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...case, last week finished repaying that sum plus damages, costs and interest. Former Tory cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken also served time for perjuring himself during a libel action he brought against the Guardian, which had accused him of accepting gifts. By 1999 Aitken was bankrupt, his legal bill still unpaid. Since Major's libel actions never came to trial - and because they predated a change in the law that since 1997 requires parties to a civil action to sign a statement of truth - he is unlikely to face a perjury prosecution. But that doesn't mean he can breathe easily...
...tried to make the job easier by linking government databases and requiring firms to report new employees to child-support agencies. The Bush Administration made deadbeats an issue in July when it began arresting dozens of delinquent parents nationwide. But collection rates are still feeble. The amount of unpaid child support nearly doubled from 1996 to 2000, according to the latest available figures from the General Accounting Office, paving the way for more and more private firms to move in. "When a custodial parent comes to us, they have on average not been getting money for four years," says David...
...thinking that routinely takes place inside the Defense Policy Board, the Secretary's private think tank in a building where helmets often trump thinking caps. Chaired by Richard Perle--a Reagan Pentagon official whose hard-line views won him the title "Prince of Darkness"--the board gives its 31 unpaid members something every Washington player wants: unrivaled access without accountability. Perle uses his post as a springboard for his unilateralist, attack-Iraq views to try to whip the Bush Administration into action. But despite its name, the board does not make policy. As the Saudi episode shows...
...banks, and $65 million of the debt is secured by ImClone shares. Private investigators say he used 21 of his most prized artworks--by Picasso, Chagall, Giacometti and others--as collateral for one of his dozens of loans. He has been sued several times--for bouncing checks and for unpaid bills--and has been slapped with numerous tax liens...
...personnel director of a New York City bank began to notice that things weren't quite right at her 85-year-old mother's home in Connecticut. "The house was in total disarray," she recalls. "There were piles of unopened mail stuffed everywhere, with bills months old and unpaid. But she was writing checks to buy magazines and knickknacks to enter sweepstakes...