Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Graves, and inches away, Jack Ruby's snub-nose pistol. An instant later, as Oswald collapsed, fatally wounded, Graves grabbed Ruby's gun, preventing him from getting off a second shot. Graves left the Dallas police force in 1970; for the rest of his career he worked as a fraud investigator for a bank and resisted efforts to cash in on his link to the bitter events of November...
Several alternatives to the "Brother, can you spare a dime" scenario could arise. It is unlikely that beggars will purchase credit card readers so that their daily clients can simply slide through for a $.25 transfer. Even if the technology was easily portable, too many methods of perpetrating electronic fraud exist to make the system trustworthy...
...There's an open invitation to fraud here," Samp says. "The thing we worry about is a social worker saying to a client, 'if we can get more money here, we can do this for you and this for you,' relating that to a political party...
...bail to await formal indictments and trials, several set up in Miami. Among them: - Ricardo Cisneros, a former Banco Latino director who with his brother Gustavo runs Grupo Cisneros, a multibillion-dollar conglomerate that owns, among other things, the Spalding sporting-goods company. Cisneros, who is charged with fraud, contends that he did not serve on the management team that ran the bank's daily business and thus knew nothing of any improprieties. Gustavo, who has not been implicated in the scandal, told that his brother was ``an outside director who got minimal information and wasn't a member...
Will anyone wind up in jail? A year has elapsed since the scandal broke, and not a single individual has been formally indicted. Norys Aguirre, president of the State Deposits Guarantee Fund, which runs the nationalized banks, insists that charges will indeed be brought against those accused of fraud. Most of the money will never be recovered, she says, adding that in the long run, ``the people of Venezuela will pay, with inflation and more taxes. We're all going to pay.'' Reported by Greg Aunapu/Miami and Mary Matheson/Caracas