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...together in Central America prompted an angry response Thursday from their sons, Mark, 31, and Anthony, 29, who believed their father had drowned. "If the papers' allegations of a confession from our mom are true then we very much feel that we have been the victims in a large scam," the brothers said in a statement. They added their "rollercoaster of emotion" since Saturday, when their father strolled into a police station in central London, has taken them "from the height of elation at finding him alive to the depths of despair at the recent stories of fraud and these...
South Korea's leading presidential candidate, Lee Myung Bak, averted a setback that could have cost him the upcoming election when government prosecutors cleared him of fraud accusations in connection with a 2001 financial scam involving a former business partner...
...himself from the North Pole, is now in Chicago working as a repo man, a sort of sub-prime-rate enforcer. He enrages the people whose holiday he's ruining and exasperates his meter-maid inamorata with big ideas never fulfilled, dinner dates blown off. Plying a Salvation Army scam, Fred lands in jail and is forced to call his brother Nick, a.k.a. Santa, to go his bail. That brings him to the North Pole, the prodigal son carrying a grudge as big as Santa's sack of gifts...
...ever going to open another restaurant? -Irwin Chen, Brooklyn, N.Y.I'm 51 years old. From age 37, you don't get any smarter or faster in the kitchen. Your palate is in decline. So God, I hope not. Though this TV scam could all go wrong, and I might need the job. [Laughs...
...press conference Tuesday, California Insurance Commissioner Stephen Poizner said his fraud investigation response team is in the county to crack down on insurance scam artists. Poizner also said displaced homeowners may be entitled to at least two weeks of hotel expenses under state's fire insurance laws, and he vowed to cut insurance red tape in general for victims. Following the 2003 fires, hundreds of lawsuits were filed by homeowners who claimed they did not have enough coverage to rebuild after they lost their homes. In April of this year, the first trial involved in the dispute ended with...