Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes you have to be sick to become a millionaire. Relying on little more than their own fertile imaginations, Mordo and Jacqueline Danyali of Hollywood conjured up three bogus companies. Using the names of real and fictitious doctors, the couple allegedly proceeded over a period of more than two years to file 1,500 fraudulent health claims with more than 100 insurance companies. The police caught up with them in March. By then, according to the federal case against them, the Danyalis had already netted $1.4 million...
...openers, Clinton deserves considerable praise for having pushed so vigorously for an honest whack at the nation's deficit. The infamous 1990 budget agreement, to which the current plan is so often falsely compared, was dishonest in almost every key respect, primarily because its assumptions were bogus. With Bush's agreement, Congress blithely adopted a set of pie-chart-in- the-sky economic projections almost double the average predicted by private forecasters. When the revenues did not match expectations -- and health-care expenses soared -- the deficit exploded. Clinton, by contrast, has embraced decidedly conservative growth estimates (lower, in fact, than...
...week, you could visit a psychiatric hospital that (so the story claimed) confines teenage patients with fraudulent diagnoses so it can rake in the insurance money; watch an undercover investigator expose a sleazy gas-station operator who has been cheating customers; glimpse the glittery world of two bogus Hollywood producers charged with bilking investors; and meet a creepy forensic pathologist who is accused of falsifying autopsy reports and who keeps blood samples in his refrigerator alongside the mustard...
...explain the rash of faked complaints and scams in the Pepsi scare? Such bogus reports often break out after an initial believable case is given wide publicity. Sometimes it's a simple craving for attention or a prank. A 21-year-old man arrested last week in Branson, Missouri, admitted that he'd lied about finding a hypodermic needle in a Pepsi can "to see what the police department would do." A 62-year-old California woman confessed to police that she fabricated a similar story as a joke on her daughter...
What motivated so many bogus complaints about Pepsi...