Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...message from New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, still in pursuit of culprits in the Bank of Credit & Commerce International scandal, was broadly aimed. "No participant in the B.C.C.I. scheme, here or abroad, however influential, should expect to escape justice," declared Morgenthau. The D.A. then made good on his threat by delivering a grand jury indictment of billionaire Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz, CEO of the National Commercial Bank, the largest commercial bank in Saudi Arabia, and a financial adviser to the Saudi royal family, on charges of fraud. Other targets of a criminal grand jury led by Morgenthau include intimates...
...would be easy to dismiss Smith and Keller as just a couple of upstate kooks with a harebrained scheme. But from the beginning, virtually everyone involved -- engineers and environmentalists, utility executives and officials at the Department of Energy -- has agreed that the Otisca coal/water slurry process is a solid idea. Acknowledges W. Henson Moore, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy: "This precleaning process of theirs looked very good to the experts...
More out of stubbornness than nobility, March plugs on with his inconvenient questions. At first it seems that the dead man, a bureaucrat named Buhler, was merely involved in a scheme to get rich selling artwork confiscated from Jews. This would not be a major offense, because it is known that during the war, all Jews were evacuated to the east somewhere -- March isn't clear on the details -- and never came back...
...reported, Perot's scheme would probably violate any number of individual rights. But the basic notion is sound: no amount of inner-city investment will revitalize America's urban areas if the people who live there fear for their lives. Security, as all the candidates say, with varying emphasis, must be the first priority. All three have embraced community policing, the concept that would add cops to the streets on the theory that only intimate associations can eventually cause residents and officers to trust one another. But "c- pop," as it is known, can work only after an area...
...soon as he's finished battling Customs, Treasury, the Department of Transportation, the Coast Guard and much of the White House staff, Drug Enforcement Administration chief ROBERT BONNER may want to begin circulating his resume. Bonner started the fight with "Operation Granite," a new drug- interdiction scheme he concocted for the Caribbean. Under a plan that one top Administration source calls "remarkably stupid," DEA would base 10 Black Hawk helicopters in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic for chasing down drug smugglers flying out of Colombia. One of Bonner's targets: drugs being air- dropped to boats. Customs and the Coast...