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...prosecutors from trying him on similar charges while in office. Juppé remained loyal even during his trial, when his political career was on the line. Political analysts believe Juppé's protestations of innocence - as well as his appeal - are designed to shield Chirac from implication in a scam that Juppé's former cabinet head testified "everyone knew" about. "This decision targets the entire Chirac system, striking at the man at the top of that system - Chirac - via his closest ally and confidant," says Dominique Moïsi, deputy director of the French Institute of International Relations...
...appeal doesn’t last forever. “As a freshman girl, frats are the coolest thing ever. Hot older guys serving you unlimited refills of keg beer. By senior year, you go to the same parties just to laugh at your lame guy friends trying to scam on the clueless freshmen,” says Schweitzer. “It’s all about perspective.” Not that Yale’s off-campus partying options are all open to everyone. By Caesar’s count, about five percent of the school participates...
...wife says I use the hand phone so much that my brain is damaged." Eric, a Singaporean man who lost $191,000 in a Nigerian e-mail scam...
Although Kiely said after his lecture that he would not suggest substituting Revolve for the traditional King James translation he recommends for his Core class, and although he dubbed the fifth-and-a-half-grade-reading-level publication “just another American low-brow scam,” he did say he planned to order the magazine for his teaching fellows...
...their troubles. During the telecom boom of the late 1990s, Motorola and Nokia lent $2 billion and $700 million, respectively, to Telsim. The Uzans never paid them back. In 2002, the two firms filed racketeering charges against the family in U.S. Federal Court, accusing them of perpetrating an elaborate scam. Cem Uzan denies charges of fraud and racketeering in the Motorola case and called the Turkish government's actions a disgrace that he would contest in the European Court of Human Rights. "Erdogan's aim is to destroy our wealth. He believes that [the Youth Party] could not succeed without...