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SENTENCED. JACK ABRAMOFF, 47, Washington lobbyist who pleaded guilty to offering bribes to members of Congress; to five years and 10 months in jail, in a separate fraud case; for using a fake $23 million wire transfer--intended to prove a down payment had been made--to qualify for a loan to buy a fleet of gambling ships; in Miami. Abramoff was allowed to remain free to assist the investigation into the congressional lobbying scandal...
...burned in an Internet auction--not by far. According to the list of top consumer complaints to the Federal Trade Commission for 2005, released in January, Internet-related scams accounted for 46%, or 316,000, of all fraud gripes last year. And the percentage of Internet frauds with "wire transfer" as the reported payment method more than tripled from...
...Asked the same question, Devin D. Smith ’09 said that Dunster would be his worst-case scenario.“I’ve heard terrible things,” he said. If after a year of House life, students are unhappy with their lot, transferring to another House is an option.During the first round of the transfer process this year, there were 166 applications for transfer and 121 were approved, according to Nelson. There is also a second opportunity at the end of the spring term to transfer to another House.—Staff writer...
...thought of coming to Cambridge still lingers in the back of his mind. Cheek confesses that the original plan was always to go somewhere else for a year and then move to Harvard. The admissions office told him that he’d be a great transfer student once he got readjusted to the pace of academic life.But a few months removed from the fateful day he received the rejection letter, Cheek contends that he doesn’t want to commit to anything too hastily.“To an extent, going to Harvard was a dream...
...Serb leader was not in his grave before the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague called for a renewed effort to apprehend the two most wanted fugitives from the Balkan wars: Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. "Now more than ever I expect Serbia to arrest and transfer [Mladic and Karadzic] to the Hague," said Carla del Ponte, the tribunal's chief prosecutor. So far attempts to arrest the two men by both Serb authorities and nato peacekeepers have been notable only for their complete failure. Karadzic, 60, a former psychiatrist, led the breakaway Bosnian Serbs during...