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...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...
...gorgeous scam, simple in design, swift in execution. It worked like a dream, 65 times in ten weeks. The setup: a fugitive from justice in the Los Angeles area receives notice at his last known address that a package containing $2,000 worth of unspecified goods is waiting for him at FIST Bonded Delivery Courier Service. Curiosity piqued and greed aroused, he calls the number on the notice to arrange delivery. The number he dials happens to be a Marine barracks in Pico Rivera in Los Angeles County. The person he speaks with is working for the U.S. Marshals Service...
...delivery scam was part of an intensive man hunt that has swept California during the past 2½ months. Conducted by the U.S. Marshals Service and local law-enforcement officers, FIST (Fugitive Investigative Strike Team) netted 2,116 arrests. Most of the captured felons were being sought for violent crimes, and on the average each had five felony counts on his record. The criminals included 24 accused or convicted murderers, 39 rapists, 13 kidnapers and 272 robbers. Said Marshals Director Stanley Morris of FIST: "I cannot think of any more successful operation in such a time span...
...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...