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...wept, but also that the purported theft had been an inside job. St. Irene's bishop, Vikentios of Avlon, who belongs to a breakaway branch of the church, retorted that he would file a $50 million defamation suit against the archdiocese. The police say they have no evidence of fraud. If St. Irene was not crying before...
...What have you got? A soggy echo of The Ed Sullivan Show. Now mention the homeless to customers who paid $60 a ticket and add a row of chorines waving flags in the aftermath of a war. What have you got? A Tony Award. And a pious fraud...
...What have you got? A soggy echo of The Ed Sullivan Show. Now mention the homeless to customers who paid $60 a ticket and add a row of chorines waving flags in the aftermath of a war. What have you got? A Tony Award. And a pious fraud...
...apparitions are a headache for the local Roman Catholic bishop, Pavao Zanic. He flatly asserts that "the Madonna has never said anything at Medjugorje." Our Lady, he snaps, has been turned into "a tourist attraction" and "a bank teller." The Vatican has intervened to determine whether Medjugorje is a fraud. Rome is officially noncommital while the case remains open but advises bishops not to sponsor pilgrimages to the site...
...Credit & Commerce International, marched into a crowded Manhattan courtroom last Friday and settled, in one unexpected swoop, all U.S. criminal charges outstanding against B.C.C.I. as a corporation. The bank, which in the U.S. is now essentially just a hollow shell, pleaded guilty to federal and state charges of racketeering, fraud and money laundering. The liquidators agreed to surrender virtually every penny of B.C.C.I.'s assets in the U.S., a total of $550 million, which represents the largest criminal forfeiture in history...