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...paper, Miniscribe certainly looked like a highflyer. The Colorado-based company's financial statements in the mid-1980s painted it as a vigorous, healthy computer-parts maker with a bright future. But an internal investigation drew quite a different picture. The probe uncovered massive fraud by senior managers, who shipped boxes of bricks labeled as disk drives and counted them as sales. Investigators blamed executives for the company's cooked books, but bondholders also sued Miniscribe's auditors, Coopers & Lybrand, for conducting faulty audits. In February a jury stunned the accounting profession by ordering C&L to pay damages...
...shake up a scandal-scarred, good-ole-boy department. As one of Brown's "kamikaze kids," Watson radiated an I'm-brighter-than-you-a re aggressiveness with comments like "that's a spurious argument." But as assistant chief Tom Koby, a reformist ally, puts it, "Betsy's a highflyer, a racehorse. Everyone who's done battle with her, she's kicked their butt...
...Michel Vaujour, 35, perhaps France's most notorious criminal and a four-time escapee from French justice. Convicted of crimes ranging from theft to attempted murder, Vaujour made a spectacular prison getaway last May by clinging to the skid of a helicopter piloted by his wife Nadine. The onetime highflyer, who had 28 years yet to serve, could face up to 20 more years if convicted on bank-robbery charges...
...Gotti was considered a highflyer and was working for the Gambino ^ family underboss, Aniello Dellacroce, a Mafia traditionalist whom Gotti emulated. He endeared himself to the Gambino family when, in 1973, he took part in the killing of a 6-ft. 4-in. Irishman who had supposedly kidnaped and murdered a nephew of Carlo Gambino's. Gotti pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter and served two years in Green Haven prison...
...year of record deficits. Experts now fear that some weaker airlines may follow the route of Braniff International, which declared bankruptcy last May. Among those considered at risk: Pan American, which had $327 million in operating losses last year, the most for any airline; and Air Florida, a onetime highflyer that encountered turbulence after expanding too fast. The test for some carriers could come quickly, since the late winter months are normally slack ones for air travel...