Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote of 6 to 2, the Court had blocked the Government's long campaign to send Gambler Costello, 73, back to his native Italy. It was six years ago that Costello was stripped of his citizenship on the grounds that he had obtained naturalization through fraud, that he had listed his occupation as real estate when it really was gambling and bootlegging. After that, the Justice Department moved to deport Costello on the theory that two previous convictions for income tax evasion made him vulnerable to a statute that permits the ouster of an alien found guilty...
...lined with sheet metal, offered cures for almost all the ills of civilization and of the body; it was also widely believed to act, for the person sitting inside it, as a powerful sex stimulant. Hundreds of people hopefully bought it before the U.S. Government declared the device a fraud in 1954 and jailed its inventor. And yet, in a special sense, Dr. Reich may have been a prophet. For now it sometimes seems that all America is one big Orgone...
...liquidation; the company was fined $500 and forced to refund the price of all its unfilled orders. And more action is on the way. The F.T.C. plans to take steps against another operator next month, and the' U.S. Post Office is seeking indictments of two others for fraud and misrepresentation...
...setting up such mail order firms is the brainchild of George Campion, 37, now the president of California's American Claims Adjusters. Campion has worked through several differently named liquidator firms since he began several years ago, has a long string of arrests for petty crimes and fraud. Investigators suspect some kind of informal link between Campion and his many copiers...
Such large awards are rare, though insurance companies claim that the highly publicized examples raise the average size of all awards and settlements. What bothers the underwriters more than the occasional big payoff is the widespread evidence of fraud. In one macabre conspiracy, a Los Angeles man arranged to have a friend push his car off a cliff, smash both his legs with a padded brick, and place him and his drugged wife beside the wreck. "No one would ever believe that I was crazy enough," boasted the man; the plot was uncovered-and the conspirators jailed-only because...