Word: scammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone's second favorite suffix, -scam, as in Abscam, has also had a heavy workout (Iranscam, or the rather infelicitous NSCam), as have various "connections" (the Contra Connection, the Swiss Connection, the Tehran Connection). More whimsical designations usually focus on the scandal's most intriguing character: Ollie's Follies, Oliver's Twist, Cuckoo Iran and Ollie, and even (for fans of '50s rock 'n' roll) the Buddy-Ollie Story. Reagan's foes have played the name game with partisan glee: Dutch's Clutch, Gippergate, Iranaround, Iranoutaluck . . . well, you get the idea...
...murder case began when Hunt himself became the victim of a scam. Ronald Levin, a wealthy, self-styled free-lance journalist, told Hunt he had put $5.2 million in a brokerage account for Hunt to trade with. Hunt's investment decisions soon made the bundle grow to $13.5 million. When he began pressing Levin for his promised share of the profit, Levin would not pay up. There was no investment account, Levin confessed, only a fake one set up with the broker's cooperation on the pretense that Levin was doing a story about commodities. Hunt did not react kindly...
...Chadds Ford as they were besieged by reporters last week. The locals understand the artist-model relationship, and they figure they know Andy Wyeth. So dismissive are they of any charge of infidelity that they are willing to entertain -- and be entertained by -- the possibility of a Wyeth scam. "This whole thing could be a ploy," said Karl J. Kuerner III, who lives on top of Kuerner Hill, where Wyeth frequently sketched his grandparents. An employee at the Brandywine called it the "best stunt I've ever seen...
...were apparently motivated by more than mischievousness. Authorities alleged last week that the test scam was designed to place certain officers in positions in which they could help cover up a racketeering operation that included drug dealing, robbery and involvement with organized-crime figures. Last week a federal grand jury indicted Doherty, Clemente and eight other current or former Massachusetts lawmen who were allegedly in on the scam...
...also stressed old-fashioned digging. Last year, after two reporters fished a stenographer's notes from a trash can outside a grand jury courtroom, the paper's revelations based on those notes nearly blew Governor William Sheffield out of office for alleged involvement in a state office- leasing scam. Readers gobbled up the Tale of the Trash Can Papers, as well as the News's coverage (including a regular column by Weaver) of a state senate impeachment investigation, which Sheffield survived by a vote...