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To: Rarebird who wrote (50180)	3/8/2000 8:55:00 AM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116752

The US Dollar Index is trading at 106.50 as I speak. Will yesterday's rally evaporate today as quickly as it arose?

To: Rarebird who wrote (50180)	3/8/2000 10:08:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116752

Anyone else catch AG was (as I am) also concerned about fraud, bank losses, easy lending practices, & what happens when the good times do end?

To: Rarebird who wrote (50180)	3/8/2000 3:53:00 PM
From: Enigma	Respond to of 116752

Am not denying it is a good thing - but stocks go up often through association with buzz words.

To: Rarebird who wrote (50180)	3/9/2000 3:27:00 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116752

Much has been written here about "what if" GATA were to have profits overturned. Seems "Unjust Enrichment" can be currently against the law(even when you didn't steal or defraud): Wednesday March 8 9:31 AM ET Woman Charged With Bank Fraud in U.N. Account Error NEW YORK (Reuters) - A receptionist deep in debt was charged with bank fraud on Tuesday for claiming $700,000 in United Nations funds that mysteriously appeared in her checking account were proceeds of a lottery. Susan Madakor, 40, of Brooklyn, was also charged in Manhattan federal court with making false statement to a bank and bank larceny. The charges carry a total possible prison term of 70 years and fines of over $1 million. According to the complaint, the $700,000 came from 13 foreign governments including France, Italy, Belgium and Turkey and was supposed to be deposited into a United Nations environmental program account. However, due to a one-digit error in the account number, the money was mistakenly wired to Madakor's account at Chase Manhattan Bank, a unit of Chase Manhattan Corp. BanCorp(NYSE:CMB - news) , between February 1998 and October 1999. Madakor withdrew some of the funds and transferred some of the money to other accounts she had at Chase. According to the complaint she spent about $250,000 of the money to pay off $30,000 in credit card debts, purchase a laundromat, open a college fund for her 10-year-old son and start a retirement plan for herself. When Chase discovered the mistake last fall, it froze her accounts at the bank, which at the time held about $450,000. Madakor then sued in New York state court seeking to force Chase to end the freeze. In support of that lawsuit, she signed an affidavit in which she said she believed the funds were the proceeds of an ``international lottery' that she had entered in 1997. Madakor said she had bought $100 worth of tickets using a credit card. A state judge recently rejected her request to unfreeze the money and instead said the case represented ``unjust enrichment' because Madakor knew she was not the legitimate owner of the funds. The federal complaint also alleges that Madakor's statement about winning the money through a lottery was false. It alleges that records of several of Madakor's credit card accounts held in 1997 do not reveal any charges for purchases of lottery tickets. The charges also allege that she had told others that the money came from work she had done as a model and from an inheritance. dailynews.yahoo.com