Forum Newsfront

January, 1984

Nice TrySanta Cruz--The 40-year-old artist who said he "meditated" his two-dollar bank account into more than $4,000,000 by way of an automatic-teller machine ("Forum Newsfront," February) has been found guilty of grand theft for starting to withdraw the money. The prosecutor convinced the jury that the defendant's meditation was more like manipulation, accomplished by punching in large deposits that the computer gullibly assumed were matched by funds in empty deposit envelop...