Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mistake was to cross swords with Lloyd's of London. When coffee prices plunged in 1986, leaving him exposed, he handed the insurers $6 million in claims for the alleged theft of a Song dynasty vase and commercial losses on an undocumented coffee shipment. Underwriters refused to pay, so Bilbeisi sued them for punitive damages, prompting Lloyd's to launch a deeper investigation. Result: last December Lloyd's filed a civil racketeering suit against Bilbeisi and B.C.C.I., charging the two with a long list of illegal acts, including coffee smuggling, arms dealing, customs violations, money laundering and paying bribes...
...bruises like a badge of the black woman's burden. In one devastating montage, Rich shows a series of row houses, apartment courtyards, projects. From inside each one a man yells at a woman, and something breaks. It is enough to drive a decent boy like Dennis to grand theft to get straight out of Brooklyn. At the end of Brooklyn, two major characters die, simultaneously though apart. No twist of plot is too improbable for the makers of New Black City films, because they know that no tragedy is uncommon to the ghetto...
Johnson chalked many of the thefts up to "unlocked doors." And the committee report backed him up, saying their survey determined "a high correlation between the number of incidents of theft and unlocked doors...
Daily chatter inside the Cambridge Police Department over the past 12 months has centered around a lot more than the latest auto theft or sexual assault...
...money from a second-mortgage loan. Her friends, suspicious of Koch, hired a private investigator. Shortly after Koch's arrest became public, Kenosha officials began to receive reports from police departments around the country. If convicted, Koch faces up to 20 years in prison in Wisconsin alone for theft and forgery...