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...narcotics squad from the county sheriff's department was investigating a money-laundering scheme. When the suspects left behind $498,000 in cash, the plainclothesmen skimmed $48,000 in booty. The "money launderers" turned out to be FBI agents, and their hidden cameras were rolling. Charges of conspiracy, theft and tax evasion were brought against the seven for that and other skimming operations. They received prison sentences last week of two to five years...
...course all novels are gossip novels, and most are rip-offs, generally of the author's friends and relatives. But the ethics of pilferage becomes woozy when too recognizable caricatures of dead grandees wallow in unlikely misbehavior. Ethical questions waft away, though, when the theft works. Then the stolen characters come to life; for instance, the dead King whom Shakespeare slurred as a bottled spider struts in his play as Richard...
...ferocity of the attack on the environment was matched by the depredations inflicted on the Kuwaiti people. The killing, torturing, kidnapping and theft that marked the entire occupation accelerated to an even more barbaric pace as the occupiers prepared to cut and run. The fleeing Iraqis apparently abducted thousands of Kuwaitis whose whereabouts remain unknown. Many Kuwaitis are convinced that the Iraqis dragged off the captives to use as bargaining chips in negotiations with the allies...
Gangs conduct classes for young boys in the fine arts of car theft and burglary. They use Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles to carry out bank robberies and payroll heists. Much of the crime is vicious. A bunch of street toughs recently murdered an elderly New Zealand tourist and stole his wristwatch after he made a wrong turn and wound up in Soweto after dark. "This is because black people are suffering," a black burglar told a white Johannesburg man as he robbed his house and raped a woman friend...
Prompted by a Black undergraduate's claim that she was unjustly accused of theft by security guard in the Harvard Coop last month, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III has asked the store to institute racial sensitivity training programs for all employees and to discipline the staff members involved...