Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told them that his wallet and credit cards had been stolen at the airport and that his parents couldn't be reached. The dean's office was unaware of any foul play...
Church administrator Peggy Smith said this was the first time property had been stolen in the break-ins which began just prior to granting of sanctuary to a Salvadoran labor unionist at the church near Harvard University...
...another planeload of Marcos' personal effects arrived at week's end. Solarz said that while he thought it was appropriate for Reagan to offer Marcos sanctuary, the President had certainly not offered Marcos "immunity against civil proceedings brought by the government of the Philippines to recover a fortune stolen from the Philippines...
...arrest, in July 1984, came just six months after Burnett's parole from a federal prison on charges of currency manipulation and possession of stolen stocks, and the con man seemed a sure bet for a return stretch. But he was no run-of-the-mill criminal. For 30 years Burnett had negotiated light sentences for fraud and other crimes by informing for the FBI. Now he again offered to trade, telling the FBI that while working for Systematic Recovery Service, a collection agency trying to secure municipal contracts in New York and Chicago, he had stumbled into widespread political...
With a cold eye and a fine sense of irony, Pileggi records the underside of industry as his informer dashes from scheme to scam, driving from North Carolina to New York with a load of untaxed cigarettes, delivering stolen cars for shipment to Haiti, reburying a murdered colleague whose resting place is threatened by a new housing development. Hill forms no permanent friendships and makes no future plans. Everything is for the moment, and associates, even those who gave him a hand, are betrayed for the sake of the bigger payoff, the easier deal. Only at home is life...