Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years the organization of Political Extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. has evaded payment of $21 million in fines imposed for ignoring subpoenas in the Government's credit-card fraud investigation of LaRouche's operations. Exasperated, the U.S. got inventive. Without informing LaRouche's lawyers, U.S. attorneys persuaded a federal judge to put three of LaRouche's outfits into involuntary bankruptcy. Next day U.S. marshals seized companies and offices nationwide, a rare Government use of a creditor's bankruptcy confiscation rights...
Thus far, four former Wedtech executives, including Chairman Neuberger, the former treasurer, the chief financial officer and a senior vice president, have pleaded guilty to a range of charges, including bribery and mail fraud. Mariotta, booted out of the company in February 1986, has not been indicted...
...offered immunity in the Navy's attempt to build its case against Lonetree but that Bracy had refused to accept it. Navy investigators concede that their cases have been built largely with lie detectors and must be strengthened. Kunstler goes further: "The case is a consummate hype and fraud," he charged. "They're trying to make Clayton and, I suspect, Bracy too scapegoats for their lax supervision." He said he wants the case taken away from the military and handled in federal courts, where, unlike a court-martial, there is no death penalty for peacetime espionage. "They want to hang...
Through the course of the play, Tam and his Japanese sidekick, "Blackjap" Kenji (Edward Park), confront the disappointing reality behind their romantic conceptions of both white and Black America. In a comically surreal dream sequence their childhood hero, the Lone Ranger, is exposed as a heroine-addicted, racist fraud. Their long-awaited meeting with Ovaltine's Black trainer, Charley Popcorn, proves disillusioning as well--offended by their Black mannerisms, the old man dismisses the duo as a pair of insane "yellow negroes...
...heighten a shrewdly earthbound interpretation. Her Arcati is not dotty or otherworldly. She is a coarse, calculating businesswoman, a vulgar social climber, a tiresome, self-absorbed frump who just happens to be a medium with the gift of raising the dead. Her manner is so much the grasping fraud that the audience is stunned when she delivers the goods. Indeed, she is stunned herself: there are few funnier sights than Page striding across the stage in pursuit of a ghost whose presence she senses but cannot see, snuffling at the wraith's ectoplasm like a spaniel who just knows...