Word: frauds
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Arizona Governor Evan Mecham has faced charges of incompetence, racism and impropriety since he took office in 1987. Last week he faced more serious allegations of criminality. A grand jury indicted him on two counts of fraud and one count of filing a false report about a $350,000 loan to his 1986 < election campaign from a Tempe real estate developer. The Governor also faces three counts of perjury for not listing the loan on financial disclosure statements...
...Americans, who love a winner, detest thinking of themselves as losers, and they saw themselves distinctly as losers after Tet. Metaphysically, they may have thought that if America was a loser, God's grace had been withdrawn, or possibly was never there; the entire American idea turned into a fraud...
...widening Wedtech scandal last week rippled closer to Attorney General Edwin Meese. In New York City, U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani produced indictments charging an old Meese friend, his investment counselor and a former Wedtech adviser with racketeering and fraud. Among their alleged crimes: extracting illegal payments from Wedtech for trying to get Meese to help the ailing, minority-owned, Bronx-based construction firm...
Confounding predictions of a neck- and- neck race, the ruling party candidate handily wins a five- year presidential term amid charges of fraud. -- Facing the worst riots in 20 years, the Israeli military comes down hard on Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza. -- Reagan' s quest to secure new aid for the contras gets an inadvertent boost from Nicaragua' s Ortega brothers...
...reporter who leaked advance information about his stories to brokers. The court ruled that improper use of inside information amounted to theft of property and that defendants could be tried under the Government's sweeping antifraud laws. The decision, says Giuliani, has "made it easier for prosecutors to bring fraud cases without fear that they will be reversed." Edward Brodsky, a Manhattan- based securities attorney, agrees: "The court gave the prosecution an absolute sledgehammer for inside-information cases...