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...revered as the "King of New York." U.S. law-enforcement officials were less adulatory. They knew the dapper Nigerian as a man of more than two dozen aliases who allegedly ran the largest ring of credit-card thieves in the U.S. Authorities busted Adekanbi last September on credit-fraud charges. Then last week, after a five-month investigation, they brought some 200 counts against the still-jailed Adekanbi and seven other Nigerians, including Adekanbi's wife Mary. The quondam king could go to prison for up to 25 years. "We've broken the back of this ring," said Queens assistant...
Forbes also finds himself having to explain some gaps between words and deeds. An outsider campaigning against waste, fraud and abuse, Forbes was very forgiving of profligacy during his only government tour, when he served as the unpaid chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting, an independent government agency that oversaw the operations of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty from 1985 to '93. Far from downsizing in his tiny corner of the government, his agency's budget doubled during his tenure. Government audits considered it "improper" that under Forbes' leadership, Eugene Pell, the president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty...
Wigand's formerly low profile was blown sky-high in November, during a controversy over CBS' 60 Minutes' cutting back a segment on cigarettes because of fear of legal retaliation. Wigand was revealed to be CBS' Deep Throat, and B&W immediately slapped him with a lawsuit charging theft, fraud and breach of contract, stemming from a confidentiality agreement he had signed when he left B&W in 1993. Wigand nevertheless gave his Mississippi deposition. After somebody leaked a copy of his testimony to the Wall Street Journal, which published key excerpts and lofted the entire document onto the World...
WASHINGTON, D. C.: Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell took time out from the 21 month prison term he's serving for Whitewater-related fraud to go before the Senate Whitewater Committee for the third time on Wednesday. Hubbell denied that he intentionally misled federal regulators in their inquiry two years ago into a possible conflict of interest in the Rose law firm where he and Hillary Clinton were both partners. Hubbell's testimony was prompted by the discovery last month in the Clinton residence of Rose law firm billing records that had been missing under subpoena for 18 months...
...move that some considered a slap on the wrist, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges against Orange County, its board of supervisors and its two top financial officials. The sec cited fraud, misrepresentation and a failure to disclose key information in the sale of 11 highly risky bond issues, but the agency did not seek financial penalties. The county filed for bankruptcy 13 months...