Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emergency church meetings. "We need to talk," Lyons would say before launching into his explanation. But soon other skeletons emerged in the St. Petersburg Times and in the state investigation. In 1991 Lyons spent a year in a federal pretrial-intervention program to avoid being prosecuted on bank-fraud charges. His marriage certificate to Deborah says it was a first union for both; in fact it was his third. One ex-wife recently came forward with stories that he physically and emotionally abused her; another woman is claiming to be his illegitimate daughter. And Bernice Edwards, 40, is not quite...
...which went on for 81 days. Jury selection was completed in just one day, and prosecutors are already promising the jury videotapes that show the six defendants committing violent acts, carrying weapons and robbing two TV news crews. In May, the Freemen leaders will go on trial for bank fraud and a host of other charges; by then they'll be able to judge for themselves the merits of intransigence as a legal strategy...
...barf bags for the weak of mind and stomach. Trainers applauded bladder control and cursed those who didn't get it. Still, Erhard and his message proved popular, even winning celebrity advocates. Then, after two decades and two divorces, the self-help messiah vanished amid reports of tax fraud (which proved false and won him $200,000 from the IRS) and allegations of incest (which were later recanted...
Starr was poised, meanwhile, to flank Clinton on other fronts. Last week his team persuaded former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker to plead guilty in Little Rock to fraud in exchange for helping Starr with his probe of Clinton's Whitewater finances. Clinton and Tucker, onetime rivals, met at the White House in late 1993, just days before both men were named by federal banking regulators in criminal referrals to the Justice Department. Starr would like to know what the two men talked about in that session; both have described it as routine...
...bumbling ex-Governor may be on his way to prison for a fraud conviction, and the most popular future candidate is a Wild West sheriff with his own legal problems who rose to fame on the strength of such practices as dressing inmates in pink underwear. Exhibition baseball can't compete...