Word: frauds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...liens filed against the property of government officials and others, then issue worthless money orders or checks using that property as collateral. Some unwary businesses, car dealerships, even the irs, have accepted them. Meanwhile, the Freemen have allegedly harassed local officials and brazenly taught weekend seminars in fraud and larceny to hundreds of out-of-state visitors. The attendees then spread out to practice what the Freemen preached: that bank debts and other obligations are invalid because the banking system and the U.S. government are themselves illegal...
...their debts were a legal illusion. Some Garfield County ranchers and farmers discovered the Freemen idea in 1992, when they attended an invitation-only seminar in Great Falls, Montana. It was organized by Roy Schwasinger, founder of We the People, one of several organizations promoting Freemen-style ideologies and fraud schemes. Depending on his audience, Schwasinger told listeners that either the Federal Government or the U.S. banking system had lost a class-action suit for defrauding farmers and ranchers. To cash in on their share of the (nonexistent) settlement, he offered them a helpful kit of documents. Price...
...converts to casino culture are just beginning to compute the social costs of compulsive gambling, which, studies show, leads to lost productivity, bankruptcies, divorce, suicide, child abuse and crimes such as robbery, fraud and embezzlement (with consequent police, prosecution and imprisonment costs). Nevada, where gambling is the dominant industry, has a suicide rate more than double the national average, and led the nation in child-abuse fatalities in the period when casinos were still limited to Nevada and Atlantic City. Within two years of Deadwood's casino influx, child-abuse reports rose 43% and domestic violence...
AILING. TAMMY FAYE MESSNER, 54, former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker; with colon cancer. Her current husband, Roe Messner, sentenced to prison last week for bankruptcy fraud, has prostate cancer...
...media and militia members. FBI agents surrounded the compound March 25, when two Freemen leaders were arrested. Since then, three others have been taken into custody. One member of the group, Richard E. Clark, surrendered to federal authorities on Saturday and will be arraigned Monday on charges of fraud, conspiracy and armed robbery...