Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after getting President Nixon's approval on the evening of Jan. 3, 1973, either himself or through an associate, received the money in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, 1973. The timing is crucial. In late 1972, Watergate Burglar Howard Hunt was a loose cannon in the cover-up scheme, demanding through his lawyer, William Bittman, to be paid for his continued silence. The lawyer met with Colson on Jan. 3. Colson later told Dean: "Bittman came at me like a train...
...scheme would offer a measure of certainty for travelers who would not care to wind up loitering at the airport waiting for a seat-as they could under the TWA or Laker plans. But stand-by service might appeal more to those unable to make their reservations well in advance, as Pan Am will require. Unlike Laker, whose stripped-down service will not include meals, drinks or movies, both Pan Am and TWA plan to offer their discount passengers all the economy-class amenities, perhaps at a small surcharge over the Skytrain price for some of them. Also, both American...
...date and place of birth, and Social Security number, I can find out anything else I want to know." Just that much was enough for him to begin unraveling the finances of Robert D. Johnson, a former Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. employee involved in a $26 million wine-importing scheme exposed as a fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Beltrante got Johnson's personnel file from a source in the phone company. Then he made contact with half a dozen of his sources in banks and discovered that Johnson had several checking accounts and a few outstanding loans...
...with Yarbrough, in an Austin motel room and various Houston parking lots and fast-food outlets. The tapes reveal a vengeful Yarbrough considering a murder contract on Bill Kemp, who had been given immunity from prosecution in return for testimony about Yarbrough's role in a 1974 fraud scheme. At the final meeting on June 10, however, Yarbrough turned cautious: "This is not the time to do it. The FBI is investigating me for all sorts of things. They're closing in. Forget about Kemp and all those other people right...
...Hisham Nazir, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, is Minister of Planning. That makes him boss of the world's largest and most ambitious development plan: a fiveyear, $142 billion scheme to build plants, roads and housing...