Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, for instance, after I applied for a credit card at a consumer-electronics store, somebody got hold of my name and vital numbers and used them to get a duplicate card. That somebody ran up a $3,000 bill, but the nice lady from the fraud division of the credit-card company took care of it with steely digital dispatch. (I filed a short report over the phone. I never lost a cent...
...former real estate saleswoman, widow of a judge and mother of a prosecutor, Mary Ann Downs had far more financial and legal acumen than most aging fraud victims. Even so, con artists had little trouble scamming her out of $74,000. Why? How? Her story is a classic study in what makes fraud against elderly people, especially women, one of the biggest growth industries in America. Con men are bilking the elderly out of $40 billion a year, by one FBI estimate...
...this day she cannot really explain what happened. "I got into it, and I couldn't get out," she says simply. But she does admit she was terrified of telling her children. That anxiety keeps many other fraud victims falling for new scams in the hope of replacing some of the lost money so their sons and daughters will never know. Says Shelly Feldman, president of a Florida fraud-fighting organization called Senior Sleuths: "They're afraid their kids will say they can't handle their finances and they'll be put in a nursing home...
Fifteen months after getting locked up in a Wisconsin jail for mail fraud, the 69-year-old Democrat has been transferred to a Salvation Army halfway house on Chicago's West Side to serve out the remainder of his sentence...
PHOENIX: For six years Fife Symington has managed to battle on ? and even win reelection as Arizona's governor ? in the face of 21 counts of fraud relating to his real estate empire. For the last two months, he's even managed to balance the dual responsibilities of governor and defendent in a federal trial. Now, with the luck of the devil, he will survive in the statehouse for at least a few more days. U.S. District Judge Roger Strand added an alternate juror today, forcing the Republican Governor's trial to start all over again. The new juror replaces...