Word: scams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with her other son Jon, and William's 14-year-old daughter Robin, who lives with her. The statement notes sarcastically that the three are pleased William "is going to retire early and live off religious money. We are happy when any atheist gets some of that Christian scam money." Puzzled, William responds that there is no money...
Hellman. The reports of her death may have been exaggerated. Evidence is presented that Sarah lives on, the beneficiary of a life-insurance scam. She is important to the author only because she survives in the mind, one ghost among many...
...perhaps the size, sweep and nature of the FBI operation made early publication inevitable. (Rosenthal even deplores the name Abscam, which is short for Arab scam: "I wouldn't like it if the FBI had a Jewscam.") But there's still something disquieting about the way the press protects those whose leaks jeopardize due process of law or disclose security information. The Times, in listing the motives of leakers, says that some fear that superiors may override their findings, some long for personal credit, others with a grudge may want to punish a politician "with publicity even...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation uncovered the Goody scam through one of its now glamorous "sting" operations. The FBI probe started three years ago, when a strike force opened a record shop in Westbury, Long Island, with agents posing as owners and employees. A total of more than 200,000 cloned tapes worth millions were eventually involved. Most of the fakes were sound tracks of the movies Grease and Saturday Night Fever. Other popular copies included hits by Pop Stars Billy Joel, Olivia Newton-John and Paul McCartney...
Officials concede that the latest court action is unlikely to stop over-the-phone scams. Like some Hydraheaded monster, one get-rich-quick operation is no sooner closed down than another takes its place. Federal and state agents are usually one step behind boiler-room artists ready to sell to a gullible public. Says Attorney General Robert Abrams: "The same types of salesmen who brought us underwater land, worthless uranium stocks and phony gold certificates are in the process of perpetrating on the American public their latest scheme-oil futures contracts." A lawyer with the New York attorney general...