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...Nearly 2,800 financial institutions went bankrupt in 1981 and 1992, with losses that could eventually total $300 billion. The Justice Department has almost 10,000 investigations under way, and its defenders point out that it has so far won 95% of its prosecutions for S&L fraud...
...respectable citizens like Kimba Wood. By many accounts, Wood could have been a fantastic attorney general. A Federal District Judge since 1988, she has a reputation for toughness that she earned by sentencing Michael Milken to 10 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to six counts of fraud...
Scott is a former assistant U.S. attorney. He successfully prosecuted former State Senator Jim Kelly in 1982 for fraud and for taking kick backs...
...GENTEEL OLD LADY EXPLAINS IT ALL in the early pages of FRAUD, Anita Brookner's new novel (Random House; $21). "She loves me, but I've taken away her life," she says of her daughter. "She will want to put me behind her, as I should have let her do years ago." Years ago and books ago. Brookner has built a reputation as Britain's foremost novelist of sensibility. Her books are true to their subjects and scrupulously written. But there comes a time when rebellion flares in the reader, who knows by now that it will take the daughter...
...government recommended leniency at Bedinger's sentencing based on his "completely truthful" cooperation in ongoing investigations of bank fraud as well as in two other investigation of fraud involving the same condominiums...