Word: scammed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Walsh urged the audience to be wary of scam artists and to keep water, flashlights and portable radios in their homes, while George Fosque, the city's 911 director, asked that everyone does not check to see if their telephone works at 12:01 a.m. on New Year...
ARRESTED. MARTIN FRANKEL, 44, fugitive financier whose trading firm may have been the center of a sophisticated scam that siphoned some $335 million from a web of insurance companies; by German police on a warrant charging him with U.S. federal money-laundering and wire-fraud offenses; at a hotel in Hamburg. Extradition is expected to take several months. After flying to Rome in May, Frankel vanished. At one point, a report had him in Brazil. Mona Kim, his office manager and a companion in the early part of his journey, told CNN that there was no high living...
Sounds like a scam, doesn't it? The same senior actually has a thesis due soon, but he won't be found doing much work on it. And he just got his first "C-" on a paper, but don't ask him if he cares...
...religious right. For Lamar Alexander, who?s down to the change in his couch after concentrating on the Hawkeye State, a good showing could be a reprieve from bankruptcy, and a poor one likely a death blow. John McCain, meanwhile, skipped the event completely, calling it a "scam," and in the run-up to the vote it?s not hard to see why an avatar of campaign finance reform would find the event distasteful. The event itself is just a fund-raiser for the Iowa GOP, held a full six months before the state?s caucus. Candidates ply farmers with...
While his ultimate aspirations for the St. Francis Foundation are not clear, the fund was his scam's undoing. State regulators balked when the Virgin Islands-registered Foundation sought to take over U.S. insurance companies. But by early May, when Mississippi and Tennessee regulators began seeking the return of assets from Frankel's Liberty National, Frankel was gone, leaving behind, among other things, a half-million-dollar charge for jet fuel on his credit card. At his house, FBI agents recovered astrological charts intended to answer, among other questions, "Will I go to jail...