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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...
...cleared the way for the U.S. to support Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war. By late 1982, however, growing evidence that an Iraqi- backed group was behind a wave of bombings against U.S. targets led to a mini-revolt in the American government. "I was very upset," says Noel Koch, then the Pentagon's top official for counterterrorism policy and now a security-management consultant. "I called my colleagues at State and asked, 'What the hell are we doing?' " They didn't like the policy either, but the decision to tilt toward Iraq in the war had been made...
...prior job experience as New York's mayor makes me the perfect candidate for the Harvard presidency. If you choose someone else, though, that's okay too--you wouldn't believe how much money I'm making now. Sincerely, Ed Koch former Hizzoner...