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...college after beloved Dad expires. Dragon Lady Mom, who did federal time on a slavery rap, swoops in to stoke love-hate relationship with Junior. Three busy years hence, Bonnie and the Son of Clyde are Public Enemies Nos. 1 and 2, suspected of murder, mayhem, arson and fraud in a spooky, dark-hearted, cross-country jag stretching from Hawaii to the Bahamas...
...York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir says hundreds of leads and inquiries have come in from across the country and beyond since the Kimeses were nabbed July 5 in New York on a fraud warrant after a Lincoln Town Car they allegedly purchased with a rubber check was found with a loaded gun, a box of .22-cal. cartridges, wigs, $30,000 in cash, blood splatters and documents that may link them to the dead man and the missing banker...
Both Silverman and Cendant chairman Walter Forbes, (the former president of CUC) say they saw no hint of the fraud until very recently. Whether I believe them is less important than this: I had a chance to get out after the stock rallied on the first assurances, and I didn't. I wanted to be made whole--a costly impulse in these situations...
Despite the huge, multiyear nature of the fraud at Cendant, there were no criminal investigations through week's end. A number of class-action suits have been filed, but I doubt we will see much after the lawyers take their cuts. Looks as though the only winners here were the two top executives, who together sold more than $100 million worth of stock before we even smelled that first hint of trouble. The losers: those of us who believed that someone who once misled us wouldn't do it again...
Despite hearing that damning litany, District of Columbia superior court Judge George Mitchell last month ordered that Pixley be moved from a detention center--where she was serving time for killing her daughter and committing credit-card fraud--to a facility that allows children, so that she could take custody of her fourth child, Cornilous, 2. In an earlier, related action, Montgomery County (Md.) circuit court Judge Michael Mason had ruled that Pixley was free of the postpartum depression that had caused her to kill her daughter, and that it was in Cornilous' "best interest" that he be returned...