Word: frauds
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Mederos said the victims "fall for it because the individuals perpetrating the fraud are credible...
...difficult to overcome the shock value when the jury heard the words 'bubonic plague' and realized it was being sent through the mail." ?-Attorney George Luther in June 1997, on the 11th-hour decision of his client, anthrax attack suspect Larry Wayne Harris, to plead guilty to wire fraud...
Daily Spin "Easiest job ever!!!" --A brochure for nuclear-waste-eating "California Red Superworms" sold by a New Mexico man, Thomas Huntington, for $500 per 4 lbs. Huntington, 51, was arrested for multiple counts of fraud after convincing would-be entrepreneurs they could strike it rich breeding the worms for sale to nuclear-waste facilities...
...best hope at snagging the Clintons was still the claim by David Hale, a former Arkansas municipal judge, that Clinton had put improper pressure on him to okay a loan to Madison Guaranty, a charge Clinton denies. Jim McDougal also denied it before his May 1996 conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges. After that, as part of a deal for a lighter sentence, he changed his story. But that change makes McDougal an admitted perjurer--not the most effective witness against the President in any future trial. McDougal's ex-wife Susan has spent the last 17 months...
...Goldberg's spying on behalf of the 1972 Nixon re-election effort has been widely reported--and she left politics for the more lucrative world of publishing. It was no less a shark tank: tell-all biographer Kitty Kelley, a former client, sued Goldberg in the early 1980s for fraud and other infractions in connection with Kelley's biography of Elizabeth Taylor. Although a judge overturned the fraud portion of the jury verdict against Goldberg, he awarded Kelley $41,000 in damages and costs...