Word: fraude
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...heighten a shrewdly earthbound interpretation. Her Arcati is not dotty or otherworldly. She is a coarse, calculating businesswoman, a vulgar social climber, a tiresome, self-absorbed frump who just happens to be a medium with the gift of raising the dead. Her manner is so much the grasping fraud that the audience is stunned when she delivers the goods. Indeed, she is stunned herself: there are few funnier sights than Page striding across the stage in pursuit of a ghost whose presence she senses but cannot see, snuffling at the wraith's ectoplasm like a spaniel who just knows...
...political tilt, the government has embargoed shipments to Iraq's neighboring enemy. France's largest munitions producer, Luchaire, allegedly secretly sold 450,000 artillery shells to Iran between 1983 and 1985. The deliveries were concealed behind manifests that named Brazil, Thailand and Portugal as destinations. The French government filed fraud charges against Luchaire more than a year ago, but since then little action has been taken...
Since Joe and I go way back--we ran a mail-fraud scheme together in high school--I took an opportunity to conduct a exclusive personal interview with the man one astute observer described as "the next Bruce Babbit...
...year his father began to chafe. "I was 90% businessman. I was wearing a mask all the time." He would project himself as a man of the masses when dealing with socialist clients, could quickly affect a monied mien for the benefit of the capitalists, and felt like a fraud. It was also in 1979 that the couple bought the boat, for about $35,000, and began to lay plans...
...Vatican has steadfastly denied responsibility in the Ambrosiano affair. Nonetheless, and against Marcinkus' advice, the Vatican agreed in 1984 to pay $244 million to the bank's creditors as a goodwill gesture. At issue is whether the Vatican Bank owned the dummy companies and thus was involved in the fraud. Marcinkus' defense has reportedly been that his bank just held papers of collateral against them...