Word: frauds
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Remember the HUD scandal? After spending two years and $4 million, special prosecutor Arlin Adams last week landed his first indictment of a former top department official: Lance Wilson, once executive assistant to ex-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel Pierce. Citing Wilson on 24 counts of fraud, conspiracy and false statements, a federal grand jury charged him with conspiring, after he left HUD for an investment firm, to steer $46 million in grants intended for poor urban areas to three housing projects developed by his business partner, Texan Leonard Briscoe...
...that Keating is setting himself up in business anytime soon. Last month the former high-flying financier was convicted in a California court of securities fraud connected with the failure of Lincoln Savings & Loan, an A.C.C. subsidiary. Federal criminal charges followed, and when Keating claimed negative net worth, the judge reduced his $2 million bail to $300,000. The Feds have amassed a 77-count indictment that accuses Keating, and four others, of defrauding Lincoln of $250 million. Keating maintains his innocence on the charges. Oh, and the missing property has been returned to A.C.C...
...wept, but also that the purported theft had been an inside job. St. Irene's bishop, Vikentios of Avlon, who belongs to a breakaway branch of the church, retorted that he would file a $50 million defamation suit against the archdiocese. The police say they have no evidence of fraud. If St. Irene was not crying before...
Lyndon LaRouche. The wild-eyed libertarian, who has also run for the White House before, sent in his form from the federal prison in Alexandria, Va., where he is serving a 15-year sentence for mail fraud...
...What have you got? A soggy echo of The Ed Sullivan Show. Now mention the homeless to customers who paid $60 a ticket and add a row of chorines waving flags in the aftermath of a war. What have you got? A Tony Award. And a pious fraud...