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...found 60 volumes of diaries written by Adolf Hitler, which he had actually forged himself; of cancer; in Stuttgart. The diaries, which he sold to a German magazine for $4.8 million, were exposed as fakes a few days after the first excerpts were published. He was found guilty of fraud and spent three years in prison...
...your good name can cost a lot more in terms of time and expense. Enter companies like Travelers and Chubb, which now offer identity-theft insurance. The policies cover a broad range of costs--from legal fees to lost wages. To learn more about how to protect yourself from fraud, visit www.consumer.gov...
FATF was not the first group to home in on Liechtenstein's peccadillos. Last May the nation of 32,000 people was shaken to learn that Austrian police called in by the government had detained four men on suspicion of fraud, misuse of funds and money laundering. The four, who were subsequently released from jail uncharged, included Gabriel Marxer, a legislator in the 25-member parliament, and Rudolf Ritter, brother of Deputy Prime Minister Michael Ritter. Legislators agreed to lift Marxer's parliamentary immunity to allow him to be detained. In a separate action, police searched and carted away documents...
...therefore opt for a runoff election, preferring to suppress some of his opponent's vote tally rather than inflate his own so that neither man registers more than 49 percent. Milosevic, also, is far from lacking in the requisite cynicism required to simply use opposition charges of widespread ballot fraud as an excuse to call another election. And if he does play for time, the temptation may prove overwhelming to distract the electorate by fomenting another confrontation with NATO, either in Kosovo or Montenegro...
Wolf, meanwhile, now seeks her third term as state representative for the district that produced two speakers of the House in Massachusetts: Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr.--who was later Speaker of the U.S. House--and Charles F. Flaherty, who resigned in 1996 after pleading guilty to tax fraud. Flaherty had held the district for three decades...