Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against Disney about royalties. Then one of the leaders of that group, DARLENE GILLESPIE, who was so popular as a Mouseketeer that she got to sit next to ANNETTE FUNICELLO in the front row of the photo, was sentenced to three years probation for a ham-fisted department-store theft. Most ignominious of all, BILLIE JEAN MATAY (inset) tried to sue Disney over a theft she and her family endured in a Disneyland parking lot. Matay also claimed that her grandchildren suffered emotional trauma when, while being interviewed backstage by security guards, they witnessed Disney characters removing the heads...
...books are)--you probably would have treated it seriously. As a novelist who has more than 25 million books in print in various genres, including historical romance, suspense, fantasy and science fiction, I feel qualified to state that those of us who write books for a living take the theft of our material very seriously. Plagiarism is plagiarism, no matter what the type of book. And it's not funny! PATRICIA MATTHEWS Prescott, Ariz...
...Still smarting from Atlanta's last-minute theft of the centennial Olympiad, Athens is once again the top contender ? closely followed by its centuries-old rival, Rome. But the announcement last week that South African President Nelson Mandela would personally attend the announcement might provide a hot outsider tip: Either Mandela is risking an humiliating photo op when Cape Town loses ? or he knows something the smart money doesn...
...would pay them dividends of 13% a year. Actually, he was running a Ponzi scheme, using money from new victims to make payments--briefly--to earlier ones. O'Donnell was sentenced last month to 16 years in prison after a jury in Denver convicted him on 30 counts of theft, securities fraud and racketeering. Crosson got no money back and must now work to supplement a meager pension. She watches over the houses and pets of absent homeowners in Evergreen, a wealthy suburb of Denver...
...Jose Torres is arraigned in Middlesex County district court on 16 counts of theft and malicious destruction of $750,000 worth of rare books from Harvard libraries. On Apr. 17, Torres is arraigned on 15 additional counts of larceny, receiving stolen property and destroying library materials. Torres allegedly cut out the pages of some of the books and sold others to antique dealers in Grenada, Spain...