Word: scammed
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Initially, the bank had zeroed in on the records of a black boxing promoter named Harold Smith, 37, chairman of an organization called Muhammad Ali Professional Sports, or MAPS, which seemed to be at the center of the scam. But as the investigation went on it became clear that the real mastermind was Lewis, a black who, like Smith, was a board member of MAPS. When told during a Jan. 23 interrogation that auditors from the head office in San Francisco would see him after lunch, Lewis walked out and never returned...
...revelations-which included solid leads in a $5.85 million heist from a Lufthansa terminal at New York's Kennedy International Airport in 1978-were charges that almost as a sideline, he had rigged the outcome of Boston College games. According to Hill, he became involved in the scam when a former penitentiary pal introduced him to a friend of a Boston College reserve forward, Rick Kuhn. Kuhn allegedly enlisted the services of Sweeney, an honors graduate who proved to be a sharp negotiator, Hill asserted, indicating games that could easily be rigged and bargaining for payoffs even when...
Boston College Coach Tom Davis has reviewed the allegedly fixed games anc has said he can find nothing to indicate that his players had done less than their best. But he and other college coaches no doubt shuddered at Hill's succinct summation of his scam: "Point shaving is sneaky ... Kids have made thousands of bad passes by mistake for nothing, so what was so bad about making just one more bad pass and getting paid...
Despite his name on the firm's front door, Muhammad Ali is not involved in the scam. But he admits that he received at least $10,000 for the use of his name for each fight. Said Ali last week: "If you're looking for something dirty or crooked, you're looking in the wrong place. Me a bank robber? Are you kidding...
...predictability is irritating as the band crafts each record and each song to sound slightly different than the last: Royal Scam ushered in horn sections; Aja added extended orchestration. Some call Gaucho the quintessential Steely Dan. It "took three years to make," the ads brag. The ads don't mention the contract dispute and auto accident that actually delayed the album. You're supposed to think Dan put more thought into Gaucho than the albums it churned out annually. Not so. When Becker and Fagen assemble an album, it's like a political party picking a presidential candidate: the question...