Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joins a growing list of U.S. banks that have been victimized by unscrupulous employees. Earlier this year, California's Wells Fargo Bank was bilked out of some $21 million in a scam involving bogus transfers between branch offices, and last week reports surfaced of a $20 million loan fraud scheme at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City...
Beck's successor, Jimmy Hoffa, remained under almost continual federal investigation by the Justice Department. In 1964 he was convicted and sentenced to a total of 13 years in federal prison for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy in connection with pension-fund mismanagement. He began serving time in 1967 after his appeals...
...million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters; of cancer; in San Diego. Fitzsimmons, a Detroit truck driver when he joined the Teamsters in 1934, served as business manager and vice president of the chapter headed by Jimmy Hoffa. When Hoffa was jailed on charges of jury tampering, conspiracy and fraud in 1967, Fitzsimmons became caretaker-manager of the union and later president, in 1971 (see BUSINESS...
...estimates projecting that the Reagan plan would produce a balanced budget by 1984 instead of a $44.7 billion deficit. The plan assumes that there will be an additional but unspecified $22.7 billion in budget cuts by 1984, that $7.7 billion will be saved by reducing waste and fraud by then, and that the Defense Department will finance 40% of scheduled pay raises by attrition and freezing civilian employment. Complained Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum: "I don't think the way to balance the budget is by gimmicking up the figures." Still, this plan should gain easy approval in the Republican...
...rampage of resume fraud...