Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claims to have wooed and wed over the past 20 years, some of them more than once and all without benefit of intervening divorces. A jury of eight men and four women, impressed with his stamina but not his style, last week convicted Vigliotto on charges of bigamy and fraud in his marriage to Patricia Ann Gardiner, 42, a Mesa, Ariz., real estate agent...
...office in Bolivia last October, President François Mitterrand's government decided to try again. This time the Bolivians agreed to cooperate. In an apparent effort to pave the way for Barbie's expulsion, Bolivian police picked him up on Jan. 25 and charged him with fraud in connection with a $10,000 loan from the state. Barbie immediately repaid the debt, plus interest, but it did him little good. Instead of releasing him, Bolivian officials put him on a plane bound for Cayenne, the capital of French Guiana. When told he had been handed over...
...child, thus granting Malahoff his money back, along with an end to a story nobody wanted to hear in the first place, one that, when it was finally played out, involved an array of several unattractive personalities, a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, the specter of baby selling, the suspicion of fraud and deception, and a tasteless denouement on a television talk show, where the M.C. spoke of "renting a womb...
...sharply from communism after being immersed in the Soviet system all his life. He came to believe that a pluralistic society based on human rights was the only system which would yield the ends he desired, and that Soviet communist society could not. "Communist ideology is not a complete fraud," he writes. "It arose from a striving for truth and justice, like other religious, ethical and philosophical systems. But the totalitarian structure of the government, he adds, has led the nation to "the deepest historical dead...
...STING II bears virtually no resemblance to the original. so the use of that title to draw in the unsuspecting could be considered a fraud. The movie itself unquestionably constitutes a far greater crime. The film lacks not only the cast and characters of its predecessor, but even the slightest touch of the other's elusive quality which can only he described as class...