Word: scams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Decorum and The Scam--Jasper's, 379 Somerville Ave., Somerville...
Allied Bank thus joins a growing list of U.S. banks that have been victimized by unscrupulous employees. Earlier this year, California's Wells Fargo Bank was bilked out of some $21 million in a scam involving bogus transfers between branch offices, and last week reports surfaced of a $20 million loan fraud scheme at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City...
...today's moral climate, however, book publishers will probably be pursuing her with fat contracts to write The Pulitzer Scam...
...gray suit and an even grayer expression, New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams Jr., 61, made his way into Brooklyn's U.S. District Court last week. He is the last suspect to be brought to trial on bribery and corruption charges in the Government's Abscam (for "Arab scam") case. A 22-year veteran of the Senate, he is also the most important figure to face a jury as a result of the FBI sting operation. Like the six U.S. Congressmen already tried and convicted on Abscam charges, Williams faces a barrage of electronic evidence in the form...
...vortex out of sheer statis. As James Cain conceived him in the 1934 novel. Chambers is a sardonic son of a bitch with no past to speak of, and no future worth mentioning. On his way to the city, Chambers drops off at a roadside diner to scam a meal off the owner. The owner is a sleazy, belching Horatio Algier-type from Greece named Nick Papadakis. Chambers wants nothing to do with him until suddenly he spots Papadakis's wife, Cora. As Cain wrote...