Word: frauds
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...busy time for justice. Chicago commodity traders indicted for cheating the public . . . Leona Helmsley facing 20 years in a Holiday Inn (the logical sentence) if convicted of tax fraud -- it's hard not to be interested in these cases, but equally hard to have any impact on their outcome. How refreshing, then, to hear of a case, however small, in which one of us -- specifically, my pal Joey -- gets to be judge and jury. This is the story of Joey's revenge. It could save you a few bucks, or perhaps even earn you a first-class upgrade...
Recently, few have felt the sting of RICO as much as the denizens of Wall Street. Federal prosecutors have used the law to go after big names like former junk-bond maestro Michael Milken, who is expected to be tried early next year on charges involving securities fraud. Two weeks ago, several executives of Princeton/Newport Partners were convicted for their roles in illegal stock-trading schemes. Two days later, the Justice Department indicted 46 traders at the Chicago Board of Trade and the Mercantile Exchange, 18 of them on RICO charges. And just last week the law was used...
Chief among them is the Biblical Archaeology Review of Washington, a well- regarded layman's magazine, which has long berated the team for unconscionable foot dragging. In the latest issue, editor Herschel Shanks brands the new timetable "a hoax and a fraud." Shanks insists that "the scrolls will never be published by the current team" because the task is too huge. The squabbling should make for heated talk at a conference of scrolls experts later this month in the Netherlands...
...spectacular failure of some billion-dollar LBOS dramatizes the problems that could befall a number of overextended companies in the event of a slump. -- After a 2 1/2-year undercover probe, the Justice Department indicts 46 Chicago commodities traders on charges ranging from fraud to racketeering. -- A shortsighted proposal to cut capital-gains taxes gathers momentum...
...game had to produce results to keep their wealthy backers interested, and Herbert makes it clear that Peary feigned a "farthest north" record at about the time Cook, astonishingly, was counterfeiting a first ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley). To what degree Peary admitted to himself that he was a fraud is unknown. So is the extent to which Matthew Henson, his unswerving black assistant, understood the fudging. Herbert writes sympathetically of all these voyagers, whose real accomplishments were extraordinary. They were married to the Arctic, and perhaps the truth of the matter was that if they had to fake triumphs...