manipulated her way onto movie screens, magazine covers and into our collective consciousness. "She's pure evil," my mom has said on more than one occasion. "She married Tom Cruise for the money, for the fame, for the camera flashes." "She's a bad actress." "She's naked all the time." "I heard she sleeps around." I just figured my mom had a secret crush on Tom Cruise and was taking it out on poor Nicole...
Mitnick spent 4 1/2 years in pretrial detention before pleading guilty to wire and computer fraud. The opinions expressed here are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as technical advice of any kind...