Word: illicitness
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...their competitors with nothing but bright memories. For every Larry Bird or Steffi Graf, there are at least 300 athletes with the odds firmly stacked against them. And for every Ben Johnson, there are a hundred others who are neither competitive nor affluent enough to boost their chances with illicit drugs. The Olympics, in fact, are a festival of underdogs: at least 130 of the nations that will compete in Barcelona will have the luxury of being in a can't-lose position -- expectations for them are so low that any achievement will be a triumph. And perhaps...
...good. So it was in the case of about 100 people -- including 82 pharmacists and a doctor -- arrested last week in 50 cities. Two of the conspirators had complained, in a phone call that was wiretapped, that they were running out of places to stash all the illicit cash they were taking in. With such evidence in hand, an army of more than 1,100 FBI agents and other federal law-enforcement officials ended the largest health-care fraud investigation to date. Under the complex scheme, medical professionals and their accomplices stole tens of millions of dollars from Medicaid...
...cull confidential information on companies and then used it to earn profits of $3.3 million in stock trades. Revson allegedly netted $1.7 million from improper tips he received from Downe. Others charged by the SEC are Steven Greenberg, a former public relations executive, who allegedly pocketed $550,000 in illicit profits; Thomas Warde, a real estate developer ($1 million); David Salamone, a business partner of Downe's ($4 million); and Milton Weinger, a stockbroker at Oppenheimer & Co. ($2.3 million). Fred Sullivan was charged only with passing sensitive information to outsiders while on the board of Tyler, an industrial- products manufacturer...
...Administration is withholding information about U.S. policy toward Iraq. One matter before the committee involves a Justice Department investigation into charges that, in exchange for kickbacks and other payoffs, officials at the Atlanta branch of one of Italy's largest banks, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, made $4 billion in illicit loans to Iraq. Those include $350 million in defaulted loans backed by Agriculture Department guarantees. Christopher Drogoul, former manager of the Atlanta office, is expected to plead guilty this week to charges of fraud and money laundering...
Richard M. Nixon's ascendance to the presidencyseemed to symbolize a dramatic shift to the right.His call for law and order was a thinly veileddeclaration of war on war protesters and youngpeople experimenting with illicit drugs...