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...National Intelligence Service (SIN), have been virtually inseparable since 1992, when the President abruptly dissolved Congress for eight months and took near absolute power in order to fight--successfully, as it turned out--a Maoist insurgency that had brought the country to chaos. Ever since, charges of torture, fraud in last April's presidential election, and gunrunning have been leveled against SIN. They culminated two weeks ago with the broadcast of a videotape, apparently leaked from Montesinos' headquarters, showing the spy chief handing over a thick packet of cash to persuade an opposition legislator to switch his allegiance to Fujimori...
Lebed is the first minor the SEC has ever charged with securities fraud, and you may well ask, Isn't it one thing for a set of twentysomethings at work or in college to master the ole pump and dump, Net style, but quite another for a bona fide minor to get it down pat? Do we have a serious problem here...
...Lebed something of a hero in his hometown of Cedar Grove. "I'm proud of my son," quickly proclaimed his father Gregory Lebed, a railroad worker for Amtrak who drove up to his house last week in a forest-green Mercedes suv. Proud? Support you can understand. But mass fraud seems a strange accomplishment to crow about...
Conventional fraud investigations usually take six months to a year. But Internet fraud often wraps up in less than a week. The electronic trail is that clear--far easier to trace than the paper trail of the old economy. Last year Silicon Investor, based in Seattle and owned by Go2net, reprimanded Lebed for "violating the terms of his membership" (which can mean anything from spamming to being abusive to going "off topic" on message boards). The last time he posted a message to the site was July 17, 1999. He then apparently gave up and moved to the less regulated...
...Last week Kostunica was only a hopeful president-elect. While his supporters filled the streets shouting that Milosevic was finished, their nemesis still sat in his White Palace, as Belgrade dubs his official seat of power. He's used vote fraud, trumped-up crises and constitutional finagling to stay in power before. Serbs were finally brave enough to cast their votes against him. To get him out of his palace for good, they may have to take his power into their own hands...