Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flock of 15,000, Condo took in an estimated $2 million in three years while preaching an unusual gospel: since the U.S. dollar cannot be redeemed in gold or silver, it is therefore corrupt, therefore not "real," and therefore nobody owes any taxes. Finally charged with tax and mail fraud, Condo last June was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $92,000. He is still free on appeal, but the IRS, which estimates it lost up to $100 million in taxes evaded by his followers, happily reports that the several hundred people who used to attend his weekly...
Enemies-and Godfrey made many, especially among former employees-often labeled the Old Redhead's country-boy manner a fraud: he was born in Manhattan to a mother who was a frustrated concert singer and an improvident father who was a self-styled British aristocrat. Young Arthur dropped out of high school to support the family at odd jobs. He started in radio almost by accident, as a banjo player sponsored by a birdseed company on a station in Baltimore...
...firm's lawyers then got a call from an old law school friend whose firm was going to take over the company's legal work and wanted to see if there was anything he should know about the company. The first lawyer chose to keep silent about the fraud and, when the company later went bankrupt, the second firm lost...
Pharaon persuaded Swiss authorities to file a criminal indictment for fraud against Tannoury. Pharaon's advisers suspect that the Gaddafi "offer" and the Venezuelan connection were a hoax. Moreover, they believe Tannoury probably never matched Pharaon's investment and may have simply pocketed the sheik's $14 million...
...took three years, but the South African public finally learned in some detail last week how its government lost $30.5 million in what has been called the biggest maritime fraud in history. The disclosures were made during a three-hour parliamentary debate in Cape Town, after which the government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha tried to prevent both its critics and the press from discussing the matter any further. Its grounds: all information concerning South African purchases of oil, which are in contravention of a world embargo designed to block such sales, is a state secret...