It was settled mid-January; the Gores' insurance companies shelled out some $300,000, having extracted a promise from Royall (who is halfway through building the marina) never to go after their land again.
For years, Mr. Davis testified, he was suspicious of fraud, but he was not certain until 1991, when Mr. Stanford ordered him to fly to London merely to fax to a prospective investor a fake confirmation from a shell insurance company Mr. Stanford had concocted.
Since then, they've taken on Dow Chemical, The Coca Cola Company, Halliburton, ExxonMobil, Shell, insurance companies, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the late economist Milton Friedman and his defense of free markets, Reagan, Thatcher, Clinton, Bush, Schwarzenegger, former CEOs turned lobbyists, opponents of climate change.
He admitted that he falsely characterized more than $180,000 of the money that he received from the insurance brokerage through a shell company.
With the debate over the 2012 Farm Bill currently underway in the Senate, most of the media's attention has been focused on how direct payments -- subsidies doled out regardless of actual farming -- are being replaced with crop insurance, in a classic shell game that Big Ag's powerful lobby is likely to pull off.
LESLIE LAND CREATURE FEATURE -- Surround your tulips, crocuses and bluebells with Bulb Insurance, aka crushed oyster shells -- a natural, nontoxic and long-lasting repellent (burrowing rodents can't bite through hard, sharp things).
Samsung engineers, take note: A clamshell is useful insurance when you're shelling out that many clams.
Rowan Atkinson's insurance company have had to shell out over £900,000 to repair his McLaren F1, making it the biggest car insurance bill ever recorded in Britain.
If you are a rational 20-something without insurance now, would you rather shell out $2,500 a year to buy a lost-cost policy or pay a fine that is less than one-third of that?
They can go work elsewhere, pay much more money for health insurance on the open market or shell out cash for medical care that's not covered by their benefits.
