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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In contrast to these modest sums, the later scheme allegedly reaped almost $700,000 in net profits. Brant pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraud in July, agreeing to pay a penalty of about $450,000 in profits, to give up the securities business permanently, and to cooperate in the prosecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Impropriety or Criminality? | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

Zaccaro's troubles are certainly not all his doing. He is an Italian American who owns real estate in New York's Little Italy; questions about any possible underworld ties are constantly asked, as if such a connection were inevitable. Even the most tenuous bits of information made huge, unfair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show and Tell | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

During the Los Angeles trial that ended with John De Lorean's acquittal on charges of drug conspiracy and possession, a striking tableau could be seen. At the defendant's table sat De Lorean, tall and handsome, boyish despite his 59 years, as smooth and sleek as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Are Bad Guys Good Witnesses? | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

But as the Claiborne case proved, convictions can rarely be won on the basis of such testimony. "Corroboration is the key," says Stephen Trott, chief of the Justice Department's criminal division. "Without corroboration, you're probably dead in the water." In the De Lorean case, the prosecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Are Bad Guys Good Witnesses? | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

DIED. Truman Capote, 59, eternal enfant terrible of American letters and author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood and several collections of short stories; of unknown causes; in Bel Air, Calif, where his body was found by police in a mansion owned by Johnny Carson's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 3, 1984 | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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