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...chose." Lopez was renowned for his impeccable representation of the human form. His subjects included Pat Cleveland, Diana Vreeland and Audrey Hepburn. Not to mention Jerry Hall, above, whom he discovered when she was 15. Known as Antonio's Girls, his subjects were among his biggest fans. --BY BETSY KROLL...
...respected in Cambodia. Other fakes, however, come in packages that are nearly indistinguishable from the real products. "Even if there is a new security feature, such as a hologram, the counterfeiters can reproduce it in one or two weeks," says Samuel Porteous, managing director for greater China at Kroll, an international risk consultancy...
...employers increasingly recruit talent from around the world, how can they know whether the resumes they get are legit? Kroll, the global risk consultancy, has introduced a worldwide background-checking service to verify job candidates' education, employment, references and, in some cases, credit and criminal records. Kroll conducts its research from offices in 66 cities, from Moscow to Sao Paulo to Hong Kong. During a trial run in Britain, Kroll checked the backgrounds of 1,400 job candidates from 37 countries and found that 80% of job seekers had glossed over or failed to mention negatives like dismissal or academic...
...Street in the city's garment district, turning out shirts, pants and sweaters. But the sting took longer than anyone had anticipated. "Every two weeks Eliot would come in asking for more money," says Michael Cherkasky, who headed the investigation division (and is now president of risk-consulting firm Kroll Inc.). "We were actually stuck running a business--and losing money. I said, 'Eliot, you're becoming a shmatte salesman?'" But the shop manager eventually got close to the Gambinos, and officials were able to plant a bug in their office, in an elaborate ruse that involved picking locks, switching...
Illegal cigarettes have long been used in money laundering. "They're small, easily portable, of value and have a pretty universal market base," says John Auerbach, 33, a money-laundering expert with the risk-consulting firm Kroll, based in New York City. "They're almost like currency in some places." What's new in the E.U. suit is its allegation that not only did RJR executives know about their cigarettes' being used this way but also that it was "part of their operating business plan to sell cigarettes to and through criminal organizations." The E.U. says RJR gave its "criminal...