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...judge in Massachusetts ordered the firm to cease operating and placed it in receivership. Many questions remain as to why the regulators did not investigate and act sooner. Although the CFTC denied the firm registration, Lloyd, Carr continued its operations for several months while challenging a shutdown order. Criminal fraud was never an issue during that period. However, some critics maintain that the CFTC withheld evidence that hampered state investigations. At week's end the only response from embarrassed CFTC officials was that they were not changing operational methods. As for the elusive Abrahams: Criminal Lawyer F. Lee Bailey...
...obstruction of justice in a case involving influence peddling to help students gain admission to medical schools. Just last month the most powerful member of the state senate, Philadelphia Democrat Henry J. Cianfrani. pleaded guilty to 106 counts on various charges-including obstruction of justice, tax evasion and mail fraud-involving efforts to place his girlfriend and others in no-show jobs on the senate appropriations committee...
...exact amount to give them (with Barasch's business card enclosed). The only officials he did not advise bribing were police because, he said, "if you pay off a cop, they keep coming around every month, like flies, looking for a payoff." As for tax fraud, explained Barasch: "Everybody chisels down." A squat man with a nervous twitch who calls himself "the second largest tax accountant in the Midwest after H & R Block," Barasch has done more chiseling, says the Sun-Times, than Michelangelo...
...Cape Cod seashore community, in the 1660's. Lawrence D. Shubow, attorney for the Indians, summed up his case Tuesday saying, "Don't deny these people their identity. They have been fighting for this identity for 350 years. Are you going to say 'You've been a living fraud...
...sanatorium ("For the busy man who doesn't have time for a midlife crisis"), where he can indulge himself as "a born-again atheist," a man torn between two continents, who should be buried in the Azores under a cruciform credit card. He sees himself as a fraud, "TV's Amazing Thinking Man who speaks in little bite-sized paragraphs...cursed with a special sound, which disappears in a twinkling if he listens to other people too long...