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...highly personal, unbusinesslike style had its darker side. Bruck provides the most detailed account yet of an illegal cash-skimming operation at the Mob-run Westchester Premier Theater in the 1970s. Ross's best friend, Warner executive Jay Emmett, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud arising from the scheme, and Bruck leaves the unmistakable impression that Ross himself was deeply involved, which Ross steadfastly denied. (Ross cut off Emmett summarily when Emmett began cooperating with the prosecution...
Walsh, who was convicted of heading a scheme to defraud the Dime Savings Bank of New York out of $2.9 million, is presently walled around with legal protections...
...city councillor was convicted of heading a scheme to defraud a branch of the Dime Savings Bank of New York out of $2.9 million...
Schwartz and Jarosiewicz were the key witnessesagainst Walsh, testifying that he masterminded thesecond mortgage scheme. Assistant U.S. attorneyPeter. J. Mullion produced extensive documentationshowing purchase and sale agreements where Walsh'ssignature had been whited out in an attempt tocover up the councillor's involvement...
...consequences of the Spanish invasion were of course profound and enduring. We can read about one of them in any recent newspaper: the peasants of Mexico's Chiapas province are rebelling against a landholding scheme that has remained essentially unchanged since it was imposed by the Spanish four bitter centuries...