Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later years. At least 22 civil suits have been filed against the church by former members who claimed to have been swindled, harassed and even kidnaped. A court in Australia has revoked Scientology's status as a religion, and one in France has convicted Hubbard, in absentia, of fraud...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Postal Service and U.S. Attorney William F. Weld, a Republican whom White accuses of being politically motivated. While the mayor has not been directly implicated, 13 city employees in the past two years have been indicted on various charges, including fraud and corruption. Two are doing federal time...
...bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada, he was not exactly breaking with Teamster tradition. In 1957 the union's president, David Beck, was found guilty of embezzlement, larceny and income tax evasion. Beck's successor, Jimmy Hoffa, got 13 years in 1964 for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Williams, 67, had thrice before escaped federal conviction. Said Chief Government Prosecutor Douglas R. Roller after the verdict, "The message of the jury is clear. Such conduct will not be tolerated...
...pervasive has credit-card fraud become that law-enforcement officials have identified several illegal organizations operating throughout the U.S. One is known as the Nigerian Credit Card Ring because most of its members come from that nation. They do not use other people's credit, but rather specialize in getting then-own by using phony information, even phony references, and mail drops...
Belatedly, card issuers and merchants are organizing. Tens of thousands of stores are displaying black and red stop-sign decals with "fraud" printed on them, warning potential perpetrators that the business has been visited by a traveling team of anticrime experts. Visa, which has 65 million U.S. cardholders, hired former San Francisco FBI Division Chief William Newman in June to organize a professional security team...