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...there's nothing bland or diffident about Mueller's sharp, commanding style, formed on the hockey rinks of St. Paul's and Princeton and as a Marine officer on the front line in Vietnam. Confronted with a range of high-profile cases, from the BCCI bank fraud scandal to the Pan Am 103 terrorism investigation, he proved so decisive and careless of controversy that at one point, his deputy Dave Margolis warned him gently that if he didn't choose his battles, Washington might bang him up as it had done to so many of his predecessors...
...energies slamming against seemingly interminable captivity in the hands of my parents' obsessions, parents' errors, parents' judgments.... and in the hands, as well, of my own ardent and melodramatic ignorance of the world, and of what I was, or might be. Anyone who would sentimentalize adolescence either is a fraud or has a bad memory...
...April the FBI cracked a Russian ring and charged a pair of its members with conspiracy and fraud. The hackers were also allegedly involved in website "spoofing." Federal officials said the Russians tried to create a counterfeit website mimicking the real home page of PayPal, the popular online fund-transfer service. PayPal has been hit with such spoofs several times. When a fake site was operating, hackers e-mailed PayPal users and got them to click on a hyperlink with the spoof site's domain name: www.paypai.com On many computers, a capital I looks identical...
...lesson, because someone I didn't know had already stolen my identity. At first I just kind of vaguely noticed that I wasn't getting my American Express bills anymore, which at the time just seemed like a good thing. Then I got a call from the AmEx fraud department asking me about some charges on my Optima card. I had never used my Optima card. It's just one of many credit cards I ordered because I got frequent-flyer miles for signing up. I would agree to just about anything for miles...
...them was J.T. Lundy, former head of the famous Calumet Farms who was sentenced last year to 4 1/2 years in prison for bank fraud. Lundy had given Roger Clinton a job at his Kentucky race horse stud farm after Clinton served a prison term in the 1980s for dealing cocaine. By late 1999, Lundy began asking Clinton for help - even before his trial began. Sources told TIME he suggested Roger try to help delay legal action until the final days of the Clinton presidency, a time in which presidents usually grant pardons...