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...money diverted to Starsky and Hutch was supposed to be returned to Charlie's Angels when S&H was canceled. And that, apparently, is what has been happening. All transactions were duly recorded, Van De Kamp notes, and there was none of the secrecy-"the badges of fraud"-that usually indicates criminality. Yet a few questions remained. Nowhere does the report explain, for example, Sunderland's statement that the exclusivity gimmick was a device to cheat the Wagners...
DIED. John S. Pennington, 56, who as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal revealed vote fraud in a 1962 Georgia state senate race and turned the apparent loser into a winner, giving Jimmy Carter his first political victory; of cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Only two months ago, Carter told Pennington, who moved to the St. Petersburg Times in 1977: "I never would have gone for office again if I had lost that...
...history, the national financial police, the paramilitary Guardia di Finanza, has always been regarded as a singular bastion of rectitude. Thus when retired General Raffaele Giudice, the Guardia's esteemed commander from 1974 to 1978, was recently jailed as a suspected ringleader in a $2.2 billion oil-tax fraud, it was rather like discovering that Michelangelo painted by numbers. Last week, as the scandal spread, four other high-ranking Guardia officers were put under investigation, and Giudice's former chief of staff disappeared before he could be served with an arrest warrant...
...billion, or 2% of the total, out of the current fiscal 1981 budget, even though it will have already been in effect for four months by the time the new Administration takes office. Simon says that there is "still plenty of fat" in that budget, including unspecified items of "fraud, abuse and waste" that, he says, amount to $100 billion. Once the fat is sliced away, goes the argument, Reagan can move to honor his pledge to cut personal income taxes by 10% a year for three years. This can scarcely be inflationary, Simon maintains, "because the economy is turning...
...leave. And his close relationship with the staunchly anticapitalist Cuba did not encourage foreign investors. Manley has so frightened Jamaican businessmen that they, too, have transferred their holdings abroad. For Manley to blam the outflow of capital which he instigated for his country's economic woes is simply a fraud...