Word: scams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judicial system as indulgent as his parents. Soon, the renegade idealist and the venture capitalist joined forces to foul up the system by selling U.S. spy satellite codes to Soviet emissaries , in Mexico City. What delicious revenge on America's bland malevolence and institutional incompetence! What an entrepreneurial scam--the ultimate frat- house prank...
Given his key role, Winans profited relatively modestly from the scam. Though Felis suggested that Winans might be paid $25,000 for every column that benefited the speculators, he actually received a total of only $31,000. All the checks were made payable to David J. Carpenter, a former Journal news clerk and Winans' roommate. Carpenter, who is also charged in the suit, is said to have made about $4,400 in trading profits...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation code-named it Operation Corkscrew: a four-year, $750,000 Government scam designed to ensnare what were believed to be corrupt judges in the Cleveland Municipal Court. An undercover agent, posing as a car thief, hired Court Bailiff Marvin Bray to offer bribes to judges in exchange for fixing cases. It seemed an effective "sting" when in 1981 six judges were about to be indicted. But it was the FBI that was getting stung. Some of the judges brought to meetings with the undercover agent were impostors, and Bray himself was pocketing the bribe money, totaling...
...Agent Benedict Tisa was in his third day of hammering cross-examination by Defense Attorney Howard Weitzman, and he was beginning to get rattled. Tisa had masqueraded as a corrupt banker in the Government scam that snared Auto Magnate John Zachary De Lorean, currently on trial in Los Angeles for conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine to save his failing sports-car company. Weitzman questioned Tisa about the log he kept of the four-month investigation that culminated in De Lorean's arrest in October 1982. Some of the entries in the 28-page handwritten document were...
...year-old Bedford, N.Y., woman was a victim of an increasingly common scam: telephone credit card fraud. Last week such cases seemed to grow larger and more outlandish by the day. Philip Rubin, 71, of Boca Raton, Fla., received a statement demanding $176,983. Said he: "I was more than a little surprised." Even that was topped by a bill presented to the Michigan Association of Governmental Employees for calls charged to its new, but not yet distributed, credit cards. It came...