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...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...
...bank's oversight practices are. So Cooley decided last week to assert that the nation's eleventh largest bank had not become an embezzler's playpen. He sent a letter to the bank's 15,000 employees, detailing what has been learned of the scam, and started talking to newsmen. Said he: "It appears that some of our policies were laxly controlled. But I guarantee you that there will be greater emphasis on operational controls and policies than there...
...only as trustworthy as the people who use them. Lewis knew the procedural ropes, having earlier in his eleven years with Wells Fargo worked in the bank's computer center. Though federal officials regard Wells Fargo as a well-managed bank, some critics have wondered whether Lewis' scam went on so long in part because the bank has been adding so many branches-nine a year-that finding competent supervisors has been difficult. Cooley concedes that Lewis found "a flaw in our system." But the bank has changed its $1 million "trigger point" and the five-day timing...