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Pavlovich, who was expelled from the Law School once before for submitting a bogus application, re-applied under an alias and allegedly slipped a second transcript past unsuspecting admissions officers...
...rigorously, too thoroughly, too well. Specifically, the court found that the committee had not capitalized on several chances to redistrict for greater racial balance in the schools, had insisted on building new schools at the center of heavily mono-ethnic areas, and had allowed students at least two bogus "options" set up in name for the sake of integration, but to which exception after exception was then made...
...rigorously, too thoroughly, too well. Specificially, the court found that the committee had not capitalized on several chances to redistrict for greater racial balance in the schools, had insisted on building new schools at the center of heavily mono-ethnic areas, and had allowed students at least two bogus "options" set up in name for the sake of integration, but to which exception after exception was then made...
Small wonder. Inmates apparently learned how to crack the computer code governing Internal Revenue Service audits. Since prisoners must file tax returns on any outside income, some saw a golden opportunity. Knowing how to hoodwink the computer, they loaded their returns with all kinds of bogus claims for refunds, with little fear of being audited. One convict was finally caught. Last week he went on trial for receiving $20,000 in illegal refunds. Others are sure to follow him to the dock, since the total rip-off could range anywhere from $150,000 to $6 million. Back to making license...
...only one of several cases to emerge in a mushrooming scandal involving Ohio's workmen's compensation system, which, with assets of $1.5 billion, is the largest such program in which the state is the sole insurer. More than 1,000 suspect claims and scores of bogus companies are currently under scrutiny. The total cost of Ohio's Watergate, as a state investigator called it, to employers that support the workmen's comp system could reach into the millions...