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Could be. Last week the Governor was himself convicted in a Phoenix federal court of seven counts of fraud. A jury found him guilty of repeatedly lying on loan applications to shore up his wobbly real estate empire. Under stringent federal sentencing guidelines--of the sort he in the past would have heartily endorsed--Symington will almost certainly do time...
...guilty sense of the injustice of fame assaults the famed one as well: "Why am I famous? Why do all these people seem to love me? I don't deserve it. I am a fraud." The anguished, neurotic internal monologue gets dramatized in self-destructive ways (drug overdoses, alcohol, rampages, broken marriages, suicides or, if the celebrities are lucky, a trudge through the rehab that ends with confession and absolution in prime time: "I feel more centered now, Barbara"); all this mess forms up as part of the great sobbing dysfunctional pageant on display at the supermarket check-out counters...
...even reckless. But to indict him for being good-time Charlie and not be able to show a quid pro quo" will hurt Smaltz's case. Smaltz did persuade a court to impose a $1.5 million fine on Sun-Diamond Growers for providing Espy with illegal gratuities. But his fraud case against Espy's brother was thrown out of court in March, and a federal judge in Washington ordered a new trial for another defendant after finding that Smaltz's office had failed to disclose evidence favorable to him. Attorney Stan Brand, a veteran of public-corruption cases, poses...
...conference in Los Angeles this summer to show off a sapphire ring that she said was an engagement ring and to charge that she had been jilted in favor of Diana. Fisher, who also used the press conference to announce a $440,000 lawsuit for breach of contract and fraud, contended that while Dodi was wooing Diana on his father's yacht in the Mediterranean, he had Fisher hidden away nearby and was begging her to have his child...
...Other News: Sixty-five people are believed dead in a fiery plane crash in Cambodia (Reuters) ... Arizona Governor Fyfe Simington has been found guilty on seven counts of bank fraud (All Politics) ... Vice-President Al Gore has denied knowledge of campaign finance wrongdoing (TIME Daily)... Big Tobacco increases wholesale cigarette prices nearly 8 percent (TIME Daily) ... Volatile Southeast Asian markets could cause a banking collapse (TIME Daily) ... and your GP may not know his stethascope from his elbow (TIME Daily...