Word: scam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...County coroner's office, as Hall's sister. Later, authorities discovered there was no sister. Sharon Hall had used the coroner's death certificate to fake her own demise, sidetracking creditors and probation officers who were on her trail. Hall was sentenced to two years in prison for the scam; her mother got 16 months...
...January, Hertz paid wholesale prices for auto repairs but charged customers full retail price without advising them of the markup. In other cases, Hertz prepared phony repair appraisals and charged customers for work that was never done. Hertz says it has fired 20 employees who carried out the scam, including the company's accident-control manager...
...Merrill Lynch fired Dillon late last month after it discovered his suspicious trading pattern. Prudential-Bache, detecting an apparently separate but very similar scam, late last month fired a broker in its Anaheim, Calif., office whom it has accused of getting early copies of Business Week from a printing plant in Torrance, Calif. Last week the company that operates both plants, R.R. Donnelley & Sons (which also prints some copies of TIME), fired three workers; a fourth resigned...
...year-old man named Carlos ("Named after my cat," says Randi). One of Channeler Jose's most significant quotes: "All answers are yes, and all questions can be answered thus." Then, on national television, Randi disclosed that he had orchestrated the entire performance as a scam designed to enhance skepticism Down Under. Most Australians were amused, but channeling devotees petulantly insisted that the episode proved nothing...
...much bigger target: First Chicago. His contact was a cousin, Herschel Bailey, 30, who knew Otis Wilson, 30, a clerk at the bank. Wilson introduced Taylor to Moore and by last month the group included Neal Jackson, 31, Leonard Strickland, 49, and Ronald Carson, 40. They plotted their scam at meetings in a Quality Inn on Chicago's west side...