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...Miami, where Robert Darias, then 46, faced a winter of discontent. A Cuban exile, he had spent 20 months in Fidel Castro's prison camps after being captured during the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. He had also served time in an American pokey for tax fraud, and still owed the Internal Revenue Service $200,000. Darias, though, did have a couple of highly marketable assets. His gentlemanly, businesslike demeanor inspired trust, and he knew some things about drug dealing in South Florida's Cuban community. And so, out of financial desperation, he volunteered to spy for the Drug...
...This device is designed to protect new investors from an expected tide of claims on old U.S. asbestos- and pollution-related cases. Otherwise the plan did little to pacify thousands of angry, financially ruined Names in litigation over losses they believe were caused by negligence, incompetence and even fraud rather than bad luck. They say they will fight on, plan...
...were very concerned about the allegation of fraud," says Hayes. "But we talked to Professor Epstein, talked to people in California. Mr. Ryan called some of his friends out in California, and they said there was nothing like this involved...
...million or two into an offshore haven. Despite their best efforts, however, investigators have been unable to find it. Considering his own admission that his lawsuit is "humiliating" and the fact that his plea agreement would be revoked if he lies, Ivan Boesky, who built a fortune on fraud, might just be telling the truth...
...whether Jurassic Park lives up to its makers' hopes and boasts. They will be looking not for a museum exhibit but for a good movie -- one that spurs childlike terror and wonder by fooling the eye 24 times a second. They want to be convinced that the artful fraud on the screen is real. The prehistoric creatures from The Lost World (1925), One Million B.C. (1940), The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) and Godzilla (1954) dwelt in kids' nightmares, not because they were realistic -- scientists knew so much less about dinosaurs back then, and film budgets were so much...