Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Praise the Lord," said John Z. DeLorean when he heard the not-guilty verdict at his cocaine-trafficking trial last year. But his legal troubles were far from over. A federal grand jury in Detroit last week indicted the once and possibly future automaker on new charges: mail and wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen money, and income tax evasion. The accusations stem from his handling of the finances of DeLorean Motor Co., which went bankrupt in 1982. Investigators charge that DeLorean, 60, bilked his backers out of $8.9 million...
...Because Spielberg has enlisted such directors as Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Clint Eastwood, Paul Bartel and Peter Hyams (Mr. E.T. will direct two of his own the first season), each of the Stories promises a distinctive style. Hyams' episode boasts sepulchral lighting and tension as taut as piano * wire; Bartel's is a slapstick black comedy; Spielberg's two shows are wistful parables about death as creative transcendence. Each offers a unique frisson, to be relived on Monday morning at the playground or around the water cooler...
...specific Hutton employees had been singled out for blame back in May, when the company pleaded guilty to 2,000 counts of wire and mail fraud. The Justice Department's failure to charge any of Hutton's executives raised howls of criticism that cast further harsh light on the company's operations. But, as expected, Bell's report did single out offenders and called for changes in the way Hutton does business. "I think we got the facts," declared Bell, whose team of 14 lawyers interviewed more than 370 current and former Hutton employees. Says James Hanbury, who studies Hutton...
...engaging in a complex check-kiting scheme, many critics complained that Attorney General Edwin Meese had not applied to executive-suite crime the standard that the Reagan Administration invokes for less well-heeled violators. Even though Hutton pleaded guilty to 2,000 separate charges of mail and wire fraud, the Government did not charge any individuals with wrongdoing. Former Attorney General Griffin Bell, who was hired by Hutton to conduct an independent, internal investigation of the case, is expected to set the record straight when he releases his formal report this week...
...brutally smashed an effort by antiapartheid forces to hold a mass protest march. The police used shotguns, rubber bullets, whips and tear gas, and were assaulted in turn by rocks, bottles and homemade gasoline bombs. Angry mobs blocked main highways with barricades of burning tires, mattresses and even barbed wire. At least 32 people were killed in the week's disturbances, most of them by police shotgun fire, bringing to 160 the number who have died since the state of emergency was declared in many black townships. The death toll from political violence over the past year now stands...