Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turns out that none of the Graveses has invited Chuck; each assumes that he is another's friend. By the time they make this discovery, though, it may be too late. Having committed improprieties ranging from theft to sexual assault against individual family members, Chuck seems to be planning something supremely unpleasant for the Graveses as a group. Both phone lines are mysteriously out of order, and neither of the two cars on the isolated premises will start. What is to happen when night falls...
Hasford had been listed as AWB (absent with books) after checking out 87 volumes and 500 periodicals from the Cal Poly library in two weeks last December. Campus police plan to ask the local district attorney to charge the author with grand theft. Hasford's attorney, Louis Blau, contends that "most of those books were purchased at library sales...
...North; and two arms dealers, former Air Force Major General Richard Secord and Iranian-born Businessman Albert Hakim. They were charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. by establishing and concealing a plan for illegally supporting the Nicaraguan contras. The federal grand jury also charged all four defendants with theft of Government property for siphoning off more than $17 million in proceeds from U.S. arms sales to Iran, and with wire fraud resulting from the movement of the money through Swiss bank accounts. The three counts together carry maximum penalties of 20 years in prison and fines totaling as much...
...March 8, a ballot box being used for a WLA poll on the Law Review's recruitment of women was stolen from Harkness Commons. The theft was the latest in a series of incidents of vandalism against the WLA, including the defacing of posters...
...four defendants were charged with conspiracy to defraud the government and commit criminal offenses against it, theft of government property and wire fraud arising from the diversion of arms-sale proceeds...