Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...returned to England from Australia to investigate the disappearance of funds from her bank account. In January, after telephoning a friend to say that she was in Ireland with a man, she vanished. In June, Lancashire police arrested Terry's 30-year-old traveling companion and charged him with fraud related to her $48,500 savings account...
...Attorney General reported on the government's ability to collect court- ordered restitution in S&L fraud cases, using Dallas as an example. In fiscal 1989 just $2,700 was paid of the $3.1 million ordered by the courts. This year $2.5 million has been ordered. The take...
...facing the possibility of 20 years behind bars, John Mulheren was remarkably philosophical. "You win some, you lose some," said the fallen Wall Street arbitrager last week after a Manhattan jury found him guilty on four felony counts of securities fraud and conspiracy. The seven-week trial of the former head of the Jamie Securities stock-trading firm was the latest featuring a former business associate of confessed insider trader Ivan Boesky -- and the first featuring public testimony by Boesky...
...opened, Republicans have been feigning shock -- shock! -- that any gambling was going on at all. The Administration has belatedly been making a great show of prosecuting the most egregious offenders. Just last week the government charged high-profile Dallas thrift owner Edwin McBirney III with 17 counts of bank fraud. Cleaning up the mess at his Sunbelt Savings Association of Texas, which was taken over by regulators in 1986, has so far cost $2 billion...
...executive James Fail. In 1988 Wall allowed Fail to acquire 15 insolvent Texas S&Ls in exchange for $1,000 in cash and $70 million in borrowed money, and threw in $1.85 billion to cover the liabilities of the bankrupt thrifts. Fail in 1976 had been indicted for securities fraud in Alabama. Though the charge against Fail was dropped, a company he controlled pleaded guilty to fraud. According to federal regulations, that should have disqualified Fail...