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...does the scam work? Most of those indicted at one time had no jobs and legitimately received welfare payments. But after they were hired by federal, state or local government agencies, they left themselves on the welfare rolls. Since welfare recipients are regularly asked to fill out personal-status forms, the specific fraud usually entailed falsifying employment information...
Counterfeiting is no longer the privileged scam of the master engraver. A new generation of duplicating machines, capable of copying in living color, threatens to open the field to anyone able to push a button. Technology, laments Richard Thornburgh, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, "has brought counterfeiting ability down to the rankest amateur...
...himself, Rees purchased a $16,000 plot of land, and he met a bookie who would let him play the ponies at $2,000 a crack. But, he claimed, he "found out that it was a scam [a con game] and had the guy beat up. They broke one side of his rib cage. He had taken me for a bunch...
...Questions. Skinner is currently trying to RICO not only the accused Medicaid-fraud conspirators but a group of five nursing homes and two pharmacies also charged with Medicaid fraud, and Chicago's Tyler Barber College. The barber school scam particularly rouses Skinner. It, involves allegedly false Veterans Administration claims from dozens of otherwise "good citizens": fire men, policemen, Chicago transit workers and Federal Government employees who shared their V A monthly education benefits ($216 to $398) with the school but never went to class or snipped a hair. Worries Skinner: "With the potential for fraud so easy...
...this mission, he gets a certain amount of support and comic relief from two Americans named Roper (John Saxon) and Williams (Jim Kelly). Roper is a fast-talking scam artist; Williams is black and supposedly a prodigious sexual athlete...