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Starting with a bankroll of $2,000, Gourley managed to collect 35 handguns, four shotguns and $800 in special donations before running out of money last week. Some of the gun traders could not be paid, but they did not seem to mind. Yet not all of them had the purest motives. One man vowed to use his cash bounty as a down payment on an assault rifle. Another threatened to kill the priest. Still others bought cheap $30 guns and sold them to Gourley for a $70 profit...
...satisfied with all his claimed wealth, he continued to indulge his compulsion for risk taking, and it backfired badly. Koskotas obtained fake Social Security numbers for several of his painters who were illegal aliens -- federal prosecutors charge that he created fictitious names -- and then used them in efforts to collect unemployment insurance claims and income tax refunds. In 1979, before Koskotas was indicted by the U.S. Attorney, he returned to Greece with his wife and four children. A year later, in 1980, the U.S. formally charged him with stealing $40,000. In the years that followed, Koskotas traveled back...
Lorenzo stressed the filing covered only Eastern and not its parent Texas Air Corp., of which he is chairman. But yesterday, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Oh.) filed a bill to allow Eastern creditors to collect from the parent company...
Brown, however, learned last Sunday that because he is a JV basketball player, and the award was given at a Harvard-sponsored function, he could not collect the tickets...
Brown, a prospect for next year's varsity basketball team, said he has decided not to collect the prize. The prize is sponsored by a local travel agency...