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...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...
...more than a month, newspapers in Yugoslavia have been dribbling out the details of the country's biggest financial scandal since World War II. The scam centers on Agrokomerc, a giant food-processing firm that issued up to $400 million in worthless promissory notes to 63 Yugoslav banks. So far eight people, including the firm's president, have been arrested. The scandal, dubbed "Agrogate" by the local press, took a dramatic turn last week. As allegations mounted that he and his family were implicated, Hamdija Pozderac, 63, Yugoslavia's Vice President, abruptly resigned. He had been scheduled to begin...
Just when the CIA thought the scandal season was over, along comes Stamp-scam. Though it has none of the drama of arms-for-hostages trades or covert wars in Central America, this latest caper centers on the appropriation of a valuable rarity: 95 misprinted U.S. postage stamps that could be worth thousands of dollars each...