Word: defrauded
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...almost as damning as an indictment. Emphasizing that no one is being formally charged, the judge's report nonetheless names Frenkil and his firm as co-defendants in a proposed grand jury indictment and notes that the grand jury was willing to charge him with conspiring to defraud the U.S. Government of the right to the "disinterested services" of its officials by threats, promises and bribery. It is hardly less sparing of Long and Boggs, noting that they committed no criminal act but linking their names with a man who the grand jury believes...
...page report called The Chemical Feast. It was based on a two-year study of the FDA by Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader and 20 student volunteers, most of them specialists in medicine and law. Their report accused the agency of conspiring with the food industry to defraud consumers and even to endanger their health; FDA regulations, they argued, read like a catalogue of favors to special interests. Specifically, the agency was accused of allowing the sale of "enriched white flour" that is actually stripped of most nutrients, of permitting meat packers to increase the fat content at the expense...
Last week the pair made an enforced public appearance in New York. Studiously avoiding looking at each other, they appeared before Judge Edward McLean in federal district court. There they pleaded innocent to charges that they had used the Speaker's name and position to defraud the Government...
...arrested once more, this time on a Federal charge of using the mails to defraud. Now, his credentials were impeccable. Sure, he went to jail, but the Massachusetts legislature voted to pay him the remainder of his $20.000 annual salary anyway...
...weeks ago, 78 miners and miners' widows filed suit against the U.M.W. in federal court, asking for $75 million in damages. They charged the U.M.W. with conspiring with its welfare fund, with the union-owned National Bank of Washington and with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association to defraud them of their pensions through fiscal mismanagement and the manipulation of union funds for private gain...