Admittedly, though, art thievery probably gives you some serious cred with the criminal underbelly.
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The defense will argue that Fastow's thievery was the only illegal activity in Enron's history.
Generous foreign aid Armenia is one of the biggest per-head recipients in the world has obscured government thievery.
He is the patron saint of banking, pawnbroking, pirating, butchery, sailing, thievery, orphans, royalty, and New York City.
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Bassnectar, Thievery Corporation and Common are just a few of the acts performing.
That kind of thievery, says Deutsche Banc's Harp, could make the company profitable in as little as two years.
But the theft of thousands of vases at cemeteries across the country has brought the thievery to new depths.
"There's a great deal of thievery going on on college campuses, " Valenti fumes.
' " He then added, "None of this excuses thuggery and thievery.
Last year was a good one for metal thievery (in Germany and beyond) because the copper price was so high.
Karzai has been regularly accused of prosecuting low-level graft while ignoring massive thievery on the part of friends or powerful allies.
It's also a plain-old crime, undertaken by a government that fancies itself the world's next superpower but acts like a giant thievery corporation.
His brutish family, usually happy to enjoy the fruits of his thievery marmalade and a birthday cake filched from someone's shopping bag turf him out.
"So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery, " Mr. Murdoch wrote.
The latter has been much criticised because some of the buyers turned out to be stupendous crooks, for whose thievery Fobaproa also paid.
Other acts among the lineup of some 130 bands include Phoenix, Thievery Corporation, Tegan and Sara, Cat Power, New Order and Lana Del Rey.
The petty thievery was bad enough, but what really irked his dad, Kim Sung Bae, was that none of the stuff he bought was real.
In fact, some have said he has compared homosexuality to thievery.
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The targets: members of a nationwide ring that used an inventive combination of old-fashioned thievery and high-tech fraud to loot the bank accounts of unsuspecting victims.
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It's about charges of thievery and revenge by proxy, competing senses of entitlement and justice, and irreparably hurt feelings--all eating away at a family that once hung tightly together.
The manifold pied pipers of this ethical plague, not the mice they mislead, bear the primary responsibility for the culture of thievery that is corroding the fabric of our Republic.
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Radio Farda, a U.S.-funded Farsi-language radio station ?? la Radio Free Europe, should hammer home the thievery of Iran's rulers and thereby help to undermine whatever is left of their legitimacy.
In other thievery news, two potential Darwin Award World Stupidity Award recipients plotted to steal 300 iPhones destined for Hong Kong right off of the truck that they were delivering them on.
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Sure, her agency missed warnings about the grand thievery of Bernie Madoff, the 2008 meltdown and failed to enact a pro-investor fiduciary standard for brokers, but she can say that she revived the agency at a time when it needed to re-assert itself.
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"As soon as one or more of these major corporate figures is indicted and convicted for the thievery that occurred at the expense of the American investor, I think confidence will gradually come back, " said U.S. Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-Louisiana, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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