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Plotkin, a former Lowell House resident who was arrested for the scheme in April 2006, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and eight counts of insider trading in a U.S. District court in New York...
According to the original criminal complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange commission, Plotkin and Pajcin were able to create a “widespread and brazen international scheme of serial insider trading...
...adopt their Guatemalan daughter, Ella, only to find out later that her biological mother "was essentially a baby factory" who had sold many of her eight children to a dealer, says the adoptive father. "It felt almost dirty, like we were involved in a child brokering scheme...
...Much Per Day is That Doggie? The best use for a rent-a-puppy scheme like those recently launched in California would be to allow children who have been clamoring for a dog to have one temporarily to make sure they are really willing and able to look after it [Aug. 20]. That way, the entire burden of care would not fall on a parent. Barbara Harwood, Auckland
...time he joined his father-in-law's business in 1960, real estate development work had dried up completely. Instead the company tied up with two U.S. firms to manufacture electric motors and automotive batteries. The joint ventures eventually foundered, but by 1980, Singh had hit upon a new scheme. "I was hungry," he says. "And the best things in life are done when you are hungry for more business...