Word: frauds
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...Harvard, but declined to accept his $5000 honorarium. Four months later his son received a scholarship at the Kennedy School for approximately $5000. This seemingly obscure data caused a major furor in Sweden this summer as members of the Swedish news media charged the Prime Minister had committed tax fraud by backhandedly trying to secure the scholarship for his son. Opponents of Palme charged that by refusing a highly taxable fee for the speech, he intended to defer the money for a tax-free study grant for his son. Both Palme and Kennedy School officials denied the allegations and said...
...Falwell's Thomas Road Church was packing in 20,000 people through five Sunday services. As the money poured in, his financial managers got overambitious and the Securities and Exchange Commission accused them of illegally selling unsecured church bonds out of state. Charged with fraud and deceit, Falwell agreed to sell no more bonds, and the charges were dropped...
...political concern last week. In an unlikely alliance with Civil Rights Leader Joseph Lowery and other clergy, he joined another press conference in Washington to decry alleged U.S. Government interference in religious freedoms. The group also contended that Cult Leader Sun Myung Moon had been railroaded in his tax-fraud conviction...
CONVICTED. R. Foster Winans, 36, former Wall Street Journal reporter, on 59 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, and mail and wire fraud, for using advance knowledge of his paper's stories to make illicit profits in the stock market; in New York City. Winans had passed along information about future stories to former Kidder, Peabody Stockbrokers Peter Brant, who previously pleaded guilty to similar charges, and Kenneth P. Felis, who was found guilty last week on 41 counts. Of the $675,000 in profits, $31,000 was funneled to Winans through his longtime roommate, David J. Carpenter, who was convicted...
...demanding to know why reporters and photographers had not tried to stop the killers or even summon the police. Japan's largest daily, Yomiuri Shimbun, criticized the journalists for putting their professional duties before humanitarian concerns, adding that "the mass media should search their souls." The suspect in another fraud investigation decided he was not taking any chances. The day after Nagano's murder, he surrendered to Tokyo police and was safely put behind bars...