Word: scams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Exports are up and imports are down, but the gap between the two is still large enough to keep the U. S. deep in debt. -- Once the hot new investment strategy, portfolio insurance loses popularity and takes part of the blame for Black Monday. -- A glib scam artist nets $10 million and a mail- fraud < charge. -- Digital audiotape is on the way. -- Sony will sell VHS as well as Beta...
...bawdy, irreverent look at the greed that, in Churchill's view, has permeated London's financial community since last year's Big Bang deregulation, the satire has become all the more timely since the worldwide stock crash. The wild, convoluted plot revolves around an insidious insider-trading scam that leads to murder most foul...
...They were suddenly joined by U.S. marshals and immigration agents, who arrested him on a charge of overstaying his tourist visa. Since Garay had implicated him just hours before, the marshals felt they had to act before the suspect caught wind of the news and fled. "It was a scam, but it worked," said Mell Hess of the U.S. Marshals Service...
...stump speech with a no-fudging defense of his tough trade policies, and he has been attacking Simon and Dukakis directly on economic issues. Not only is it a more substantive way to revitalize his campaign, but it might prove more effective than his organization's botched poll scam...
...real J.R. is back on the skids: the FBI has accused McConnell of masterminding the largest title scam in U.S. banking history. The agency alleges that he and five Houston financiers used property they did not own as collateral to secure more than $162 million worth of loans. A U.S. grand jury has indicted the group in connection with $4.2 million worth of the loans. Meanwhile, the FBI is after McConnell, who has not been seen publicly for six months...