Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many large firms are reluctant to acknowledge the theft of secrets for fear of compounding the damage. "Most executives would rather bury the losses in earnings statements than admit that they've lost the family jewels," says New Jersey Consultant Menkus. Businessmen are also hesitant to sue because court cases can both reveal important details of the stolen material and provide an inside look at a company's security system...
Dave Roberts, a known criminal and narcotics user, was to testify last October in a trial arising from the theft of $100,000 worth of integrated electronic circuits in Santa Clara, Calif. The defendant was ultimately convicted, but without Roberts' help. One month before the trial, he was murdered execution-style and dumped in a shallow grave in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains...
...catch to date suggests what is at stake. Indictments for food-stamp fraud last year totaled 799, nearly double the number in 1980; the tally this year, involving 40 states, Guam and Puerto Rico, has already topped 800. In the largest theft uncovered so far, four employees of the Government Development Bank in Puerto Rico stole $100,000 worth of stamps a day for four years, for a total take of $100 million. They were finally caught last May by Agriculture Department agents...
...told him that they had been invited to parties at which Congressmen asked for sex in return for continued employment. CBS put the frightened page on its Evening News program, using silhouetted settings to obscure his features. An 18-year-old former page, who has been accused of car theft and writing bad checks, told CBS he had had sex with three Congressmen...
...anti-poverty programs: Reagan isn't even a good supply-sider. He is trying to implement opinions that were proved wrong at least 50 years ago, to cut welfare, food stamps. CETA jobs and training, and force poor people to earn honest livings in drug-dealing, prostitution, car theft and mugging. Some may find good careers as Mafia executives. In applying for jobs, poor people should be persuasive--would a Saturday Night Special be sufficient? No, I don't like Reagan's policies. Reaganomics is very socially destructive--it is class war. John R. Tellefson A Kansas Liberal