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These days, when he isn't preaching or scam busting, Minkow delivers speeches on fraud to corporate officers, insurance companies, accountants and law-enforcement groups, often appearing in a bright orange prison jump suit. At Quantico, as his 150 student FBI agents scribbled notes, he walked through Fraud 101, explaining the psychology of the scam. "A lot of con men just want to please everyone," he says. He stresses that in a successful con game, appearances are everything. "After all," says Minkow, "fraud is nothing more than the skin of the truth stuffed with a lie." Spoken by the master...
...People want to kill me just because of a few pictures." LYNDDIE ENGLAND, U.S. Army private, on death threats she has received since her appearance in photos showing the abuse of Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison...
...Fake Watch Two Americans went on trial in Shanghai last week charged with "conducting business illegally" after allegedly selling some 180,000 pirated DVDs over eBay and a Russian website. Arrested following the first joint Sino-American investigation on DVD piracy, they face up to 15 years in prison for running an "audio and video products" business without a proper license. The defendants argue that the law doesn't apply because they sold all their goods overseas. And as for the dodgy discs: "I bought the DVDs from licensed stores," said one, "so I took it for granted that they...
...inciting unrest are receiving help from an unlikely quarter: factory managers and their overseas clients. After the riot at Stella's Dongguan factory, 10 workers including Chen, the migrant worker from Shaanxi, were sentenced by a Dongguan court to serve up to three-and-a-half years in prison for destroying factory property. But Stella's managers (who say they were trying to address workers' complaints when the strike erupted), aided by foreign shoe companies and overseas NGOs, petitioned judges and Chinese officials on the workers' behalf, and in some cases even hired lawyers to appeal for lesser sentences...
...soon attempt to collect unpaid wages before heading home for the holiday. More clashes with employers are possible. Meanwhile, Chen is back home, trying to shrug off stares from neighbors who look down on her because of her stint behind bars. "To them it's like I went to prison for killing somebody," she says, "but it was just a strike." All part of the daily grind...