Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's ever-present sidekick, began as early as 1945, helping a perfume manufacturer get around wartime travel restrictions to Europe and receiving, for his trouble, a deep freezer. Also on the deep-freezer list was White House Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly-convicted only this year of tax fraud conspiracy during his White House days. In 1947 Truman denounced grain speculators for driving prices higher, soon discovered that his personal physician, Brigadier General Wallace Graham, was one of those speculators, to the tune...
...nice way of obtaining legal retainers from firms doing business with the Government, later went to jail for 18 months. Former Assistant BIR Commissioner Daniel Bolich was convicted of conspiracy to fix a tax case. Ernest M. Schino, a deputy collector in California, was convicted (two years) of tax fraud conspiracy. So was Patrick Mooney, the BIR's chief field deputy in Nevada. In all, some 200 BIR employees were involved in misconduct charges ranging from Hatch Act violations to monumental thievery...
...roundly booed by some of the 5,000 delegates and guests at the American Legion's national convention. The Legion listened silently as Stevenson angrily charged that "the claim that Democrats were responsible for the Korean war and that the Republicans stopped it ... is as miserable a fraud as has ever been used by a political party to confuse and embitter...
...just as timely today as it was in 1673. Despite its title, it is not just a portrait of a hypochondriac; nor is it just another volley in Moliere's life-long campaign against Baroque medical quackery and incompetence. The main theme of the play is the struggle between fraud and stupidity--a warning against too great a trust in alleged experts and arrant professionalism. Of the two dozen or so personages in the piece, only two are natural and honest human beings. The rest are all hypocrites or bluffers. Healthy Argan pretends to be riddled with illness; his inheritance...
...under current SEC practice, offerings of less than $300,000 are exempt from the full disclosure requirements of standard company issues. Furthermore, unlike the larger companies whose officers are liable under civil law for misstatements of fact, issuers of exempt securities are not held accountable except under federal fraud statutes...