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...covering up the origin of funds earned from drug trafficking and other crimes. Growing concern about the spread of money laundering prompted the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations to announce plans for a probe of the Boston institution, which is New England's largest banking company (assets: $21 billion). Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee, declared that the Boston episode shows the need for tighter controls over the financial industry...
What's going on' Isn't scalping illegal in Massachusetts' In fact, Bav State law says that tickets cannot be sold for more than $2 above their face value. However, this doesn't apply to concerns out of state Bruce is playing a Providence, Rhode Island...
This is only one of the problems involved in seeing a good concern in the Boston area. Most bands don't want to play in Boston Garden because of its acoustics, scatting and other problems. So if they don't go to Rhode Island, they go to the Worcesfer Centrum Which is fine for all the students at Worcesfer High, who immediately buy 1,000 tickets each and help them back to us for 10 times the original price and a pound of flesh for good measure...
...combat these scalpers? How can we get tickets to these shows? Establishing residency in Rhode Island or Dorchester would seem to be the immediate solution. Those not of the "if you can't beat them." school of justice might want to deal with the problem of scalpers directly...
...sisters give up political careers. The effects in North America: Jesuit Father Robert Drinan of Massachusetts left the U.S. Congress; Father Bob Ogle is no longer a member of the Canadian Parliament; and, in a reverse decision, Sister Arlene Violet decided to quit her order to serve as Rhode Island's new attorney general...