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...chief of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission seemed the very pillar of rectitude. Hardworking and scrupulous, John M. Fedders, 43, had a reputation as a vigorous prosecutor of disclosure fraud and insider trading. A former partner in the Washington law firm of Arnold & Porter, he was the father of five sons, a member of the high-toned Congressional Country Club and a churchgoing Catholic who idolized General George Patton. In fact, unknown to almost everyone, Fedders was leading a Jekyll and Hyde double life...
...Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party is enduring one of its most serious political challenges in 56 years. The De la Madrid administration, which came to office in 1982 amid promises of "moral renovation," is facing a popular backlash, particularly in the north, where riots against alleged P.R.I. election fraud have sputtered for weeks. Increasingly, Mexican ire is directed at a P.R.I. legacy of corruption, graft and lawlessness that De la Madrid's new broom has been unable to sweep away. Says Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California at San Diego...
...multistate task force is currently trying to unravel the complicated scheme. As for Rogers, two weeks ago, he entered California's Lompoc prison camp to begin serving a six-month sentence on a separate charge of bankruptcy fraud...
...military installations. At home, his 8 a.m. staff meetings usually begin with a review of the "early bird," a packet of the previous day's news stories involving the military. Indeed, even his supporters say he is more apt to react to a press account of waste and fraud than he is to any internal effort to improve Pentagon management...
...that offer investment advice has been almost straight up. Since 1970, the number of tip sheets devoted to picking everything from stocks to crops has doubled, to more than 700. That rapid growth has caught the eye of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has been cracking down on fraud within the financial newsletter industry. The agency has hauled six market-advice publishers into court since 1981 on such charges as making false advertising claims and has launched administrative actions against a dozen more...