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...selling stocks based on advance knowledge of the stories' likely impact on prices. At the time, Winans, 36, described his role in the scheme as "stupid" and "wrong." Last week the Justice Department contended that what he did was also criminal and brought a 61-count indictment for fraud and conspiracy against him and two alleged collaborators. The charges rely on an unusual and, to many journalists, perturbing legal theory: that Winans had a "duty" not only to his editors but to his readers to disclose his interests in the stocks he discussed...
...South, announced he was resigning his three-week-old job as general chairman of the campaign. On the eve of the party's convention last month, Mondale had tapped Jimmy Carter's former Budget Director, who had been indicted and then cleared of charges of bank fraud, to head the Democratic National Committee. When a storm of protest blew up over the choice, Lance was shifted to an ill-defined political post. The nominee made no attempt to dissuade the disheartened Georgian from quitting...
...tung. City officials admit to only 20,000 unemployed, but the real figure is believed to be two to three times higher. Unemployment has led to a wave of petty thefts and burglaries, and the scarcity of many consumer goods has fostered various kinds of corruption, bribery, smuggling, fraud...
...commonly understood, when he responded to Weinberger with the following remark, quoted in the Washington Post. "I think we do a great service to our national security," he said. "By publicizing the report and spotlighting it, maybe we'll get some attention to the waste and fraud...
...William Webster to ask about the status of U.S. interest in the case. Wilson was also sternly warned by the State Department in December 1983 to avoid involvement in the case of Commodities Trader Marc Rich, who fled to Switzerland after being indicted in one of the biggest tax-fraud cases in U.S. history. Yet shortly after, Wilson met with a Swiss official on Rich's behalf...