Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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...
Maryland's Mandel is found guilty of fraud and racketeering
...crime while in office.* Barring a successful appeal, he will have to move out of the mansion and leave office by Oct. 7, the date set for his sentencing (the maximum possible punishment: 105 years in prison and a fine of $42,000) on 17 counts of mail fraud and one count of racketeering...
...added the banks to his hit list. "For more than a year," he said, "the SEC withheld and covered up the fact that the banks secretly dumped city securities from their own portfolios on the market. If verified, the banks' actions constitute a fraud against the city and its people...