Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report relates how the private fund raisers Carl Channell and Richard Miller collected some $10 million for contra support but spent only $4.5 million on the rebel forces. The rest of the money went into lavish offices, fancy limousines and high salaries. The two have pleaded guilty to tax fraud for claiming that their operations were entitled to an IRS exemption...
Although he succeeded the redoubtable Spiro Agnew as Governor, Marvin Mandel achieved notoriety of his own in the annals of Maryland corruption. Ten years ago he was stripped of his office after his conviction on charges of mail fraud, which involved taking $380,000 in bribes from five political associates. Mandel served 19 months of a three-year prison term before President Reagan commuted the sentence in 1981. Throughout the ordeal, he maintained his innocence...
Last week a federal district judge in Baltimore overturned his conviction. Judge Frederic Smalkin based his opinion on a Supreme Court ruling last June that the federal mail-fraud statute should not be invoked in cases of government corruption. If upheld on appeal, the decision could clear Mandel's criminal record and compensate the former Governor and his co-defendants for thousands of dollars in fines...
...Corp., purportedly to revamp a sawmill. The owner of the mill, Rancher William Crone, testified that almost none of the $375,000 was used for its designated purpose. Embarrassed opic officials conceded that collateral for the loan was valueless and said they had asked the Justice Department for a fraud investigation. Senate probers suspect the money was used to finance some of the covert operations that North described during the Iran-contra hearings...
...sent a letter to Harvard's 200,000 alumni warning them against electing "single-issue" candidates to the Board. When it was later revealed that the letter had come at the request of President Bok, the four alumni filed a complaint charging Derek Bok with "constructive fraud" in hiding hisinvolvement in the letter...