Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...birth, and Social Security number, I can find out anything else I want to know." Just that much was enough for him to begin unraveling the finances of Robert D. Johnson, a former Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. employee involved in a $26 million wine-importing scheme exposed as a fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Beltrante got Johnson's personnel file from a source in the phone company. Then he made contact with half a dozen of his sources in banks and discovered that Johnson had several checking accounts and a few outstanding loans. From statements that...
Committee Against Health Fraud...
...four desperate characters, men with nothing to lose, are recruited to drive the explosive by truck over a road that traverses swamps, rain forests, mountains and deserts. Unlike Clouzot, Friedkin gives us extensive biographies on three of them-an Arab terrorist, a French banker who has been caught in fraud, a small-time hoodlum who has made the mistake of robbing the parish church of a Mafia boss (during which his brother, a priest, was wounded...
...work? Most of those indicted at one time had no jobs and legitimately received welfare payments. But after they were hired by federal, state or local government agencies, they left themselves on the welfare rolls. Since welfare recipients are regularly asked to fill out personal-status forms, the specific fraud usually entailed falsifying employment information...
...Fraud . .. deception ... playing with religious tradition." These harsh words, aimed at a new movement of Jewish-born Christians, spill forth from Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, normally one of Judaism's most temperate envoys to Christianity. His target: the so-called Messianic Jews, who insist that they can adopt a belief in Jesus as the Messiah and yet remain as Jewish as ever...