Word: scams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another blow to the image of all journalists was struck in Washington last Friday when White House Spokesman Larry Speakes announced that he had trapped two reporters purloining internal White House memos. To prove that some writers on the White House beat were snooping, Speakes said, he prepared a "scam": fake messages, one about the timing of President Reagan's re-election announcement, were left out to see who would pick them up and pursue the stories. Said Speakes: "They both bit like snakes...
Piecing together the scam, the investigators speculate that the scenario unfolded this way: Rignola and Farriel let Granberg off the boat shortly after they left shore, where he was picked up by his wife and driven to the airport to board a flight to London, using his brother's passport. He had friends and contacts in London, where he sometimes used his brother's name and sometimes used the name James Kelly. Six months later, Judy Granberg met her husband in London and stayed with him at an elegant hotel. Then Granberg, investigators believe, returned to New York...
...books for young ladies, I Wanna Be a Ho and Exercises of Love. Now he is Tyrone Green, an illiterate convict lionized by radical chic for his vengeful poetry ("Cill My Lanlord") and moving with the mean swagger of a ghetto goon pulling off his toughest scam. A few commercials later, he is Tyrone's spiritual cousin, Film Critic Raheem Abdul Muhammad, fashioning a variation on local-news patter-"Angry Talk"-as he accuses Jerry Falwell's followers of having a sneaking fondness for dirty movies ("The next time I see one of them in a movie line...
...winter street outside the Heritage Club, dedicated to liberty and justice for all, but open only to Wasp males of elevated social and financial status, Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) is working his latest scam. Black, and a street hustler not quite as shrewd as he thinks he is, Billy Ray is dressed in rags and crouched on a rolling platform. He is pretending to be a blind and legless Viet Nam veteran, begging and trying to make it with a foxy passer-by ("Ain't you never heard of Porgy and Bess...
...money. During that time, the bank invests the money and earns interest, a strategy known as "playing the float." In essence, the customer often unwittingly gives the bank a free loan. Says New York State Senator Franz Leichter: "I think it's the biggest consumer scam going on in America today...