Word: fraude
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...Rasputin of fraud. The straggly hair that frames his craggy Florentine features is a fright wig of deceit. His flamingo legs carry him with awkward zest from sin to sin, while his tongue utters unguentary lies. Yet we are too conscious that he is a self-aware villain, scoring stunning acting points without carrying complete emotional conviction. And Stefan Gierasch's Orgon is not quite the ideal foil. He seems more like an exacerbated paterfamilias who wants Tartuffe to cow his recalcitrant brood rather than a breathless gull hopelessly infatuated by a bogus saint...
...called Percy's "savage" suggestion in a hearing of the Senate committee on Sept. 9 that he might have backdated three checks in early Jan. 1977 in order to obtain improper tax deductions on his 1976 income tax returns. The Budget Director cited headlines linking him to tax fraud on the basis of Percy's statements. Lance convincingly explained that he had written the three checks on Dec. 31, 1976, as dated, but held them until the proceeds from a $250,000 sale of stock on Dec. 30, 1976, had been deposited in his bank. Moreover, he said...
Percy profusely apologized to Lance for causing him a Labor Day weekend of pain over the tax fraud reports-and fatuously claimed that he, too, had been appalled by the way the newspapers had interpreted his remarks. In fact, there was no other way Percy could have been read; he had, indeed, knowingly and quite precisely suggested that Lance may have intended to cheat on his income...
...fell into a series of haggles, Lance and his recently acquired attorney, Clark Clifford (see box), watched with faintly hidden amusement. Later, Missouri Democratic Senator Thomas Eagleton picked up the Lance line and harshly assailed Percy: "On September 9, Senator Percy gave every indication that Lance was a tax fraud cheat, and in his mellifluous tones he said well, you know, I am not saying directly that you are a tax cheat, I am saying inferences can be drawn therefrom. Yesterday, Senator Percy said, 'I apologize for any anguish I may have caused you over the weekend.' Marvelous...
...long, plodding investigation of Korean lobbying in the U.S. stepped up a notch last week. With much fanfare, the Justice Department released a previously sealed indictment charging Tongsun Park, the onetime Washington rice-and-influence broker, with 36 violations of federal statutes, including conspiracy to bribe Congressmen, mail fraud, illegal campaign gifts, and failure to register as an agent of the South Korean government. Hinting that more indictments might be coming, Attorney General Griffin Bell suggested coyly, "We'll have to see what the harvest will bring...