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...evidence in hand, an army of more than 1,100 FBI agents and other federal law-enforcement officials ended the largest health-care fraud investigation to date. Under the complex scheme, medical professionals and their accomplices stole tens of millions of dollars from Medicaid as prescriptions were falsified or resold. Said President Bush after the arrests: "These people are charged with betraying a sacred trust...
Several members of the recently busted ring have agreed to plead guilty, and are expected to testify against yet more participants. In many instances, the Social Security employees sold earnings histories for $25 apiece, and these were then marked up by brokers and resold for as much as $175. Local law- enforcement employees punched into the FBI's national database for criminal-history reports, which subsequently retailed for $100. In telephone conversations taped by federal agents, information brokers bragged about pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. One Tampa-based outfit, Nationwide Electronic Tracking, even advertised its illegal services...
...flat tire on the getaway car, the heist was short lived. Among the loot recovered 35 minutes later: The Potato Eaters, which had also been stolen in 1988, from another Dutch museum. Total worth of the take: about $500 million -- assuming that such famous hot potatoes could have been resold...
...They hit pay dirt with Rambo's debut in 1982 and eventually took the studio public at $9 a share. In 1989 Vajna sold most of his 36% stake to Kassar in a complex deal involving shell companies in Panama and the Netherlands Antilles. Last October Kassar resold some of his shares to Carolco for $13 each, or 60% higher than the market price. That brought him $11 million, or 80% of the studio's 1989 net income, which prompted angry shareholders to file a class action. In December state-court judge John Zebrowski in Los Angeles froze 2.2 million...
Authorities say that Copeland, with her husband Ray, 75, had hired the transients to buy livestock from local cattle barns with bad checks, resold the animals before the checks bounced, then silenced their unwitting agents. The victims were discovered on farms in northwest Missouri with .22-cal. gunshot wounds in their heads. The cattle scheme allegedly netted the couple $32,000. Prosecutors have also charged Ray Copeland with the murders, but his trial awaits the outcome of a competency hearing later this month. His lawyers claim that Copeland is senile...