Word: frauds
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RELEASED. WEBSTER HUBBELL, 49, longtime Clinton friend and former Justice Department official; from a federal halfway house; after serving more than a year in prison for tax evasion and mail fraud. Hubbell is still linked to continuing investigations of Whitewater and Democratic fund-raising activities...
...resigned in March 1994 amid allegations that he had bilked his clients and partners out of thousands of dollars at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he once worked with Mrs. Clinton. By August 1995, Clinton's close friend was in jail, serving 21 months for fraud...
...government on the company's behalf, according to a Time Warner executive. Hubbell earned $5,000 for a month's work and ended the relationship when he learned in late November that he was the target of a criminal investigation. In early December 1994 he pleaded guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion...
TOKYO: Former Sumitomo trader Yasuo Hamanaka, whose staggering losses roiled the world's metal markets and raised serious questions about how Japanese firms are run went on trial Monday and, as expected, pled guilty. Hamanaka is charged with forgery and fraud that left his firm $2.6 billion in the hole. Prosecutors say Hamanaka forged the signatures of two of his superiors to cover his massive trading losses, swindling a Sumitomo subsidiary out of $770 million. Sumitomo's star trader is the only person charged and faces up to 15 years in prison. British and U.S. investigators are continuing separate probes...
...Yorker magazine, McDougal now backs David Hale's story that Clinton pressured him to make a $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal. That's a departure from what both McDougal and Clinton testified under oath last year, when McDougal and former Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker were convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from the Whitewater investigation. In videotaped testimony, Clinton denied any memory of making such a loan, and White House spokesman Mike McCurry says the President stands by his testimony. Why did the Arkansas businessman recant and open himself up to perjury charges? According to ex-wife...