Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death of her husband 10 years earlier that Crosson would be taken care of. Over the years, O'Donnell told Crosson and 17 other victims that he would invest their money in insurance ventures that would pay them dividends of 13% a year. Actually, he was running a Ponzi scheme, using money from new victims to make payments--briefly--to earlier ones. O'Donnell was sentenced last month to 16 years in prison after a jury in Denver convicted him on 30 counts of theft, securities fraud and racketeering. Crosson got no money back and must now work to supplement...
...phone con except the scammer and the victim. The rare con artists who are convicted seldom get sentences anywhere near as long as O'Donnell's 16 years. Far more typical are the prison terms of one to three years imposed on operators of one New York State pyramid scheme. The House in July passed a telemarketing-fraud bill that for the first time sets minimum jail terms for federal convictions. But the minimum will be only six months, or 15 months if the victim is over...
Chad and Howard (Matt Malloy) are two thirtyish corporate types on a six-week assignment in a new city. Howard has been dumped by the fiance he adored. Chad, who tells Howard he too has been abandoned, proposes an elaborate scheme of gender revenge. They will choose a vulnerable woman, begin dating demurely, get her to fall in love. And then drop her. "Let's do it," Chad says. "Let's hurt somebody...
...Northern California land baron, Nelson wants to leave his wife Winona but cannot without impoverishing himself. His tyrannical (and Roman Catholic) father has given Winona title to the house and property as a means of discouraging divorce. But Nelson needs money fast; he chickened out of a cocaine-smuggling scheme in the Rome airport, and now owes an irate druglord back home nearly $100,000. Two men in a camper have already arrived in Mendocino County, inquiring after Nelson's whereabouts. The marijuana plants that he and his partner, Clarence Meadows, are cultivating in a remote canyon on his father...
...color scheme--which includes pale green, pale blue, taupe and ivory--was selected from original paint chips from the houses in consultation with experts...