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...make the choice, so he skipped town for New York City. Looking older than his years, he acquired a pilot's uniform and a forged ID. He was soon afforded many boons--free trips around the country, girls (who flocked to this really cute guy in his fly-boy suit) and, best of all, the ability to cash fraudulent checks largely on the basis of his assured and glamorous presence. Before Abagnale's career ended five years later--the movie compresses the time frame--he had also passed himself off as a doctor and lawyer and acquired $2.5 million...
...theater and asked police to inject the unconscious hostages. But police administered the injections incorrectly, he said, or not at all. "I hate the terrorists who took my daughter hostage," says Tatyana Frolova, a notary public whose teenage daughter Dasha died in the siege and who is considering a suit. "But those who ordered what they called the 'rescue operation' I hate even more." --By Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...money laundering. "They're small, easily portable, of value and have a pretty universal market base," says John Auerbach, 33, a money-laundering expert with the risk-consulting firm Kroll, based in New York City. "They're almost like currency in some places." What's new in the E.U. suit is its allegation that not only did RJR executives know about their cigarettes' being used this way but also that it was "part of their operating business plan to sell cigarettes to and through criminal organizations." The E.U. says RJR gave its "criminal customers" special treatment: removing the tracking codes...
...Nightmare Does Nestlé know it's Christmas? The Swiss food behemoth (net profit last year: $4.69 billion) decided to pursue a $6 million claim against the government of Ethiopia for a 27-year-old suit, at a time of year when people are supposed to be focusing on the less fortunate. Company spokesman François Perroud found himself facing irate BBC Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys: "You're going to get this money whether people starve or not." Replied Perroud: "I can't quite understand your hostility." Humphrys: "There are starving people in Ethiopia, that's where...
...affidavits, filed earlier this year, then charged that the company tried to intimidate the tenants into dropping their law suit by questioning their citizenship status...