Word: scammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...individuals. They did so, following the basic tenet of their sport, as a team. Money may have been the bait but loyalty and comradeship were the motives that persuaded them, some with great reluctance, to betray their talents. As Chick Gandil (Paul Christie), the sour ringleader of the scam, remarks in an aside, people become willing to do something they consider wrong if they see enough others doing it. Kelly shrewdly narrows his focus to just the wrongdoers, not the colleagues who never joined -- or, in at least some cases, were not asked. Most of the locker-room dialogue...
...sting and countersting among a prostitute, a gay hairdresser, a Latin American drug king, a Mafioso, his brutal brother, and assorted innocents who get hurt. The action keeps up until the final sentence. Another Part of the City is a thriller about a sophisticated Wall Street scam and its murderous repercussions in far less swank parts of New York City. The wrongdoers are exposed, but scarcely brought to book, by an honest cop who sees connections between the deaths of a multimillionaire and a small-time restaurateur and manages to wreck his marriage through obsession with an unwinnable fight against...
...indictment hardly improves the tarnished reputation of Wall Street dealmakers. Last year E.F. Hutton pleaded guilty to a check-kiting scheme. The Securities and Exchange Commission said in May that it had cracked the largest insider-trading case ever: the $12.6 million scam allegedly engineered by Dennis Levine, a former managing director at Drexel Burnham. The Shearson indictment is the latest chapter in a continuing saga of Wall Street scandal. No one is calling it the last...
...disillusionment of the Depression, all paralleled the development of the gallant equalizer. Today he is likely to deal with government corruption, financial fraud and environmental threats. "I don't consider my newest book, Barrier Island, as hard-boiled fiction," says John D. MacDonald. "It's about a land scam in islands off the Mississippi coast." The detective story is one of the few fiction forms that deal directly with the seamier side of American life. To improvise on Mencken, himself an American institution no less secure than the one he launched with Black Mask, no one ever went broke overestimating...
This illegal practice, known as insider trading, caught up with Levine last week. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil complaint charging him with 54 violations of federal securities law that were part of an elaborate scam involving fictitious names, phony Panamanian corporations and a Bahamas-based broker. Soon thereafter, U.S. marshals arrested him in Manhattan on the criminal charge that he had obstructed the SEC's investigation. If the SEC's civil charges are upheld, Levine could be forced to hand over $7.6 million in illegal profits and pay a $22.8 million fine. He could also be sentenced...