Word: illicited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court. The charges against him, however, are based not on actions he took in his official capacity but on steps he took to enhance his personal wealth. More important, the Justice Department argued, the Marcoses were being indicted because they plotted with Khashoggi and others to fraudulently conceal their illicit activities after they became U.S. residents. "There was no asylum agreement that Marcos could be just as big a crook in this country as he was in ((the Philippines))," says Loye Miller, spokeswoman for Attorney General Richard Thornburgh. "If he had been a good boy after...
...added that breaking into computer systems,although "illicit," is "the standard way of beinga journeyman in computer security...
...first banking company ever charged in the U.S. with money laundering: the Luxembourg-based Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the seventh largest privately held financial institution in the world (assets: $20 billion). Under a tough 1986 U.S. law, bank officials who knowingly conceal the source of illicit money can be fined up to $500,000 or twice the amount of the money they launder, and imprisoned for up to 20 years...
...bill, which passed through the Senate by an 87-3 vote, would create the oft-discussed cabinet-level position of drug "czar." It would also allow the death penalty against drug "kingpins," stregnthen penalties for both the use and sale of illicit drugs, and permit random testing for transportation and nuclear-industry workers...
...time the disk was run on a machine shared by other users, the code spread from one computer to another. Before long, the so- called Brain or Pakistani virus had found its way onto at least 100,000 floppy disks, sometimes with data-destroying impact. In each case the illicit program left behind a calling card for those savvy enough to find it: a message that began with the words WELCOME TO THE DUNGEON, and was signed by two men named Amjad and Basit...