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...Ever since we allowed Indians to have gaming, we have made them into wonderful bets for big-money interests," says Representative Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican who opposes the Quiet Hawk group's efforts. His district includes much of the land entangled in what he calls the group's "bogus" land claims, which sweep across much of western Connecticut, including land occupied by Bridgeport city hall, Trumbull town hall, the headquarters of People's Bank and hundreds of private homes. Quiet Hawk retorts that the casino issue came up long after his group began its quest for recognition and real...
...group was shocked that McCain mobilized so many voters. "Bush's people were very confident in the last couple of days that they'd get a bounce from his win last week in South Carolina and would take Michigan decisively," said Carney. "They've already worked out this bogus line that Democrats are voting tactically - they're loading the primaries for McCain because they've got a better chance of beating him in November." (In fact, polls show McCain beating probable Democratic candidate Al Gore by 24 percent as opposed to Bush's 5 percent...
...expense investigating Perez's leads into erroneous convictions. Investigators visited jails throughout California and as far away as South America to corroborate Perez's stories with suspects he said were wrongly convicted, and they have thus far produced 99 cases in which they're confident Rampart CRASH produced bogus convictions. L.A. County D.A. Gil Garcetti believes there could be thousands more, while Parks estimates that the cost of the ensuing lawsuits could run into the hundreds of millions. "When this initially happened," notes Reed, "the people in the Rampart neighborhood came out and supported the police. The CRASH division...
...Amazon employees over a four-week period treated me as if I had a legitimate concern, while the other online sites insinuated I was just a thin-skinned author who couldn't take any criticism. The Amazon people took the time to actually read the reviews, concluded they were bogus and quickly dropped them. Bezos' employees ought to share in this honor by TIME. MARK RENZ Lehigh Acres...
...hard to think of anyone who could resist the call of today's roaring bull market. So when agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to crack a Colombian cocaine ring three years ago, they opened a fully licensed--but also fully bogus--brokerage in suburban Atlanta to get inside the drug world. Even though the customers never made a single stock trade--double-digit stock gains are paltry in contrast to 400% returns on cocaine--the sting paid off last week with federal indictments of five Colombians, who are believed to have ties to the Cali drug cartel...