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Search results for "personal wealth" ...
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Fast Forturne, Big Spending
The Seminole Tribe of Florida has a "$1 billion-a-year gambling empire" and is one of the wealthiest tribes in America. The Sun-Sentinel looks at how tribal leaders "used millions of the tribes money for their personal benefit with virtually no outside scrutiny."
Tags: Native Americans; Seminole; tribe; Florida; gambling; casino; personal wealth; tribe leaders
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In the Money: Colorado's New Wealth
The Rocky Mountain News' three-part series that looks at Colorado's new dot-com millionaires and the effect their presence has had in the state.
Tags: development; Denver; wealth; Colorado; millionaires; dot-com millionaires; technology boom; personal income
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Coverage of West Virginia's Second Congressional District Race
The series investigated the financial status of the two main candidates. The reporter found out that the Democratic candidate "relied on enormous personal wealth and contributions from fellow trial lawyers". The law firm of the candidate and the major contributors have something in common: they handle "massive lawsuits targeting such hazards as asbestos and tobacco." The reporter revealed that the Republican 'benefited from her national party's strong support and the legacy of her father, an once-important but tarnished political figure." The series also followed the race's ads to find out that the truth and context are "the frequent casualties."
Tags: diskette; PACs; race; contributions; fund raising; disclosure; back taxes; lawsuits; asbestos; tobacco; advertisement; database mapping project
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Why Subway is "The Biggest Problem in Franchising"
Fred DeLuca is a billionaire from the sandwich empire he started with a $1,000 dollar loan at age 17. Look closely, however, and you'll see that Subway wasn't built in quite the same ways as the other franchise empires. DeLuca has used methods all his own, creating a corporate reflection of his complicated personality. The result has been not just enormous wealth but also a set of problems unmatched in the business, including unhappy franchises, disputes with landlords, and run-ins with regulators. Every big franchise has such problems, but Subway has far more trouble than its competitors.
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John Spano (Field of Dreams)
When the new owner of the New York Islanders met with Nassau County officials in the spring of 1997, he was looking for more than just a new arena for the hockey team. John Spano demanded the right to develop a half-billion dollar project in the heart of the 1.3-million person county. But when Spano missed a scheduled $16.8 million payment for the team, a small team of Newsday reporters began looking into the dispute and his claims of vast wealth. They unearthed a startling tale of the fraud he used to win approval from the hockey league and major banks.
Tags: city government
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Z Magazine examines huge differences between the salary of CEO's and that of workers. The article offers statistics and figures to further inform the reader of the problems that arise when CEO's downsize employees for their personal financial gain. ( June 1996)
Tags: Sklar Upsized CEO's Money Wealth Wall street Inflation 4 pgs.
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No title (id: 12523)
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published a series of comprehensive and exclusive reports about the turmoil surrounding freshman U.S. Rep. Enid Greene Waldholtz, R-Utah, and her husband Joseph. The Post-Gazette investigation found that the family trust Joseph Waldholtz said was the source of his personal wealth didn't exist, where Waldholtz fled, and contributors on Enids' Congressional campaign who denied making contributions or were nothing more than ficticious names. (Nov. 14 - 19, 23, 24, 28, Dec. 12 - 14, 16 1995)
Tags: Roddy O'Toole Shelly Torry CAR Husband of Utah congresswoman missing Fraud 43 pgs.
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With God There's No Cap
Newsweek reports that "television evangelist Pat Robertson, who runs a vast Christian ministry and business empire, is one of the most recognizable and powerful members of the religious right movement in the United States today. A man of considerable personal wealth, he has been portrayed in much of the media as a business genius. Newsweek reveals that some of Robertson's followers, enticed by him to join a multi-level marketing company owned by his tax-exempt ministry, the Christian Broadcasting Network, now complain that they were unable to sell."
Tags: non-profits; fraud; investments
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Wealth grows fastest on edges of metro area
Kansas City Star analyzes income data of the Kansas City metropolitan area from the 1990 census and found that personal wealth in the 1980s fanned out into the far-flung suburbs while it shrank in the central city, July 26, 1992.
Tags: Census Bureau; wealth