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...After six weeks on a regular show, God's gift to the mascara industry has quit. The Jim J. and Tammy Faye Show, airing in almost half the country, proved to be too much for the former wife of disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, especially while husband Roe Messner faces fraud charges...
...period to replenish the 401(k)," said Baumohl. "If they don't, they are aware of the consequences -- that the government will go after them much more aggressively and they will get a reputation among American workers for being irresponsible with retirement savings." The 401(k) is vulnerable to fraud because rules regulating the pension plan allow employers up to 90 days to deposit employees' money into program. Already, the government has investigated 602 cases and closed 188, netting $5 million in payments. Many of these cases occurred at small- and medium-size firms, companies that are often tempted...
...virtual goner. Dismissing Clinton's info-superhighway pep talks as showboating, the industry is focusing on a menu of grievances, including increased corporate taxes, burdensome accounting-reform proposals and, most of all, Clinton's failed veto of a law making it easier for companies to prevail in securities-fraud lawsuits. Silicon Valley successfully pressed for a congressional override, maintaining that its volatile stocks have been hit hard by frivolous suits. High-tech executives are cruising for a G.O.P. presidential alternative. A favorite, California Governor Pete Wilson, crashed early. THE BALLOTS HEARD ROUND THE WORLD...
...additional benefit of computerization, Silberstein said, is that it helps avoid any concern over voter fraud--a problem which had plagued elections in previous years...
Adekanbi had previously been deported from the U.S. for credit-card fraud, only to filter back by using a fake passport. When police arrested him, his two-bedroom Queens apartment was littered with boxes of stolen credit-card slips that, authorities believed, gang members used to set up phony accounts. The closets were stuffed with fashionable men's suits, chic handbags and Italian leather shoes, with price tags attached. Adekanbi, says assistant district attorney Diane Peress, "liked to play Santa Claus" by responding to shopping lists from friends in Nigeria. They will surely miss...