Battling Tax Evaders, Finance Chief Wins Points With Koch
LEAD: Mayor Koch had just completed a meeting with Representative Richard A. Gephardt, Democrat of Missouri, in the Mayor's City Hall office one day last week. As he walked the Presidential aspirant...
View ArticleMASSACHUSETTS 'MIRACLE' WORKER: Ira Jackson; The Tax Man Goeth - But His...
LEAD: PATRONS at Sullivan's Tap, in the shadow of the Boston Garden, were settling down on a June day last year to watch their beloved Celtics on television when agents from the Massachusetts State...
View ArticleNew York Takes Hard Look At Pension Expert's Taxes
LEAD: Mayor Edward I. Koch said yesterday that New York City was investigating the personal income tax history of its highest-paid official, a newly appointed chief actuary, for possible irregularities.
View ArticleCourt Decision Won't Let Convicted Mayor Stay On
The New Jersey Supreme Court refused today to allow Gerald McCann to remain as Mayor of Jersey City while he appeals his conviction of Federal fraud and income tax evasion charges. The court refused...
View ArticleInfluential Backers Helped Commodities Trader Win Pardon
As part of his successful last-minute bid for a pardon from President Clinton, Marc Rich, the commodities trader who had evaded prosecution for 18 years, received letters of support from dozens of...
View ArticleRich Cashed In a World of Chits to Win Pardon
Late last year, a former Mossad agent who works for Marc Rich came to New York on a delicate mission. The retired spy, Avner Azulay, was hoping to enlist Mr. Rich's estranged former wife, Denise Rich,...
View ArticleOld-Fashioned Graft
As graft goes, New Jersey's latest cases are small and old-fashioned: a mayor keeps $50,000 in bribes around the house, most in the pocket of an old suit in his attic. Another mayor has a contractor...
View ArticleFormer Hudson County Leader Gets 41 Months in Corruption Case
NEWARK, March 24 - Robert C. Janiszewski, the former Hudson County Democratic leader who wielded great influence in state and national politics and wore a wire in corruption investigations, was...
View ArticleProsecutors May Seize a Power Lunch Center in White Plains
Federal prosecutors are seeking to take over Mulino's, a popular restaurant in Westchester County, because its owner was indicted on bankruptcy fraud and tax evasion.
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A Tailor Admits Underpaying on His Taxes by the Millions
Mohanbhai Ramchandani, suit maker for famous athletes, confessed to tax evasion and agreed to spend 1 to 3 years in prison and pay $5.5 million in back taxes and penalties.
View ArticleNational Briefing | Southwest: Texas: Former Mayor Admits Stealing City Money
Former Mayor Reynaldo T. Gutierrez of Cactus and his wife, Lucia, pleaded guilty to charges of theft and tax evasion in the disappearance of $400,000 in money from the municipal treasury. Cactus, 60...
View ArticleMetro Briefing | New Jersey: Burlington Township: Ex-Mayor Guilty In Tax Case
The former mayor of Burlington Township pleaded guilty yesterday to tax evasion in a case that stemmed from profit-making golf tournaments he held for four years. The former mayor, Joseph Foy Sr.,...
View ArticleEx-Atlanta Mayor Given 30-Month Term and Financial Penalty in Tax Case
"I was overcome and almost appalled with disappointment in terms of the breadth and depth of corruption in your administration," a judge told William C. Campbell.
View ArticleNewark’s Ex-Mayor to Face 2 Trials on Corruption Charges
Sharpe James will be tried alone on improper credit card charges, and in a second trial with a businesswoman whom prosecutors say was his companion, on land fraud charges.
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Ex-Mayor of Atlanta Enrolled in Prison Drug Program After Denial of a Problem
Bill Campbell, the former mayor of Atlanta now serving time for tax evasion, was able to shorten his sentence by enrolling in a drug treatment program.
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Mayor and His Wife Are Guilty in Federal Extortion Case in New Jersey
The mayor of Guttenberg, David Delle Donna, and his wife will likely face up to six years in prison and a $350,000 fine after being found guilty of federal extortion and tax charges.
View ArticleCorzine Aide Resigns After Testifying in the Corruption Trial of a Hudson...
Javier Inclan, who had testified he passed a questionable payment from a bar owner to a mayor in Hudson County, resigned on Wednesday.
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Former Newark Mayor Is Sentenced to 27 Months
Sharpe James was sentenced to prison for failing to disclose his romantic relationship with a woman whom he helped to get a real estate deal.
View ArticleGeorgia: Former Mayor Is Released
Former Mayor Bill Campbell of Atlanta, who spent about two years in prison for tax evasion, has been released from a halfway house. Mr. Campbell, who was mayor from 1994 to 2002, was convicted in 2006...
View ArticleFrom a Seat of Power to One on Greyhound
Former Mayor Sharpe James of Newark was released from federal prison and boarded a Greyhound bus home.
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