Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Does getting paid for doing homework while watching a sporting event sound like fraud...
...codes, Gabriel Taylor, 27, electronically transferred the money from accounts belonging to Merrill Lynch, United Airlines and Brown-Forman distillers to accounts that some of the conspirators had set up under assumed names at two banks in Vienna. Before the gang could collect its loot, First Chicago discovered the fraud and alerted the FBI, which last week located the money and arrested Taylor and six alleged coconspirators on charges connected with illegal wire transfers. But the embezzlers came tantalizingly close to succeeding and showed how vulnerable banks and their vast computerized cash-movement networks can be to a dishonest insider...
...this scheme, though, the apparent mastermind was an outsider: Armand Moore, 33, a burly ex-con from Detroit who called himself "the Chairman." Moore was paroled from Minnesota's Sandstone federal prison in 1986 after serving four years of an eleven-year term for fraud. In 1982 he created a Chicago "bank," actually a telephone answering service, and issued himself letters of personal credit. So convincing were these documents that ten air- charter companies leased planes to Moore, who used them to take off on cross- country shopping sprees. By the time he was caught, he owed...
Trouble started when the Bush forces refused to seat some Robertson delegates. "Fraud!" yelled Robertson Leader Richard Hines, triggering a rush toward the podium. As bodies tumbled from the stage, Sheriff Arthur Johnson, a Democrat, restored calm by confronting the factions with a personal point of order: "If there's any trouble, I will fill my jail...
...sums sought by irate debtors are approaching bank-busting sizes. Brothers Herbert, Lamar and Nelson Hunt of Texas are suing a consortium of 22 U.S. and foreign banks for $1.5 billion, charging that the lenders committed fraud and conspiracy to force their silver-and-oil empire into bankruptcy...