Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then on September 30, experts identified the handwriting on the last threatening note as Grace's. Grace admitted to the fraud and withdrew from school...
...Saxon's apparent swindle gone undetected for two years? Incredibly, no government agency at the state or federal level has clear-cut authority to regulate bullion dealers. The FBI and state or local police normally enter such cases only after complaints of fraud are brought by the victims. By that time, it is usually too late for help. Contends Abrams: "These are interstate frauds that cry out for federal regulation...
Murder, kidnaping, hired guns, fraud, embezzlement, rake-offs, power struggles-sounds like gangland crime, Chicago-style. But according to accounts of a current union scandal, those are also the standard ingredients of the oil business, Mexican-style. The sordid revelations are the latest, and most titillating, evidence of the widespread corruption that flourished under President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's predecessor, José López Portillo. Last week Senator Ramón Martínez Martín, a former leader of the teachers' union, called for a complete investigation of the allegations of wrongdoing...
...García thought he was safe in Texas, he soon learned otherwise. According to McAllen police, two thugs kidnaped García at gunpoint early last month and spirited him to Mexico. There he was handed over to Mexican authorities, who slapped him behind bars on fraud charges. Garcia told officials that he feared for his life, probably with good reason. The day after his jailing, another union boss, Oscar Torres Pancardo, was killed in a mysterious crash. In an apparent attempt to disguise the circumstances, his bodyguards fatally shot Torres' driver in the head. At a rare...
...ground for vice. Since coming to office last year, De la Madrid has pursued a vigorous "moral renovation" campaign aimed at stemming the high-level graft that was rampant in Mexico. Last July a judge had former Pemex Director Jorge Díaz Serrano arrested on a $34 million fraud charge. Contrary to custom, Díaz Serrano was not bailed out by political friends, but still sits in Mexico City's Southern Penitentiary, awaiting trial...