Word: koch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feigned distress. Minutes after Bill Clinton won the New York food fight last Tuesday, Republican Party chairman Rich Bond gleefully recalled Jerry Brown's characterization of Clinton as "the prince of sleaze." They've "got them all on tape," says Bond. "Paul Tsongas calling Clinton a 'Pander Bear'; Ed Koch saying, 'It happens that Bill Clinton has no credibility'; Mario Cuomo calling Clinton's middle-class tax cut 'a joke.' We've got 'em, and you'll be seeing 'em. It ain't gonna be pretty...
...diet best sellers," says Stuart Applebaum of Bantam Books. Another reflection of the changing standards: makers of liquid and powder diets are avoiding bone-thin models and choosing heftier people to hawk their products. TV host Cristina Ferrare, Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda and ex-New York City mayor Ed Koch hardly qualify as sylphs...
Calling Robert John Koch a ladies' man is an understatement. Police say Koch, 51, is the "Sweetheart Swindler," a cunning con man who left broken hearts and empty bank accounts across the country during 10 years of scams that involved more than 100 women. Authorities believe that Koch may be involved in fraud cases in 28 states, from California to Virginia. Says police detective Kenneth Kopesky of Kenosha, Wis.: "He tells lonely women he's rich, and wines and dines them. The next thing you know, he cons them out of their money...
...Koch, who has 100 aliases, was arraigned this month in Kenosha, where he was charged with bilking a 48-year-old woman out of $10,200 during a 10-day romance. After Koch proposed to the woman and the two went shopping for a wedding ring, she gave him money from a second-mortgage loan. Her friends, suspicious of Koch, hired a private investigator. Shortly after Koch's arrest became public, Kenosha officials began to receive reports from police departments around the country. If convicted, Koch faces up to 20 years in prison in Wisconsin alone for theft and forgery...
...York City has also shifted strategies. In the mid-1980s, under the administration of former Mayor Ed Koch, a single positive toxicology report was enough for authorities to take a newborn from its mother. But a series of cases of mistaken charges of child abuse helped lead to a change of policy under Mayor David Dinkins. In one notorious example, Brooklyn bank clerk Judith Adams lost custody of her child for nearly two months after the medication that doctors gave her during a caesarean section resulted in a false-positive drug test. "Instead of breast feeding my baby...