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...RICO in 1970 sought to create matching law-enforcement breadth by focusing on patterns rather than instances of criminal behavior. Thus the law applies to those involved in an interstate "enterprise" that engages more than once in ten years in criminal activities ranging from mail, wire and stock fraud to extortion and murder. While many smiled over the acronym's reference to Rico, the archetypal gangster played by Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar, federal prosecutors were slow to use the new legislation. But "since 1980 it's been used aggressively," says the delighted principal drafter, G. Robert Blakey...
...papers released last week merely added to the mounting evidence of Marcos' misdeeds, including apparent fraud, corporate kickbacks and attempted embezzlement of U.S. aid. The incriminating material, which Marcos brought with him to Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii when he fled, became available after more than two weeks of legal wrangling among Solarz, Salonga and Marcos' lawyers. The maneuvering gave the Philippine government a foretaste of what it will face in the months, and perhaps years, ahead as it tries to recover the former leader's riches. The jockeying was also an early test of relations between President Reagan...
Indeed, Reagan will not be judged on his initial blunder about fraud in recent Philippine elections; he will be remembered for helping to remove a longstanding dictator and reestablishing a democracy in the island nation. His job was to oversee U.S. policy toward Marcos in the broadest sense...
...commission report is in spots bluntly critical of the way the Pentagon and Congress shape defense budgets. "There is no rational system," the report states, for reaching "coherent and enduring agreement on national military strategy." With some exceptions, "weapons systems take too long and cost too much to produce." Fraud and dishonesty are not principally to blame, says the report; rather, "the truly costly problems are those of overcomplicated organization and rigid procedure...
...months after Burnett's parole from a federal prison on charges of currency manipulation and possession of stolen stocks, and the con man seemed a sure bet for a return stretch. But he was no run-of-the-mill criminal. For 30 years Burnett had negotiated light sentences for fraud and other crimes by informing for the FBI. Now he again offered to trade, telling the FBI that while working for Systematic Recovery Service, a collection agency trying to secure municipal contracts in New York and Chicago, he had stumbled into widespread political corruption...