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Could be. Last week the Governor was himself convicted in a Phoenix federal court of seven counts of fraud. A jury found him guilty of repeatedly lying on loan applications to shore up his wobbly real estate empire. Under stringent federal sentencing guidelines--of the sort he in the past would have heartily endorsed--Symington will almost certainly do time...
Symington's governorship was tainted almost from its inception. Soon after taking office, he was sued by the Resolution Trust Corporation for his role in directing the failed Southwest Savings & Loan Association in Phoenix. Two years later, Symington, who had campaigned as a successful business mogul, declared himself broke. Despite his troubles, he won re-election in 1994. But the litany of scandal never stopped. In 1995, after a court ruled that Symington was personally liable for a $10 million loan from six pension funds to his now defunct real estate company, he declared personal bankruptcy. Then last year...
...prosecution witnesses and 1,400 documents were enough for the jury last week to find him guilty. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Schindler called Symington a classic con man, who falsely inflated his net worth when he wanted to borrow and pleaded poverty when he wanted to refinance a loan on more favorable terms. Between 1989 and 1991, for instance, his declared net worth swung between $12 million and minus $23 million...
...miserable. Hitchens followed up with a scathing, book-length critique called The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, which noted that Mother Teresa once wrote to Judge Lance Ito requesting leniency for Charles Keating, whom he was about to sentence in the late-1980s savings-and-loan scandal. Keating had once contributed $1.25 million to the Missionaries of Charity...
...Visiting Professor of Folklore and American Civilization Simon J. Bronner, on loan from the University of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg, is turning the F&M spotlight closer to home-closer to his home, in fact, in Pennsylvania's Amish Country...