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...arrive on the scene almost as fast as the lawyers, and movie producers are not far behind. Such was the case with R. Foster Winans, the former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of the paper's influential "Heard on the Street" column. Winans was convicted last year of fraud and conspiracy for leaking the contents of his articles before their publication to two New York stockbrokers, who traded on the information and earned nearly $700,000 in illegal profits. The reporter, who received $30,000 of that money, was sentenced to 18 months in prison...
...until ten minutes after the scheduled start of her meeting with Botha that one of King's aides brought the message that she would not keep the appointment. The President said her absence was caused by "those who find themselves in a make-believe world of political fraud." For his part, Buthelezi charged that King had fallen prey to the "internecine political feuding which so lamentably characterizes black South African politics...
Shortly thereafter several alumni filed a complaint with the Massachusetts attorney general's division of public charities which is conducting an inquiry into the University's handling of the Board of Overseers election. Alumni accused Bok of fraud for not fully revealing his involvement in the sending of the letter...
...alumni also charged that Derek Bok, who admitted his involvement in the overseers controversy well after the first news stories on the subject had appeared, practiced "constructive fraud" by not informing the Harvard community that he had asked Joan Bok to write the letter...
...think the attorney general has some realserious fraud to look into," said Steiner,dismissing the possibility that an investigationwas in progress...