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Murder, kidnaping, hired guns, fraud, embezzlement, rake-offs, power struggles-sounds like gangland crime, Chicago-style. But according to accounts of a current union scandal, those are also the standard ingredients of the oil business, Mexican-style. The sordid revelations are the latest, and most titillating, evidence of the widespread corruption that flourished under President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's predecessor, José López Portillo. Last week Senator Ramón Martínez Martín, a former leader of the teachers' union, called for a complete investigation of the allegations of wrongdoing...
...entirely clear that, aside from applying the laws equally, registration should be made any easier. Good reasons still exist for many current regulations: When Carter at the conference proposed election-day registration, Susan Farmer, the Rhode Island Secretary of State, raised unanswerable concerns about the massive potential for voter fraud if groups were not allowed the time gap to challenge voter lists...
Most ironic of all is the fact that, in 1973, embezzlement alone cost society as much as all "crimes of the poor" combined. The same was true of income tax evasion and fraud. Each costs the public more than all burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft put together...
Wilson's claim that the "general public" doesn't care quite so much about theft, fraud, embezzlement and corporate murder is interesting on two levels. First, it suggests that some hard thinking about crime is needed; the far greater cost to society in dollars (and possibly in lost lives) is from crimes of the wealthy, yet they routinely escape notice...
...balky operating system of the computer to function while his infant firm ran up losses that totaled $1.2 million. Selden was forced to liquidate his business and sell the 200-year-old family farm to pay his debts. He is suing Honeywell for $6.4 million for "fraud, negligence and breach of contract." The trial began last week in federal district court in New York City...