Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resident reported to CPD that at 2 a.m. at 2 Jefferson Park, he was approached by two black males, both about 18 years of age, who placed a firearm to his head. The suspects then took the victim's wallet, gold chain and wristwatch. The wallet contained $60 in cash and a driver's license...
...raising networks are men such as Switzerland-based Jashar Salihu, a thickly mustached Albanian with a sharply dimpled smile that gives him the aura of a Balkan Tom Selleck. Salihu's Homeland Calling Fund, which has offices around the globe, often channels the money it raises--by courier, in cash--to K.L.A. field commanders, who use it to buy weapons and supplies. Sometimes the flow approaches several million dollars a month, he claims...
...high-tech antitank weapons the K.L.A. at Kosare needs. New K.L.A. recruits are flea-market soldiers, carrying illegally acquired (or stolen) guns and identified by K.L.A. shoulder patches made in Germany. Heavier weapons come largely from East European countries--including the occasional Serbian commander willing to sell for cash...
Whatever the ultimate destination of all this cash, the job of raising it has become increasingly important. In the U.S. fund raisers work from coast to coast, using any Albanian gathering as an excuse for inviting donations--$60,000 was raised at a Chicago funeral, for instance. But all kinds of Albanians are responding to the call. Avzi Bejadini, an ethnic Albanian peasant in western Macedonia, tells how he and others in his village have scraped together money that they pass along to the fund raisers who parade through the countryside. "We all have emptied our pockets because...
...Pennsylvania program is not just justified, it is too timid. It seeks clean hands by paying third parties--the funeral homes--rather than giving cash directly to the relatives. Why not pay them directly? And why not $3,000 instead of $300? That might even address the rich/poor concern: after all, $3,000 is real money, even for bankers and lawyers...