Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough to live on; if he works part time and earns from $1,500 to $2,700 a year, he is docked 500 of social security for every dollar he earns. Above $2,700 he is "taxed" 100%. The result, said Dr. Wright, is either idleness or fraud, and at any level in the social or economic scale, "the illness of idleness" is deadly...
...names on them, and sold them to various underworld figures complete with such forged subsidiary identification as driver's licenses.* Gang members then traveled, ate, and charged lavishly, using the cards. Even when they are not liable, issuing companies almost always assume the financial burden of such fraud to maintain good relations with stores, hotels and restaurants who accept their cards. (But the credit-card companies may try to recover from a cardholder who has not informed them of a loss or theft.) The issuers are therefore understandably anxious to find heavier legal weapons to use against credit crooks...
Only 13 hours before Gary's polls opened, the panel of judges issued a six-part injunction to foil the fraud. More than 1,000 false names were ordered removed from the voters' lists, and officials were sternly warned to obey election laws. With rumors of violence spreading in some white neighborhoods, Gary's entire 268-man police force was put on a twelve-hour shift, and Democratic Governor Roger D. Branigin ordered 300 state troopers and 5,000 National Guardsmen to be ready to move into the city on 30 minutes' notice. As it turned...
Delusion & Fraud. A compromise $2.7 billion foreign-aid bill, authorizing around $500 million less than the President had originally requested, finally emerged from the recalcitrant, economy-minded House. It very nearly died in the process. Iowa's truculent H. R. Gross came within five votes of relegating the bill once again to a Senate-House conference with the stipulation that the U.S. cut off aid to Poland as long as that country continues to trade with North Viet Nam. By some adroit parliamentary legerdemain, House leaders delayed a final tally until they could persuade a crucial handful of members...
...week. Angrily, Sargent Shriver threatened to quit as head of the Office of Economic Opportunity if Congress will not give him the funds to do his job. "It would be a delusion to the poor," he said. "I don't think it would be advisable to continue a fraud...