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both suits out of court after agreeing to pay about $ 175,000 in each case. At the slander trial, Aron cited Brock's use of the term "convicted" for verdicts that had come in civil court. Lawyer Arthur G. Kahn, who had prosecuted one of the fraud cases, testified against Aron at the
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in which former business partners accused her of fraud or other offenses. A federal judge overturned one of the verdicts, and Aron
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