Word: scammed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...House Judiciary committee, regarded Miers' no-show as an affront when he asked, "Are Congressional subpoenas to be honored, or are they optional?" His was one of the morning's calmer statements, with Utah Rep. Chris Cannon, the ranking Republican member, calling the entire investigation a "preposterous, prefabricated, partisan scam" and Rep. Stephen Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, calling for a contempt citation, saying "What we've got here is an empty chair. That's as contemptuous as anybody can be of the government...
...another step up for Rudd. He showed his colleagues that he could dig in for a long fight, keeping political pressure on the Howard government last year despite no evidence of ministerial misconduct. It was a complicated brief to try to implicate the government in the $300 million scam, especially as the company's executives were the focus. But the experience proved that Rudd and his young advisers were relentless. Month after month, Rudd had a staffer sitting in on the Cole Commission hearings; the boss might as well have been sitting there himself, such was the diligence...
...twentieth century's most famous recluse, Howard Hughes. Somehow he got a couple of big-time publishing entities, McGraw-Hill and Life magazine, to believe him. The evidence he produces to prove he has Hughes's cooperation is slender (almost transparently fraudulent), but as with all great scam artists, his success depends entirely on the willingness of his victims to suspend disbelief, Or, putting it another way, to allow their greed to override their common sense. What we have in The Hoax is the record not so much of a victimless crime, but of a self-victimizing crime...
...says while wearing giant sunglasses and eating his first meal of the day--a cheeseburger--at 1 p.m. "I'm not that well read. Which I'm insecure about since I've gotten the [intellectual] niche." He's not even sure how he pulled off the fake-nerd scam. "Maybe the sarcasm reads a little bit as intellect, even if it's not," he says. "My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically. I just say, 'Yeah. Cool.'" As he says this, I feel the confusing disappointment that I imagine young women painters feel when...
...actually a lawyer. And he is not actually Doug Rich. He is con man Wayne Malloy, who with wife Dahlia (Minnie Driver) and kids have taken over the swellegant life of a man who died en route to his new suburban home. As Wayne tries to scam his way through corporate law, Dahlia adjusts to straight suburban life and the kids try to fit in at private school, the series shows that social mobility isn't as easy as advertised in America and that identity is less a constant than a performance. Everybody feels like a fraud, says The Riches...