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...resigned in March 1994 amid allegations that he had bilked his clients and partners out of thousands of dollars at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he once worked with Mrs. Clinton. By August 1995, Clinton's close friend was in jail, serving 21 months for fraud...
...Yorker magazine, McDougal now backs David Hale's story that Clinton pressured him to make a $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal. That's a departure from what both McDougal and Clinton testified under oath last year, when McDougal and former Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker were convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from the Whitewater investigation. In videotaped testimony, Clinton denied any memory of making such a loan, and White House spokesman Mike McCurry says the President stands by his testimony. Why did the Arkansas businessman recant and open himself up to perjury charges? According to ex-wife...
...sure didn't look that way in 1989, after Lincoln bit the desert dust and Keating faced a series of highly publicized trials. Prosecutors vilified him as a high-living, white-collar sociopath, and he was convicted on no less than 90 federal and state counts of fraud, racketeering and conspiracy. The main charges: that he directed the sale of fraudulently marketed junk bonds to tens of thousands of Lincoln customers and that he orchestrated a series of sham real estate transactions to inflate Lincoln's profits. Packed off to prison in handcuffs and chains under the glare...
...tell that to the thousands of losers in Keating's junk-bond schemes. Ramona Jacobs of Burbank, California, a telephone-company assistant manager who testified in one of the civil-fraud cases, says she lost $11,000 when the junk bonds she was talked into buying at Lincoln Savings turned out to be worthless. (Most of the purchasers have since recovered about 70 cents on the dollar.) The loss, she says, delayed desperately needed medical treatment for her daughter Michelle. "The people at his bank told me it was safe; they said there was nothing to worry about...
...flat $19.95-per-month, all-you-can-surf price. It sounded terrific, but the glut of new subscribers--along with increased use by 7 million veteran members--made AOL nearly inaccessible at times. One result: last week a subscribers group nailed the service with a $20 million consumer-fraud lawsuit. Just two days after issuing a statement downplaying the suit, AOL--famous for blitzkrieg marketing tactics--reconsidered and announced a full retreat: the company will throttle back efforts to sign up new subscribers and invest $350 million to upgrade its networks. That may not be a fast enough...