Word: scammed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, the FBI, U.S. Customs and several U.S. Attorneys are investigating a scam in which parts so seriously damaged that they could cause a crash were nearly installed in U.S. airliners. Because many components of military jets are interchangeable with those of commercial jetliners, unscrupulous dealers have somehow passed off parts from jets shot up in the Gulf War as acceptable commercial spares. Truckloads of such components have been seized, some with shrapnel and gaping bullet holes. Investigators found critical engine parts so badly damaged that they would have fallen apart within two hours if used...
...Priscilla Parker (Kevin ; Kline and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) who are lured away from their narrow suburban patterns of getting and spending, both financial and sexual. The seducer is their next-door neighbor, Eddy Otis (Kevin Spacey), abetted by his wife Kay (Rebecca Miller). First Eddy masterminds an insurance scam to help the Parkers out of credit-card debt. Next he encourages a spot of highly improbable wife swapping. Can violent crimes -- and false accusations leveled at poor, increasingly bedeviled Richard -- be far behind...
...they denied the 17-year-old her crown and named the runner-up, pert and clean-cut Elizabeth Weld, as winner. Last week Eau Claire District superintendent Lee Hansen exposed a plot by principal Charles Zielin and three assistant principals to burn the original ballots and cover up their scam. Hansen announced disciplinary actions against the four administrators and a teacher who came forward. "In trying to protect the traditional image of Memorial High School," said Hansen, "these individuals trampled over . . . the democratic process...
...salesmen have to believe that listening implies complicity -- that the moment a mark is seated across the living room, or has just picked up a phone, he has declared himself a co-conspirator in the scam. Ace huckster Ricky Roma (Al Pacino) knows this better than anyone else. Lately, Ricky has been the "closer," the high man on the company's totem pole. And Shelley Levene (Jack Lemmon) is the Loman. Vending his unplowed dreams, Shelley woos like a Don Juan of property values. But when the courtship is over or aborted, he looks old, depleted, desperate. He sweats...
Sometimes a scam becomes too successful for its own good. So it was in the case of about 100 people -- including 82 pharmacists and a doctor -- arrested last week in 50 cities. Two of the conspirators had complained, in a phone call that was wiretapped, that they were running out of places to stash all the illicit cash they were taking in. With such evidence in hand, an army of more than 1,100 FBI agents and other federal law-enforcement officials ended the largest health-care fraud investigation to date. Under the complex scheme, medical professionals and their accomplices...