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The Washington Times, citing a Federal Protective Service report, revealed in May that staff and volunteers at the 1993 Clinton inaugural stole $154,000 worth of electronic equipment used for the festivities.
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In January an investigation by a British network TV news program revealed that the late Ferdinand Marcos stashed away a gold fortune totaling 1,200 tons–the equivalent of 15 percent of the contents of Fort Knox and about 1 percent of all the gold ever mined in the world.
In January five guards at the maximum security prison in Boise, Idaho, were accused of taunting death-row inmates by playing the 1971 Neil Young song “The Needle and the Damage Done” during a scheduled execution-by-injection.
In December in East Bernstadt, Kentucky, Jimmy Humfleet, 33, was charged with the murder of his uncle, Samuel Humfleet. According to the local sheriff, Jimmy said he did it because he caught Samuel having sex with one of two pit bulls belonging to the owner of the trailer where he and his uncle had been partying. Jimmy had called 911 twice that evening to report that his uncle was molesting the dog, and a deputy shot and killed the dog later that evening because it was foaming at the mouth and attacked him. However, an autopsy on Samuel turned up no dog hairs or other evidence that he’d had sex with the dog.
In January and February Oklahoma City police turned up several motorists who’d purchased automobile liability insurance coverage from a company offering “God’s Insurance Policy.” Salesmen had convinced the customers that the $285 policy met the standards of Oklahoma’s mandatory-insurance law, even though it contained mostly text from the Bible, stated that it was “issued by the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost,” and pointed out that since “fear” caused accidents the policy would protect its purchasers even better than commercial insurance.
