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Starr was poised, meanwhile, to flank Clinton on other fronts. Last week his team persuaded former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker to plead guilty in Little Rock to fraud in exchange for helping Starr with his probe of Clinton's Whitewater finances. Clinton and Tucker, onetime rivals, met at the White House in late 1993, just days before both men were named by federal banking regulators in criminal referrals to the Justice Department. Starr would like to know what the two men talked about in that session; both have described it as routine...
...bumbling ex-Governor may be on his way to prison for a fraud conviction, and the most popular future candidate is a Wild West sheriff with his own legal problems who rose to fame on the strength of such practices as dressing inmates in pink underwear. Exhibition baseball can't compete...
Mederos said the victims "fall for it because the individuals perpetrating the fraud are credible...
...difficult to overcome the shock value when the jury heard the words 'bubonic plague' and realized it was being sent through the mail." ?-Attorney George Luther in June 1997, on the 11th-hour decision of his client, anthrax attack suspect Larry Wayne Harris, to plead guilty to wire fraud...
Daily Spin "Easiest job ever!!!" --A brochure for nuclear-waste-eating "California Red Superworms" sold by a New Mexico man, Thomas Huntington, for $500 per 4 lbs. Huntington, 51, was arrested for multiple counts of fraud after convincing would-be entrepreneurs they could strike it rich breeding the worms for sale to nuclear-waste facilities...