Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Detectives quickly excluded the Notarnicola family as suspects. In nearby New Rochelle, Secret Service agents arresting three suspects for credit-card fraud inadvertently discovered a letter threatening further poisonings unless the three were paid $2 million. Investigators believed the note was a fraud, an attempt to cash in on a tragic situation, as happened after the Chicago killings, when Con Man James W. Lewis went to prison for ten years for sending a $1 million extortion note to Johnson & Johnson...
Meanwhile, in Manila, Marcos said yesterday that sore losers and "modern-day imperialists" in foreign capitals are trying to taint his election victory. The critics he castigated say he won by fraud...
...Senate and European Parliament have passed resolutions accusing Marcos of election fraud, and criticism has come from the Reagan administration and other governments...
...embattled Marcos had drawn a rare bit of strength from Reagan's initial evenhanded remarks. Marcos' opponents were said to be dispirited by the suggestion of fraud in challenger Corazon Aquino's camp...
Solarz said he had been assured by an intermediary earlier in the day that the legislation has the support of presidential opposition candidate Corazon Aquino, who has charged that fraud by Marcos and his supporters deprived her of victory in the Feb. 7 election...