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...billion or so that criminals "greenwashed" through institutions in the U.S. last year represents a manyfold increase since 1974. By following these illicit funds to their sources, federal agents hope to nab the high rollers of drug dealing, loan sharking, illegal gambling and prostitution. And since banks are often a key link in the laundering process, the Feds want to get tough about the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, which instructs banks and other financial concerns to file a report (Internal Revenue Service Form 4789) whenever they accept more than $10,000. By running the forms through computers, investigators...
...does not account for the swarm of vouthern Democrats--most of whom are far more conservative than Republican moderates--which has undermined partisan solidarity within the House. Given the ideological similarity between these deviant Democrats and the GOP. Republican strategists would be as pleased as punch to nab just 25 to 30 seats on the other side of the aisle. Such a transfer of power, all agree, would greatly facilitate the initiation of Reagan's agenda, whatever that agenda turns...
...five finishers nab first-team All-Ivy spots...
...which generally counts itself lucky to nab half the incoming aliens even temporarily, tabulated a record 1,251,357 arrests during fiscal 1983, up 22% from the previous year and just about double the figure a decade earlier. In the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, arrests have increased an additional...
Centrella said that he and fellow detectives Robert Sullivan, Bruce Cromwell and Richard Gardner used bank surveillance photographs to help nab the suspect. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was notified of the detectives' inquiry, Centrella added...