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The Mob on Wall Street: Why you can't see it. An inside look at how organized crime hides its involvement in stock deals.
According to the author, "Usually, the offshore financial mechanisms used by the Mob are enmeshed in secrecy. But lately some answers have turned up--all surrounding the December, 1995, initial public offering of a small Phoenix-based company that makes multimedia components, SC&T International Inc. At the center of this tale are a half-dozen shadowy Bahamian entities and Sovereign Equity Management Corp., which brought SC&T public." The story also includes a supplemental side-bar article entitled, "Why didn't anyone smell a rat at Centennial?"
Tags: Mob; business; money; finances; stocks; fraud; SC&T International; Sovereign Equity Management Corp.; Phoenix
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Just hide me the money
Citibank got caught in a scandal with Raul Salinas, brother of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas, by helping build a money managment system that made illegal funds practically impossible to trace. The situation illuminates the rise in Citibank's "private banking" boom and what that really means.
Tags: banking; fraud; money laundering; tax evasion
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Judge Not
The controversy over President Clinton's nomination of Enrique Moreno's nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has lead to the baladeering of Moreno in folk songs usually reserved for the legendary and the dead. Questions concerning whether his experience was adequate for such a high court were raised to Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Others contend that Moreno, a Harvard Law Graduate with the support of the El Paso Bar Association and congressman Silvestre Reyes (to name just two), is being rejected on other grounds. Gov. George W. Bush refused to intervene in the case, or even comment on it to the magazine.
Tags: Enrique Moreno; El Paso; George W. Bush; President Clinton; Orrin Hatch; Kay Bailey Hutchinson; Federal Judicial Advisory Group; Hopwood v. Texas; judicial appointment
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S.C. Troopers Out of Control
The State finds that the South Carolina Highway Patrol has promoted troopers who have shot and beaten motorists for little apparent reason. The internal affairs unit has cleared troopers cited in brutality and false-arrest cases. Some have been transferred to other parts of the state; some have been allowed to resign without investigations of charges against them. The patrol has kept few records on its rogue officers, and even purged a massive amount of records during an administrative housecleaning several years ago. (Sept. 1-2, 1996)
Tags: Taylor Greene CAR S.C. troopers out of control Contest entry Law enforcement 33 pgs.
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No title (id: 10720)
The State examines the paper mill industry in South Carolina and finds that the boost to the economy comes at a price-sterile forests, polluted rivers and costly subsidies, July 24 - 26, 1994.
Tags: SC Paulsen CAJ Environment FEC EPA Toxic Release 38 pages
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No title (id: 10715)
The Greenville News examined the treatment of emotionally disturbed children who are sent by the state to a private institution. The investigation found that the children rarely if ever recieved therapy from psychiatrists and some them were given drugs they did not need, May 1994.
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No title (id: 10675)
The State reveals that the risk of death from fires in mobile homes is very high in South Carolina, and that the problem could be eliminated with the installation of fire sprinklers in mobile homes.
Tags: SC Pardue Mobile homes Fire marshall records ProfNet HUD
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No title (id: 10674)
The State published a four-day series that revealed that coroners in South Carolina are often untrained; there is no uniform procedure to regulate coroners, there is no centralized or standardized system of recordkeeping. The series also found that in some homicide cases, autopsies are not performed leading to the loss of critical evidence, May 22 - 25, 1994.
Tags: SC Pardue Miller CAR CAJ Autopsies Death certificates 57 pages
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No title (id: 10673)
The State revealed that a recycling plant in a poor rural county was burying hazardous material in its plant; the series also found that federal and state regulators had known about the contamination but had not ordered it cleaned up even though residents had complained about unexplained illnesses. Results included an order from the EPA to the company to clean up the pollution and the plant shut down most of its operations, June - September, 1994.
Tags: SC Decker Fretwell Tax Commission Property Taxes Environment 35 pages
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No title (id: 9979)
Greenville (S.C.) News reveals that South Carolina's parole board released 322 murders sentenced to life in prison after they served an average of 12 years in prison, February 1993.
Tags: SC Smith 26 pages